Obligatory
Prayer Exemption
compiled
by Research Department of the Universal House of Justice
With
reference to your question regarding the three daily obligatory
prayers: the Bahá'í worshipper is not required to
recite them all each day, but has to choose one, and should also
strictly conform to any instructions revealed by Bahá'u'lláh
in connection with its recital, such as the raising of hands,
various genuflexions, etc. Those who for some reason or other,
especially when physically unable to observe these regulations owing
to illness or some bodily defect, cannot conform to these
instructions, should preferably choose the short prayer, which is
exceedingly simple.
(7 December 1939 to an individual
believer on behalf of Shoghi Effendi)
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