ʻAbdu'l-Bahá explained in one of his talks that The Seven Valleys is a guide for human conduct, that one should search out one's "own imperfections and not think of the imperfections of anybody else", to "strive to be free from imperfections" and that "nothing is more fruitful for man than the knowledge of his own shortcomings".[8][9] Shoghi Effendi called The Seven Valleys Baháʼu'lláh's "greatest mystical composition."[10]