Tag: "Fasting"

tag name:	Fasting	type:	Practices; Religion, general
web link:	bahai-library.com/tags/Fasting
related tags:	- Religion; – Badí‘ calendar; Devotion; Fasting prayers; Naw-Rúz; Obligatory prayer; Prayer
referring tags:	- Compilations on bahai.org; Age of maturity (children); Ayyám-i-Há; Exemption; Fasting prayers; Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Selected topics; Su'al va Javab (Questions and Answers, Kitáb-i-Aqdas)
Inventory subject:	Law of fasting; Prayer for fasting
notes:	"... Say: O people of the world! We have enjoined upon you fasting during a brief period, and at its close have designated for you Naw-Rúz as a feast. Thus hath the Daystar of Utterance shone forth above the horizon of the Book as decreed by Him Who is the Lord of the beginning and the end... The traveler, the ailing, those who are with child or giving suck, are not bound by the Fast; they have been exempted by God as a token of His grace. He, verily, is the Almighty, the Most Generous." – Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas, ¶16 "We have enjoined upon you fasting during a brief period" ¶16 "Fasting and obligatory prayer constitute the two pillars that sustain the revealed Law of God. Bahá’u’lláh in one of His Tablets affirms that He has revealed the laws of obligatory prayer and fasting so that through them the believers may draw nigh unto God. Shoghi Effendi indicates that the fasting period, which involves complete abstention from food and drink from sunrise till sunset, is …essentially a period of meditation and prayer, of spiritual recuperation, during which the believer must strive to make the necessary readjustments in his inner life, and to refresh and reinvigorate the spiritual forces latent in his soul. Its significance and purpose are, therefore, fundamentally spiritual in character. Fasting is symbolic, and a reminder of abstinence from selfish and carnal desires. Fasting is enjoined on all the believers once they attain the age of 15 and until they reach the age of 70 years. A summary of the detailed provisions concerning the law of fasting and of the exemptions granted to certain categories of people is contained in the Synopsis and Codification, section IV.B.1.–6. For a discussion of the exemptions from fasting see notes 14, 20, 30 and 31. The nineteen-day period of fasting coincides with the Bahá’í month of ‘Alá’, usually 2–20 March, immediately after the termination of the Intercalary Days (see notes 27 and 147), and is followed by the feast of Naw-Rúz (see note 26).1 Note: 1 On 10 July 2014, the Universal House of Justice announced the adoption of provisions for the common implementation of the Badí‘ calendar beginning at Naw-Rúz 172 (sunset 20 March 2015). The first day of the month of fasting now varies according to the day on which Naw-Rúz of the coming year falls." – Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Note 25 "All praise be unto God, Who hath revealed the law of obligatory prayer as a reminder to His servants, and enjoined on them the Fast that those possessed of means may become apprised of the woes and sufferings of the destitute." "... Fasting and obligatory prayer are as two wings to man’s life. Blessed be the one who soareth with their aid in the heaven of the love of God, the Lord of all worlds." "Even though outwardly the Fast is difficult and toilsome, yet inwardly it is bounty and tranquillity..." "Verily, I say, fasting is the supreme remedy and the most great healing for the disease of self and passion." – Bahá'u'lláh, The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, II, III, XVI and XVII "... obligatory prayer and fasting produce awareness and awakening in man, and are conducive to his protection and preservation from tests." – 'Abdu'l-Bahá, The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, VII "... Thou hast endowed every hour of these days with a special virtue, inscrutable to all except Thee, Whose knowledge embraceth all created things..." – Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'í Prayers "Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! These are the days whereon Thou hast bidden all men to observe the Fast, that through it they may purify their souls and rid themselves of all attachment to anyone but Thee, and that out of their hearts may ascend that which will be worthy of the court of Thy majesty... Grant, O my Lord, that this fast may become a river of life-giving waters and may yield the virtue wherewith Thou hast endowed it..." – Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'í Prayers "I beseech Thee, O my God, by Thy mighty Sign, and by the revelation of Thy grace amongst men, to cast me not away from the gate of the city of Thy presence, and to disappoint not the hopes I have set on the manifestations of Thy grace amidst Thy creatures. Thou seest me, O my God, holding to Thy Name, the Most Holy, the Most Luminous, the Most Mighty, the Most Great, the Most Exalted, the Most Glorious, and clinging to the hem of the robe to which have clung all in this world and in the world to come..." – Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'í Prayers "... Grant, O my Lord, that the fire of Thy love and the heat produced by the Fast enjoined by Thee may inflame them in Thy Cause, and make them to be occupied with Thy praise and with remembrance of Thee. Since Thou hast adorned them, O my Lord, with the ornament of the Fast prescribed by Thee, do Thou adorn them also with the ornament of Thine acceptance, through Thy grace and bountiful favor. For the doings of men are all dependent upon Thy good pleasure, and are conditioned by Thy behest. Shouldst Thou regard him who hath broken the Fast as one who hath observed it, such a man would be reckoned among them who from eternity had been keeping the Fast. And shouldst Thou decree that he who hath observed the Fast hath broken it, that person would be numbered with such as have caused the Robe of Thy Revelation to be stained with dust, and been far removed from the crystal waters of this living Fountain..." – Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'í Prayers, prayer for Naw-Rúz See also: – Bahai org: Fasting – The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting – Prayers for the Fast on bahai.org/library (in: Bahá'í Prayers)
bahaidata.org:	Q4246   ·   Links to Bahá'í wikis (bahai9, bahaipedia, etc.)
references:	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen-Day_Fast; www.bahaiquotes.com/subject/fast; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/compilations/importance-obligatory-prayer-fasting; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Fasting

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