Baha'u'llah & the New Era 1970 - J. Esslemont
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The Sin-covering Eye
On no subject are the Baha'i teaching more imperative and uncompromising than on the requirement to abstain from faultfinding. Christ spoke very strongly on the same subject, but it has now become usual to regard the Sermon on the Mount as embodying "Counsels of Perfection" which the ordinary Christian cannot be expected to live up to. Both Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha are at great pains to make it clear that on this subject They mean all They say. We read in the Hidden Words: (56:7)

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