خطبات طاہر (جلد 10۔ 1991ء) — Page 1027
1027 if you do not always make an effort to unite first your own brothers and then the rest of the mankind۔So the message is very profound and very important۔Hazrat Musleh Moud R۔A۔once wrote a poem on this subject۔He said" those who want my love, those who want me to love them, they should behave like great people, like people above small petty things۔" He goes on developing the theme and says "that those who fight with each other, who pickup quarrels for small insults whether they are meant or not meant, sometime the insults are just imaginary, no body meant to heart you۔Who cannot forgive there brothers, who think small and act small۔Who sow the seed of discontent"۔Having developed this theme he says "such people are not mine۔I don't belong to them۔They don't belong to me because God has made me for big things and I can not descend to such depths as to love such people who disintegrate the society۔I have nothing to do with them۔So if you care, at all, for my love, for my regard then behave in a manner that I willy-nilly love you۔" "I love those who are noble minded, who have broader visions, who have greater capacity to forget and to live in harmony with others even if they are offended۔They know how to forgive, they know how to forget, and yet despite the fact that they are the ones who have been offended they seek forgiveness from their offenders instead of waiting for them to come to their doors and knock at their doors and say please forgive us۔Those who have been offended they take the initiative in their own hands, they go and ask