onvicted party would perforce
give up all hope of reopening the case, and would then be relieved on that
score and would go back to looking after his own concerns and those of
others.

Since the primary means for securing the peace and tranquillity of the
people, and the most effective agency for the advancement of high and low
alike, is this all-important matter, it is incumbent on those learned
members of the great consultative assembly who are thoroughly versed in
the Divine law to evolve a single, direct and definite procedure for the
settlement of litigations. This instrument should then be published
throughout the country by order of the king, and its provisions should be
strictly adhered to. This all-important question requires the most urgent
attention.

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.

The third requirement of perfection is to arise with complete sincerity
and purity of purpose to educate the masses: to exert the utmost effort to
instruct them in the various branches of learning and useful sciences, to
encourage the development of modern progress, to widen the scope of
commerce, industry and the arts, to further such measures as will increase
the people's wealth. For the mass of the population is uninformed as to
these vital agencies which would constitute an immediate remedy for
society's chronic ills.

It is essential that scholars and the spiritually learned should undertake
in all sincerity and purity of intent and for the sake of God alone, to
counsel and exhort the masses and clarify their vision with that collyrium
which is knowledge. For today the people out of the depths of their
superstition, imagine that any individual who believes in God and His
signs, and in the Prophets and Divine Revelations and law