| # | ABU2240 - `Abdu'l-Bahá - 110 words - Persian |
| title | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-08-10 |
| opening, original |
فقیر صابر بهتر از غنی شاکر است اما فقیر شاکر بهتر از فقیر صابر است و بهتر از همه غنی نتفق است |
| opening, English |
The patient poor are better than the thankful rich. But the thankful poor are better than the patient poor. And the best of all is the rich-giver who is free from temptations or tests, who becomes the cause of the happiness of mankind.... At the time of his death a king longed for the station of a poor man |
| in catalog | Mahmúd's Diary |
| publications | KHMT.194x, MAS5.227, BDA1.185.10 |
| translations | SW_v19#12 p.379-380, MHMD1.201, ROB2.281, STAB#042 |
| subjects (colored as in PDF) |
Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Stories; anecdotes; Thankfulness; gratitude; The economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving |
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