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of government to new heights of perfection. They
shine in the learned world like lamps of knowledge;
their thinking, their attitudes and their acts demonstrate
their patriotism and their concern for the country's advancement.
Content with a modest stipend, they consecrate
their days and nights to the execution of important
duties and the devising of methods to insure the
progress of the people. Through the effectiveness of
their wise counsel, the soundness of their judgment,
they have ever caused their government to become an
example to be followed by all the governments of the
world. They have made their capital city a focal center
of great world undertakings, they have won distinction,
attaining a supreme degree of personal eminence, and
reaching the loftiest heights of repute and character.
Again, there are those famed and accomplished men
of learning, possessed of praiseworthy qualities and vast
erudition, who lay hold on the strong handle of the
fear of God and keep to the ways of salvation. In the
mirror of their minds the forms of transcendent realities
are reflected, and the lamp of their inner vision
derives its light from the sun of universal knowledge.
They are busy by night and by day with meticulous
research into such sciences as are profitable to mankind,
and they devote themselves to the training of students
of capacity. It is certain that to their discerning taste,
the proffered treasures of kings would not compare
with a single drop of the waters of knowledge, and
mountains of gold and silver could not outweigh the
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