A scholar was invited to dinner one evening where he overheard two people engaged in backbiting at the dinner table.  He turned to them and said, “Brothers, it is interesting that most people start their dinner with bread but you two have started your dinner by eating the flesh of your dead brother.”

(Read on pg 67, Dr. Gohar Mushtaq, The Intelligent Heart, The Pure Heart. Ta-Ha Publishers. London: 2006.)