Fast - prayers for
Prayers for the Fast (to be categorized)[edit]
The following prayers on fasting from The Importance of Obligatory and Fasting need to be referenced, categorized, and linked from here:
Prayers for the Fast[edit]
- Prayer for the Fast - 'the Frequented Fane', Prayers and Meditations, sec. 7 (pp. 9-10)
- Prayer for the Fast - 'These are the days', Prayers and Meditations, sec. 56 (pp. 79-86)
- Prayer for the Fast - 'the Preamble of the Book', Prayers and Meditations, sec. 85 (pp. 143-145)
- Prayer for the Fast before dawn, Prayers and Meditations, sec. 177 (pp. 288-293)
- Prayer for the Fast - 'Revelation and Concealment', Prayers and Meditations, sec. 178 (pp. 294-301)
- Lawh-i-Síyam/Munájatháy-i-Síyám, Gleanings, sec. 138 (pp. 299-302)
- Prayer for the Fast - 'the long Iftár prayer', Gleanings', sec. 160 (pp. 299-302)
Other Prayers for the Fast[edit]
(The first of these is apparently an earlier translation of the subsequent one.)
"O God! as I am fasting from the appetites of the body and not occupied with eating and drinking, even so purify and make holy my heart and my life from aught else save Thy Love, and protect and preserve my soul from self-passions and animal traits. Thus may the spirit associate with the Fragrances of Holiness and fast from everything else save Thy mention."
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, in "Table Talks and Notes Taken at Acca", p. 11; also in Star of the West, Vol. IV, No. 18, p. 305, in Lights of Guidance, no. 784)
"O Divine Providence! As I am abstaining from bodily desires and not occupied with eating and drinking, even so purify and sanctify my heart from the love of anyone save Thyself, and shield and protect my soul from corrupt desires and satanic qualities, so that my spirit may commune with the breaths of holiness, and fast from the mention of all else besides Thee."
- (Per http://www.bahaijustice.com/2013/03/ , this is from "‘Abdu’l-Baha’, Remembrance of God, A Selection of Baha’i Prayers and Holy Writings" and per http://thebabhistory.blogspot.hk/2013/03/a-prayer-for-fast.html , this is ‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a talk in Akka, ‘Table Talks by ‘Abdu’l-Baha’; Corinne True, booklet published by Baha’i Publishing Society, Chicago 1907; revised translation by the Baha’i World Centre in ‘Fasting a Baha’i Handbook, by Duane Herrmann)
