sin-covering

Updated: May 9, 2025

But then Christ Himself spoke, and He told them: ‘Look at that dog’s teeth! How gleaming white!’ The Messiah’s sin-covering gaze did not for a moment dwell upon the repulsiveness of that carrion. The one element of that dead dog’s carcass which was not abomination was the teeth: and Jesus looked upon their brightness.

`Abdu'l-Bahá - Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá

When he awakens into activity, the outer man will be transformed and renewed. The Sin-covering Eye On no subject are the Bahá’í teaching more imperative and uncompromising than on the requirement to abstain from faultfinding.

J. E. (John Ebenezer) Esslemont - Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era