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Tag "Fasting"

tag name: Fasting type: Practices; Religion, general
web link: Fasting
references: bahai9.com/wiki/Fast; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen-Day_Fast; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/compilations/importance-obligatory-prayer-fasting
related tags: * Religion (general); Fasting prayers
referring tags: Age of maturity (children); Ayyám-i-Há; Fasting prayers; Munajathay-i-Siyam (Prayers for Fasting)

"Fasting" appears in:

1.   from the main catalog (33 results; expand)

  1. Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks (2018/2023). — 167 selections, updated August 2023.
  2. Paul Fieldhouse. Bahá'í: Religion and Diet (2003). — Short overview of fasting, feast, and diet.
  3. Bahá'í Fast: A compilation (2018). — Description and purposes of the Fast; how to fast; additional insights.
  4. Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Bahá'í Fast, The: Warwick Leaflets (2012). — A summary of the laws and principles of the Fast.
  5. Anonymous, comp. Bible Stories and Themes in the Bahá'í Writings and Guidance (2021). — Baha'i interpretation of Biblical stories and topics.
  6. Rúhíyyih Khánum. Dawn Fasting Prayer (1982). — Essay from ‘Amatu’l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum's book The Desire of the World.
  7. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history (1982-2023). — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
  8. Mirza Asad'Ullah. Ameen Ullah Fareed, trans. Explanations Concerning Sacred Mysteries (1902). — Essays on the book of Daniel, and on the mysteries of: daily sacrifice, the kingdom, death, prayers ...
  9. Christopher Buck. Fast, Bahá'í (March 2 (2011-09).
  10. John Walbridge. Fasting (1996).
  11. William P. Collins. Fasting: The mercy and grace of God (1998). — Brief overview of the purpose and backround of fasting.
  12. Jamsheed K. Choksy. Fasting among Zoroastrians, Manicheans, and Bahá'ís (1999). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  13. Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Fasting and the Bahá'í Fast: Warwick Leaflets (1993/2001).
  14. Ted Slavin. Fasting period ends Sunday (2011-03-19). — The Fast helps us remember the goals of eradicating poverty and achieving gender equality.
  15. Paul Fieldhouse. Food, Justice, and the Baha'i Faith (2005). — PhD Dissertation tests the claim that "food," both literal and metaphorical, provides a practical wa...
  16. Hooper Dunbar. Forces of Our Time: Lecture Series (2011-04). — Six lectures series at Bosch Baha'i School, April 15-17 2011.
  17. Universal House of Justice. Laws of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, Further Application of (1999-12-28). — Announcement to the Baha'i world that all elements of the laws dealing with obligatory prayer and fa...
  18. Abdu'l-Bahá. Light of the World: Selected Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá (2021). — Tablets of ‘Abdul-Baha describing aspects of the life of Baha’u’llah including the tribulation...
  19. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice. Helen Bassett Hornby, comp. Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File (1988). — The classic Baha'i reference book. This is its first online edition.
  20. Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl Gulpáygání. Juan Cole, trans. Miracles and Metaphors (1981). — Collection of essays on metaphysical topics and Baha'i answers to old religious controversies: are t...
  21. Anil Sarwal. Miracles in Religion: A Study of the miraculous in religion in context of the Baha'i Faith (1996-11). — Guide to spirituality, offers insights on the purpose of religion, experiences of Himalayan masters,...
  22. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá. Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, The Importance of (2000-09-27).
  23. Duane L. Herrmann. Observing the Fast When You Are Not to Abstain from Food (1989). — What meaning can the Fast have if one is not able to observe it? The spiritual and symbolic natures ...
  24. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá. Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Oracion Obligatoria y el Ayuno, La Importancia de la (2000-05).
  25. Rúhíyyih Khánum. Prayers of Bahá'u'lláh, The (1945). — Essay about various prayers and meditations of Baha'u'llah.
  26. Bahá'u'lláh. Adib Masumian, trans, Pierre Daoust, trans. Prière révélée par Bahá'u'lláh le premier jour du Jeûne (2020). — Provisional French translation by Daoust from an English rendering by Masumian of Baha'u'llah's pray...
  27. Denis MacEoin. Rituals in Babism and Baha'ism (1994). — On practices of prayer, invocations, talismans, jewelry, fasting, purity, birth, death, marriage, fe...
  28. Dawn Staudt. Songs of the Spirit: A Collection of Poems Written during the Fast 2003 and 2004 (2004).
  29. Adib Masumian, trans. Translation List: Provisional Translations of Baháʼí Literature (2009-2023). — Index to talks, letters, and other items translated from Persian and Arabic to English by Adib Masum...
  30. Stephen Lambden. Translation of the Arabic Du'á' al-Sahar (The Dawn Supplication) or Du'á' al-Bahá' (The Supplication of Splendour) with Select Expository Scriptural Writings of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, A (2023). — Translation of and commentary on the Shi'i "dawn supplication" for the Islamic month of Ramadan, and...
  31. Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Twelve Table Talks Given by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in 'Akká (2019). — Talks from 1904-1907.
  32. Bijan Samali. Universality of the Laws of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, The (1996). — The laws of the Aqdas focus on the individual; are applicable to everyone; facilitate the realisatio...
  33. National Youth Committee, comp. Unrestrained as the Wind: A Life Dedicated to Bahá'u'lláh (1985). — Compilation of quotations on topics of especial interest to Baha'i youth.

2.   from the Chronology (1 result)

  1. 1999-12-28 — In a message from the Universal House of Justice addressed to the Baha'is of the world, some laws of...
 
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