December 28

That seeker [1] should also regard backbiting as grievous error, and keep himself aloof from its dominion, inasmuch as backbiting quencheth the light of the heart, and extinguisheth the life of the soul. 
- Baha’u’llah  (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
[1] The seeker in search of “the Ancient of Days”