may walk; and as for the worlds of the spirit, seek for yourself in them a warm faith that will kindle warmth in your heart, spread ease through your breast, and furnish you with a smile in the face of hardships and calamities.

And there is a third force, violent, harsh, and overbearing, which exempts nothing and wishes reverence for nothing: the spirit of criticism, which has worked its way into the depths and seeped into everything, even the sacred things. It is painful that the spirit of criticism prevailing in our age is a spirit inclined to demolition, wrecking, mockery, and derision more than to building, reform, appreciation, and respect. The critics of this age, sister, do not seek through criticism to see the faults of the existing civilization so that we may be more able to reform it than we were before. Rather they take delight in mentioning short-comings and enumerating defects and faults, to satisfy a sinful, devouring appetite that gnaws at their breasts, thirsting and never quenched, mocking at humanity's weakness and helplessness. And I reckon that a sinful spirit such as this will not have it in its power to offer us much good; the side of demolition is its end, whereas reform comes first... The critics of this age have taken up all our opinions, our thoughts, and our beliefs, and smashed them, declared them folly, and mocked them, and have offered us nothing else to set in their place. And since the human soul abhors emptiness, we have been driven, matters standing so, to fall greedily upon anything what-ever, to believe it, put faith in it, and credit it. And how many times, sister, have we tasted the bitterness of disappointment and failure when the critics came at us anew and mocked those very things we had schooled ourselves to believe in! It is as though they were devils who had covenanted among themselves that we should hold no belief and have faith in nothing. So beware, sister, of the devils and the tor-mentors; befriend them with care and caution, keep company with

them with inward reserve, and do not allow them access to your opinions on life except in measure, or to press deep into your thoughts except by calculation. Criticism is useful, sister, but on condition that its aim be reform and its motive the good spirit and the desire to help. If you come upon critics such as these — and they are a rare few — hold fast to them, listen to them, and act upon their counsel. Shall I point them out to you? They are the prophets — so read what the prophets have left behind!

Three forces are at work in this age of ours, and we do not know the extent of what we may be able to do with it. But I see it as laid upon me, sister, to warn you, for you have been called today to play your part on the stage of the rising East with all your powers

of mind, of character, and of spirit. And remember that the part played by moral values and spiritual visions in the life of nations is very much greater than the part performed by science. Have you not seen the West — when its mind flourished while its spirit stood empty and its morals went bankrupt — what its fate was, and to what a fate it dragged the whole world behind it? Walk the corners of the earth with a mind filled with the light of science, not with its fire; with a clear gaze fixed upon its goal, knowing what it wants and what it does not want; with an upright, lofty, firm character that cannot be shaken; and with a spirit aflame with the warmth of faith.

— Iraq —

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