Gossip

Gossip has no place in the Bahá'í community

"Gossip and backbiting have no place in the Bahá’í community; nor do judgemental attitudes and self-righteousness."

(From a letter dated 23 April 2013 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to a National Spiritual Assembly, National Spiritual Assembly (compilation 2023), no. 87)

The Believers Need More Peace-Makers Circulating Among Them--A Function of the Older and the More Mature Bahá'ís

"What the believers need is not only, as you state, to really study the teachings, but also to have more peace-makers circulating among them. Unfortunately, not only average people, but average Bahá'ís, are very immature; gossip, trouble-making, criticism, seem easier than the putting into practice of love, constructive words and cooperation. It is one of the functions of the older and the more mature Bahá'ís to help the weaker ones to iron out their difficulties and learn to really function and live like true believers!"

(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, January 11, 1950, in Lights of Guidance, no. 310)

See also

• Backbiting
• Duty as individual to raise matters of other believers to Assembly