No Baha’i 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 Baha’u’llah 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. It is our hope that the
believers and the maid-servants of the Merciful in America may become the cause
of the union of the East and the West, and unfurl the Standard of the Oneness
of the Realm of Humanity. - ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Star of the West, Vol. II, No. 4, May
17, 1911)
