…it [backbiting]
is obviously one of the foremost obligations for Baha'is to set their faces
against this practice. Even if what is said against another person be true, the
mentioning of his faults to others still comes under the category of
backbiting, and is forbidden.
(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the
National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles, February 11, 1925; compilation:
Lights of Guidance)
