The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
describe. By My life! He who hath drunk the choice wine of fairness from the hands of My bountiful favour will circle around My commandments that shine above the Dayspring of My creation.
5Think not that We have revealed unto you a mere code of laws. Nay, rather, We have unsealed the choice Wine with the fingers of might and power. To this beareth witness that which the Pen of Revelation hath revealed. Meditate upon this, O men of insight!
6We have enjoined obligatory prayer upon you, with nine rak’áhs, to be offered at noon and in the morning and the evening unto God, the Revealer of Verses. We have relieved you of a greater number, as a command in the Book of God. He, verily, is the Ordainer, the Omnipotent, the Unrestrained. When ye desire to perform this prayer, turn ye towards the Court of My Most Holy Presence, this Hallowed Spot that God hath made the Centre round which circle the Concourse on High, and which He hath decreed to be the Point of Adoration for the denizens of the Cities of Eternity, and the Source of Command unto all that are in heaven and on earth; and when the Sun of Truth and Utterance shall set, turn your faces towards the Spot that We have ordained for you. He, verily, is Almighty and Omniscient.
7Everything that is hath come to be through His irresistible decree. Whenever My laws appear like the sun in the heaven of Mine utterance, they must be faithfully obeyed by all, though My decree be such as to cause the heaven of every religion to be cleft asunder. He doeth what He pleaseth. He chooseth, and none
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Study Guide
Paragraph 5.
Complete this quotation:
Think not that We have . . . . . . .”
(See Note 2)
What is meant by “we have unsealed the choice Wine”?
Paragraph 6.
Describe the “Point of Adoration”:
the Court of . . . . . . . this . . . . . . . the Centre . . . . . . . the Source of . . . . . . . ”
(See Note 3)
What occupies an exalted station in the sight of God?
What are the obligatory prayers conducive to?
What does ‘Abdu’l-Bahá say happens through saying the obligatory prayers?
(See Note 4)
What is a rak’ah?
“...in every word and movement of the Obligatory Prayer” there are what?
What does Shoghi Effendi say about the few simple directions for the recital of certain prayers?
(See Note 5)
When are the “allowable times for Obligatory prayers”?
(See Note 7)
What is the “Point of Adoration” called?
(See Note 7)
Is facing the Qiblih a fixed requirement for reciting the obligatory prayer?
(See Note 7)
For other prayers is it a requirement to face the Qiblih?
(See Note 8)
Where does the “Concourse on High” circumambulate?
(See Note 8)
How does Shoghi Effendi explain the spiritual significance of turning towards the Qiblih?
Paragraph 7.
Complete this quotation:
Whenever My laws appear . . . . . . .”
If you inhale the sweet fragrance of the All-Merciful” and recognize “the Source of this utterance” what will you welcome?
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