The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
Questions and Answers
Answer:It is sufficient to recite the designated verse after the last prostration. The several prostrations do not require separate repetitions of the verse.
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 Prayers
1 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,
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