Short Obligatory Prayer

Short Obligatory Prayer: Bahá’í prayers, revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, in the authorized English translations — free to read, print and share. It belongs to obligatory prayer on bahaiprayers.ca.

TO BE RECITED ONCE IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, AT NOON. I bear witness, O…

Bahá’u’lláhAuthorized translation Bahá’í Reference Library

TO BE RECITED ONCE IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, AT NOON.

I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee.  I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. 

There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

Bahá’u’lláh

“By ‘morning’, ‘noon’, and ‘evening,’ mentioned in connection with…

Bahá’u’lláhAuthorized translation Bahá’í Reference Library

“By ‘morning’, ‘noon’, and ‘evening,’ mentioned in connection with the Obligatory Prayers, is meant respectively the intervals between sunrise and noon, between noon and sunset, and from sunset until two hours after sunset.” 

—Synopsis and Codification of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 36 

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Kitáb-i-Aqdas
The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Most Holy Book, is Bahá’u’lláh’s book of laws, which ordains the obligatory prayers and the Fast. Authoritative source

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