Your love and kindness must be real ...

not merely forbearance, for forbearance, if not of the heart, is hypocrisy.
Such counsel appears unintelligible and self-contradictory until we realize that while the outer carnal man may be a hater and ill-wisher, there is in everyone an inner, spiritual nature which is the real man, from whom only love and goodwill can proceed.

It is to this real, inner man in each of our neighbors that we must direct our thought and love.
When he awakens into activity, the outer man will be transformed and renewed.
The Sin-covering Eye On no subject are the Baha'i teaching more imperative and uncompromising than on the requirement to abstain from faultfinding.

Christ spoke very strongly on the same subject, but it has now become usual to regard the Sermon on the Mount as embodying "Counsels of Perfection" which the ordinary Christian cannot be expected to live up to.

Both Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha are at great pains to make it clear that on this subject They mean all They say.