The second attribute of perfection is justice and
impartiality. This means to have no regard for one’s own personal benefits and
selfish advantages, and to carry out the laws of God without the slightest
concern for anything else. It means to see one’s self as only one of the
servants of God, the All-Possessing, and except for aspiring to spiritual
distinction, never attempting to be singled out from the others. It means to
consider the welfare of the community as one’s own. It means, in brief, to
regard humanity as a single individual, and one’s own self as a member of that
corporeal form, and to know of a certainty that if pain or injury afflicts any
member of that body, it must inevitably result in suffering for all the rest. (‘Abdu’l-Baha,
‘The Secret of Divine Civilization’)
