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Backbiting is "grievous error"; it "quencheth the light of the heart, and extinguisheth the life of the soul". (Iqan 193). 'Abdul-Baha asks us "to be silent concerning the faults of others, to pray for them and to help them through kindness, to correct their faults", and "to look always at the good and not at the bad". (Bne 80) This attitude of tolerance and loving-kindness, which Jesus Christ so emphatically enjoined upon His followers (compare Matt 7:1-5), is the only guarantee that in a community of people with such different backgrounds and education, love and harmony prevail instead of strife and dissension.
(43:2)
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