tag name Obligatory prayer type: Practices; Religion, general; Writings, general web link bahai-library.com/tags/Obligatory_prayer related tags - Prayer texts; – Prayers and Tablets with special potency; – Requisites for spiritual growth; Prayer referring tags - Compilations on bahai.org; Ablutions; Age of maturity (children); Exemption; Fasting; Genuflections; Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Selected topics; Morning, noon, evening; Obligatory prayer, Long; Obligatory prayer, Medium; Obligatory prayer, Short; Obligatory prayer (lost); Qiblih; Su'al va Javab (Questions and Answers, Kitáb-i-Aqdas) Inventory subject Law of obligatory prayer notes "The daily recital of one of three specific prayers revealed by Bahá'u'lláh is binding on Bahá'ís from the age of maturity, which is fifteen years. The believer is free to choose one of the three prayers, to be said privately. The short obligatory prayer is to be recited once a day at noon (between noon and sunset), the medium obligatory prayer three times daily, and the long obligatory prayer once in twenty-four hours. The Kitáb-i-Aqdas specifies other requirements and exceptions related to the obligatory prayers, including the performance of ablutions and facing the Qiblih while praying."
– from A Basic Bahá'í Dictionary (1989)
See also:
–Compilation The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting (2000)
–Compilation Prayer and Devotional Life (2019)
– Covenant Library Unified Index
– Texts of the obligatory prayers on bahai.org/library (in: Bahá'í Prayers)
– Bahá'í Prayers in many languages (in more than 100 languages; on bahaiprayers.net)
– Long Obligatory Prayer: Printable, Foldable Version (in more than 50 languages)
selected quotations
(authoritative sources)These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts:
"We have enjoined obligatory prayer upon you" ¶6 "In Arabic, there are several words for prayer. The word “ṣalát,” which appears here in the original, refers to a particular category of prayers, the recitation of which at specific times of the day is enjoined on the believers. To differentiate this category of prayers from other kinds, the word has been translated as “obligatory prayer.”
Bahá’u’lláh states that “obligatory prayer and fasting occupy an exalted station in the sight of God” (Q&A 93). ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá affirms that such prayers are “conducive to humility and submissiveness, to setting one’s face towards God and expressing devotion to Him,” and that through these prayers “man holdeth communion with God, seeketh to draw near unto Him, converseth with the true Beloved of his heart, and attaineth spiritual stations.”...
The details of the law concerning obligatory prayer are summarized in section IV.A.1.–17. of the Synopsis and Codification."
– Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Note 3
"All praise be unto God, Who hath revealed the law of obligatory prayer as a reminder to His servants..."
– Bahá'u'lláh, The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, extract II (Inventory ID's)
"In the realm of worship, fasting and obligatory prayer constitute the two mightiest pillars of God’s holy Law..."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, extract II"... The wisdom of obligatory prayer is this: That it causeth a connection between the servant and the True One, because at that time man with all his heart and soul turneth his face towards the Almighty, seeking His association and desiring His love and companionship. For a lover, there is no greater pleasure than to converse with his beloved, and for a seeker, there is no greater bounty than intimacy with the object of his desire... 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, extract VII"The obligatory prayers are binding inasmuch as they are conducive to humility and submissiveness, to setting one’s face towards God and expressing devotion to Him. Through such prayer man holdeth communion with God, seeketh to draw near unto Him, converseth with the true Beloved of his heart, and attaineth spiritual stations.
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, from a Tablet—translated from the Persian, in compilation Prayer and Devotional Life, no. 57
"These daily prayers have been endowed with a special potency which only those who regularly recite them can adequately appreciate. The friends should therefore endeavour to make daily use of these prayers, whatever the peculiar circumstances and conditions of their life."
– From a letter dated 23 February 1939 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to individual believers, in compilation Prayer and Devotional Life, no. 63“The daily obligatory prayers are three in number. ... The believer is entirely free to choose any one of these three prayers, but is under the obligation of reciting one of them, and in accordance with any specific directions with which they may be accompanied.”
— from a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, quoted in Lights of Guidance, no. 1529"The daily prayers are to be said each one for himself, aloud or silent makes no difference."
– From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, quoted in Lights of Guidance, no. 1502"Bahá’u’lláh has reduced all ritual and form to an absolute minimum in His Faith. The few forms that there are—like those associated with the two longer obligatory daily prayers—are only symbols of the inner attitude. There is a wisdom in them, and a great blessing, but we cannot force ourselves to understand or feel these things, that is why He gave us also the very short and simple prayer, for those who did not feel the desire to perform the acts associated with the other two."
– from a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, dated 24 June 1949, cited in The Importance of Prayer, Meditation and the Devotional Attitude
"As regards obligatory prayer, this should be recited by each believer individually, albeit its performance is not dependent upon the availability of a private place. In other words, obligatory prayer may be performed alike at home or in the Temple, which latter is a public place, but on condition that each believer recite it individually. As for devotions other than obligatory prayer, if these be chanted jointly and with a pleasant and affecting melody, this would be most acceptable."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, cited in a letter dated 15 February 1998, by the Universal House of Justice to an individual (AB03276)
bahaidata.org Q4639 · Links to Bahá'í wikis (bahai9, bahaipedia, etc.) references en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obligatory_Baháʼí_prayers; www.bahaiprayers.app/category?id=101&l=en
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