61Question:If an Obligatory Prayer be omitted at home, is it to be compensated for by a prostration or not?
Answer:In answer to previous questions it was written: “This provision regarding the compensating prostration applieth both at home and on a journey.”

62Question:If, for another purpose, one hath performed ablutions, and the time of obligatory prayer arriveth, are these ablutions sufficient or must they be renewed?
Answer:These same ablutions are sufficient, and there is no need for them to be renewed.

63Question:In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas obligatory prayer hath been enjoined, consisting of nine rak’áhs, to be performed at noon, in the morning and the evening, but the Tablet of Obligatory Prayers1 appeareth to differ from this.
Answer:That which hath been revealed in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas concerneth a different Obligatory Prayer. Some years ago a number of the ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas including that Obligatory Prayer were, for reasons of wisdom,