backbiting is forbidden, HW 26

26. O SON OF BEING!
How couldst thou forget thine own faults and busy thyself with the faults of others? Whoso doeth this is accursed of Me.

 (Baha’u’llah, The Arabic Hidden Words)

There is nothing worse than being at a community meeting that turns into a complaint session. We are to be loving friends to one another, even to the point of giving our LIVES for one another! People also pick & choose which laws to focus on, that other people seem to be breaking. In the Baha’i Faith, backbiting is forbidden. So when someone asks you, as a Baha’i, what is forbidden in the Baha’i Faith? I’d like our first answer to be: Backbiting, talking about other people behind their backs, that’s what is forbidden.

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