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235 These are not the only verses enjoining righteousness ; rather, the Holy Qur’an enjoins this in numerous places. The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said: ‘In the Holy Qur’an more emphasis has been laid on commandments to adopt virtue and righteousness than on any other commandment. The reason for this is that righteousness bestows the strength to resist all vice and urges progress towards all good. Ri ghteousness is in all circumstances is a means of protection that guarantees security and is a citadel for safeguarding against all harm. A righteous person can avoid many vain and harmful contentions that often lead other people to ruin. They sow the seed of dissension among the people through their hasty actions and suspicions and lay themselves open to objection. ’ ( Ayyam - us - Sulh, Ruhani Khaza’in , Vol. 14, p. 342) The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) further says that man’s entire spiritual beauty is i n treading the fine path ways of righteousness. ‘ The spiritual beauty of man is to walk along all the fine ways of righteousness. They are the attractive features of spiritual beauty. It is obvious that to be mindful of the trusts of God Almighty, and to fu lfil all the covenants of faith, and to employ all faculties and limbs both overt, like eyes and ears and hands and feet and others like them, and those that are