It is related that His Holiness
Christ - May my life be a sacrifice to Him! – one day, accompanied by His
apostles, passed by the corpse of a dead animal. One
of them said: 'How putrid has this become!' The other exclaimed: 'How it is
deformed!' A third cried out: 'What a stench! How cadaverous looking!' But His
Holiness Christ said: 'Look at its teeth! How white they are!' Consider, that
He did not look at all at the defects of that animal;
nay, rather, He searched well until He found the beautiful white teeth. He
observed only the whiteness of the teeth and
overlooked entirely the deformity of the body, the dissolution of its organs
and the bad odor.
This is
the attribute of the children of the Kingdom. This is the conduct and the
manner of the real Baha’is. I hope that all the believers will attain to this
lofty station. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a Tablet, Star of the West, vol. 4, no. 11,
September 27, 1913; ‘Lights of Guidance’)
