backbiting
5 stories on this theme.
The Sin-Covering Eye
On no subject are the Bahá’í teaching more imperative and uncompromising than on the requirement to abstain from faultfinding.
Hidden Word, Persian 44: O Companion of My Throne
The forty-fourth Persian Hidden Word — Bahá'u'lláh's counsel to hear, see and speak no evil, to magnify not the faults of others, and to live the fleeting days of this life with a stainless mind and a sanctified nature.
Christ and the Dead Animal
In a Tablet about backbiting, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá tells how Christ, passing a dead animal with His apostles, saw only the whiteness of its teeth, and calls this the conduct of the real Bahá’ís.
May Maxwell Learns to Speak No Evil
On her 1898–99 pilgrimage May Bolles found joy in the Master’s presence, then spoke unkindly of a fellow believer. His gentle, compassionate gaze at supper moved her to tears, and His smile restored her.
Backbiting Is Divisive
It is daybreak, and from the rising-point of the invisible realms of God, the light of unity is dawning; and streaming and beating down from the hidden world of the Kingdom of oneness there cometh a flood of abounding grace.