ABU 2240••Persian
Reported Utterance
Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-08-10
110 words
فقیر صابر بهتر از غنی شاکر است اما فقیر شاکر بهتر از فقیر صابر است و بهتر از همه غنی نتفق است
Translation:
Provisional translation
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