No Bahá'í
must open his lips in blaming another one, he must regard backbiting as the
greatest sin of humanity, for it is clearly revealed in all the Tablets of
Bahá'u'lláh that backbiting and faultfinding are the fiendish instruments and
suggestions of Satan and the destroyers of the foundation of man. A believer
will not blame any soul among the strangers, how much less against the friends.
Faultfinding and backbiting are the characteristics of the weak minds and not
the friends. Self-exaltation is the attribute of the stranger and not of the
Beloved.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet, Star of the West, vol. 2, no. 4, May 17,
1911)
