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Tag "Obligatory prayer"

tag name: Obligatory prayer type: Practices
web link: Obligatory_prayer
references: bahaipedia.org/Obligatory_Prayer; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/compilations/importance-obligatory-prayer-fasting
related tags: * Prayer texts; Prayer
referring tags: Ablutions; Age of maturity (children); Genuflections; Obligatory prayer, Long; Obligatory prayer, Medium; Obligatory prayer, Short; Qiblih

"Obligatory prayer" appears in:

1.   from the main catalog (54 results; expand)

  1. Bahá'u'lláh. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh (2018/2023). — 80 selections, updated August 2023.
  2. Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks (2018/2023). — 167 selections, updated August 2023.
  3. Ross Woodman. Arc of Ascent: The Purpose of Physical Reality II, by John S. Hatcher: Review (1994).
  4. Universal House of Justice. Bahá'í Obligatory Prayer and the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (1998-02-15). — Obligatory prayer may be performed at home or in the Temple — in private or in public — but on c...
  5. Universal House of Justice. Consultation, Portraits, Rakahs, Murtus, and Unknown Language (2009/2010/2018). — Three replies from the Research Department to an individual, dated 2009, 2010 and 2018, on a variety...
  6. Universal House of Justice. Contacting the Universal House of Justice; Obligatory Prayer, Greatest Name, Exemptions (1998-01-02). — Procedures on contacting the Universal House of Justice; memorandum on obligatory prayer, reciting t...
  7. Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Daily Devotions: Warwick Leaflets (1993/2001). — A summary of Baha'i laws on daily obligatory prayer, reading the Writings, and meditation.
  8. Ismael Velasco. Entering into Obligatory Prayer: Introduction and Commentary (2006). — Overview of Baha'i prayer, its historical background, and a detailed commentary on the preamble to t...
  9. Universal House of Justice. Exemption from Obligatory Prayer for the Sick (2000-03-27).
  10. 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 ...
  11. Hooper Dunbar. Forces of Our Time: Lecture Series (2011-04). — Six lectures series at Bosch Baha'i School, April 15-17 2011.
  12. Universal House of Justice, Ismael Velasco, Peter Terry, Michael W. Sours. Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book): The Obligatory Prayers (2000-11-28).
  13. 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...
  14. Universal House of Justice. Legislative Responsibilities of the Universal House of Justice Regarding Obligatory Prayers, Guardian's Statement on (1995-06-25). — Brief note about which aspects of obligatory prayer the House may one day legislate on.
  15. 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...
  16. 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.
  17. Long Obligatory Prayer: Printable, Foldable Version (2021). — Layout of the Long Obligatory Prayer designed to be printed, trimmed to pocket size, and foldable. A...
  18. Ali Nakhjavani. Long Obligatory Prayer, The (2000-03). — Notable talk from March 2000 by Ali Nakhjavani, who served on the Universal House of Justice from 19...
  19. Universal House of Justice. Meditation, Prayer, and Spiritualization (1983-09-01). — Practicing personal spirituality and methods for achieving spiritual growth.
  20. Virginia Orbison. Notes on Words of the Guardian (1956). — Ten pages of notes, preserved as an appendix to Orbison's lengthy manuscript "Diary of a Pilgrimage ...
  21. 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).
  22. Brett Zamir. Obligatory Prayer Reminder Script: Applescript code for Entourage 2004 (Macintosh only) (2005). — Microsoft Entourage apple script to remind one to say the obligatory prayer before sunset. Script re...
  23. Universal House of Justice. Obligatory Prayer, Ablutions, and Repetition of the Greatest Name (2004-06-06). — On recitation of the specific verses associated with the performance of ablutions for the medium Obl...
  24. Shoghi Effendi, Research Department of the Universal House of Justice. Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Obligatory Prayer, Exemption from (n.d.).
  25. Universal House of Justice. Obligatory Prayer, Questions about (2000-11-28). — Answers to four questions about reciting prayers at meetings; changing language gender; repetition o...
  26. Universal House of Justice, Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi. Obligatory Prayers and Ablutions (1991-01-02). — Letter from the House on missing prayers due to ailment, an insecure environment, or an inability to...
  27. 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).
  28. Ted Brownstein. Out of Jewish Roots: Studies of Prayer Patterns in Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Bahá'í Worship (2006). — An exploration of the development of liturgy and personal prayer patterns from its roots in Judaism ...
  29. Bill Washington. Passing Comments on the Long Obligatory Prayer of Bahá'u'lláh, Some (1996). — The purpose of prayer to "cast out" from within our heart our attachment to the things of this mate...
  30. Persian Translation of Arabic verses (2018). — There are no authorized Persian translations of any of the Arabic Writings; personal translations ar...
  31. Universal House of Justice. Physical disability preventing genuflections of Long Obligatory Prayer (2000-10-08). — How can a believer with physical disabilities say the Long Obligatory Prayer, which requires genufle...
  32. Báb, The, Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi. Universal House of Justice, comp. Prayer and Devotional Life (2019-02). — A compilation to assist Baha'is in a time when, as the House says in its cover letter, "devotional a...
  33. John Walbridge. Prayer and Worship (1996). — An overview of devotional practices and prayers in Babism and the Baha'i Faith.
  34. Julio Savi, Faezeh Mardani. Prayers and rituals in the Bahá'í Faith: Introduction to A Tablet to Jináb-i-Mullá 'Alí-Akbar fí Ardi'l-Álif (2008). — A tablet of Baha'u'llah to one of the Babis to renew his faith before He had revealed his mission; i...
  35. Rúhíyyih Khánum. Prayers of Bahá'u'lláh, The (1945). — Essay about various prayers and meditations of Baha'u'llah.
  36. Universal House of Justice. Qiblih, Determining the direction of (2010-07-15). — Guidance on how best to ascertain the direction of the Qiblih, the focus to which the faithful turn ...
  37. Roshan Danesh. Reflections on the Concept of Law in the Bahá'í Faith, Some (2014). — The concept of law in the Baha’i Faith; its early Islamic context; the nature of legal language an...
  38. Steven Scholl. Remembrance of God, The: An Invocation Technique in Sufism and the Writings of The Báb and Bahá'u'lláh (1983-12). — Dhikru'llah, the invocation or "remembrance" of God, is a Sufi technique of chanting or repeating pr...
  39. Denis MacEoin. Rituals in Babism and Baha'ism (1994). — On practices of prayer, invocations, talismans, jewelry, fasting, purity, birth, death, marriage, fe...
  40. Todd Lawson. Role of Wonder in Creating Identity, The (2023). — The term badi', "wondrous" or "new," is used dozens of times by the Bab in his proclamatory work the...
  41. Margaret Caton. Sacred Refrains: Arabic and Persian Dhikrs in the Bahá'í Community (2024). — introduction to dhikr (remembrances) and the use of music in Baha'i spiritual practices; 74 recordin...
  42. Christopher White. Searching for God in time and memory: An examination of Bahá'í prayer as 'remembrance' (2002). — Describes Baha'i prayer practices as a way to understand the human self and the Divine and overcomin...
  43. Abu'l-Qásim Faizí. Seven Valleys, The: Notes from a Deepening Class (1966). — Lengthy notes from a deepening led by Hand of the Cause Faizi in Haifa, Israel.
  44. Jeffrey R. Brown, comp. Short Obligatory Prayer in Conlangs (2014). — Provisional translation of the Baha'i prayer in Esperanto, Klingon, Interlingua, and 10 other "const...
  45. Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Some Themes and Images in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (1976-04-21). — Exploring the relationship between the Creative Word, particularly its expression in language, and t...
  46. Universal House of Justice. Spiritual Growth, Essential Requisites for (1983-09-01). — Letter to Europe; its historically-recent turn away from religion, six ways to improve spirituality,...
  47. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Ireland, Adib Taherzadeh. Spiritualization of the Bahá'í Community: A Plan for Teaching (1982). — A three-part collection consisting of a letter from the NSA of Ireland, a letter from Taherzadeh to ...
  48. Bahá'u'lláh. Mehran Ghasempour, trans. Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (Lawh-i-Ta'wíl) (2001). — An undated tablet from the Akka period on the interpretation of sacred scripture, with references to...
  49. 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...
  50. Hajir Moghaddam. Transliteration of the Long Obligatory Prayer (2021). — Trilateral presentation of the Prayer in Arabic, English translation, and roman transliteration in t...
  51. 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...
  52. 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.
  53. John Robarts. Value of Prayer, The (1974-03-20). — Talk at the House of Worship in Wilmette by a Hand of the Cause.
  54. Bill Washington. Vladimir Chupin, trans. Комментарии к Пространной обязательной молитве (1996). — Комментарий к Пространной обязательной молитве Бахау...

2.   from the Chronology (5 results; expand)

  1. 1873-02-02 — The revelation of the obligatory prayers. "Many of the laws of the Bab...are carefully designed i...
  2. 1887-10-27 — "When Baha'u'llah revealed the Kitab-i-Aqdas He withheld the publication of certain laws. These incl
  3. 1892-05-29 — The Ascension of Baha'u'llah   Baha'u'llah passed away at Bahji in His seventy–fifth year. [AB47...
  4. 1935-10-01 — Shoghi Effendi wrote to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States and Cana...
  5. 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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