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| Backbiting |
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| Saying mean or spiteful things about a person behind his back. |
| Backbiting and calumny are forbidden by Bahá'u'lláh in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and backbiting is described by Him as ‘grievous error . . . inasmuch as backbiting quencheth the light of the heart, and extinguisheth the life of the soul.'3 |
| ‘Abdu'l-Bahá wrote of the effects of backbiting on the Bahá'í community: ‘If any soul speak ill of an absent one, the only result will clearly be this: he will dampen the zeal of the friends and tend to make them indifferent. For backbiting is divisive, it is the leading cause among the friends of a disposition to withdraw.'4 He goes on to say how backbiting can be stopped: ‘If any individual should speak ill of one who is absent, it is incumbent on his hearers, in a spiritual and friendly manner, to stop him, and say in effect: would this detraction serve any useful purpose?'5 |
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