Other attributes of perfection [in addition to “learning and
the cultural attainments of the mind”, and “justice and impartiality”] are to
fear God, to love God by loving His servants, to exercise mildness and
forbearance and calm, to be sincere, amenable, clement and compassionate; to
have resolution and courage, trustworthiness and energy, to strive and
struggle, to be generous, loyal, without malice, to have zeal and a sense of
honor, to be high-minded and magnanimous, and to have regard for the rights of
others. Whoever is lacking in these excellent human qualities is defective. If
We were to explain the inner meanings of each one of these attributes, “the
poem would take up seventy maunds [A measure of weight, in Ṭihrán equivalent to six and
two-thirds pounds of paper.]” (‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘The Secret of Divine
Civilization’)
