Tablet catalog
The Causes of the Differences in Human Character
OOL 05 00120 Phelps: AB 00117
AB 00117•‘Abdu’l-Bahá•Persian
The Causes of the Differences in Human Character
Some Answered Questions #057
990 words

اخلاق فطری و اخلاق ارثی و اخلاق اکتسابی که بتربیت حاصل گردد

Question:
How many kinds of character are there in man and what are the causes of the differences and variations among them?
Translation:
Official translation
There is the innate character, the inherited character, and the acquired character, which is gained through education.
# Name Source Translations
#1 Some Answered Questions, The Outward and the Inward Powers of Man Source Persian Translations Arabic
# Name Source Translations
#1 مفاوضات - القوى الجسمانية والقوى المعنوية Source Persian Translations English
# Name Source Translations Resources
#1 مفاوضات - قوای جسمانيّه و قوای معنويّه Source Persian Translations English Arabic Resources
MFD. Mufáviḍát-i-‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Mir'at, 1993. Original Persian text of SAQ. In this catalog each of the 84 chapters is given its own ID.  https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/ and https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1541.pdf
MFD#57
https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-153.html
SAQ. Some Answered Questions. Revised translation, U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 2014. English translation of MFD. In this catalog each of the 84 chapters is given its own entry. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative- texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/
SAQ#57
http://www.bahai.org/r/555562300
BWF. Bahá’í World Faith: Selected Writings of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1943. https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up
BWF.318-321
https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up