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A. Prayer and Meditation
- 1479. A Prayerful Condition is the Best of Conditions, Especially in Private and at Midnight
- 1480. The Reason for Privacy When Communing With God
- 1481. The More Detached and Pure the Prayer the More Acceptable to God
- 1482. The Inspiration Received Through Meditation
- 1483. With Prayer and Meditation Must Go action and Example
- 1484. The Importance and Power of Meditation
- 1485. Every Day upon Arising One Should Compare Today with Yesterday and Pray…
- 1486. How to Pray—One Must Start out With the Right Concept of God
- 1487. Wiser to Use Meditations Given by Bahá’u’lláh—Not Set Form Recommended by Someone Else
- 1488. Turn to Manifestation
- 1489. Praying to Bahá’u’lláh
- 1490. Praying to Bahá’u’lláh—As the Door
- 1491. We may Turn to the Guardian in Prayer, but Should not Confuse His Station with That of a Prophet
- 1492. Turning Toward the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh in Prayer
- 1493. Through ‘Abdu’l-Bahá One Can Address Bahá’u’lláh
- 1494. People Who Desire to Meet and Pray
- 1495. Prayers Should be Read as Printed
- 1496. Strictly Adhere to the Text of the Holy Writings
- 1497. In Quoting Prayers
- 1498. Specific Time for Remembrance of God
- 1499. Dawn Prayers
- 1500. Morning Prayers
- 1501. We should not Make a Practice of Saying Grace or of Teaching it to Our Children
- 1502. Congregational Prayer Only for the Dead
- 1503. Prayers May be Recited in Unison
- 1504. One Person should Read the Funeral Prayer
- 1505. Recital or Chanting of Prayers—Prayer is Essentially Communion Between God and Man
- 1506. Healing Prayer and Prayers for the Fast
- 1507. Effectiveness of Healing Prayer
- 1508. Prayers Answered Through Action
- 1509. Pray to be Protected from Contamination of Society
- 1510. Five Steps of Prayer
- 1511. Reciting Any Prayer Nine Times not Obligatory
- 1512. The Spiritual Man Prays Only for Love of God
- 1513. Prayer Beads, Chanting, Congregational Prayer, etc.
- 1514. Reading Prayers on the Radio
- 1515. Bahá’í Children, Communes and Prayers
- 1516. Mothers or Others Delegated Should Choose Excerpts from the Sacred Word for Children to Memorize
- 1517. There are no Special Instructions for Repeating Prayers of the Báb
- 1518. Community Prayer Sessions
- 1519. Bahá’ís Should be Taught to Meditate, but Also to Guard Against Superstitious Practices
- 1520. "O Subduer of Winds", an Invocation for Moments of Danger
B. Obligatory Prayer
- 1521. There are Mysteries and A Wisdom in Every Word and Movement of the Obligatory Prayers
- 1522. Obligatory Prayers
- 1523. Turning Towards 'Akká in Prayer is a Physical Symbol of an inner Reality—One Who Does not Understand the Acts Accompanying the Long Prayer Can Use the Short
- 1524. If a Believer is ill or Physically Unable to Perform Genuflections
- 1525. The Medium Prayer—Repeating the Greatest Name 95 times
- 1526. Physical Gestures and Washing Hands and Face in Connection with Obligatory Prayers are Laws of Bahá’u’lláh
- 1527. Each One Must Say his Obligatory Prayer by Himself
- 1528. Regarding Reading the Báb's Prayer 500 Times
- 1529. The Medium Prayer to be Recited Morning, Noon and Evening—Three Times a Day
- 1530. Definition of 'Morning', 'Noon' and 'Evening'
- 1531. In High Latitudes the National Spiritual Assembly May Fix Hours of Prayer and Fasting by the Clock
- 1532. Based on Texts in the "Kitáb-i-Aqdas" and "Questions and Answers", The Universal House of Justice Permits Use of Clock
- 1533. 'Alláh-u-Abhá' is the Form of the Greatest Name to be Used in the Long Obligatory Prayer
- 1534. Instructions in the Long Obligatory Prayer
- 1535. Instructions for the Medium Obligatory Prayer
- 1536. The Correct Position for "Sitting" During Obligatory Prayers
- 1537. Ablutions and Movements to Accompany the Recitation of the Long Obligatory Prayer
- 1538. Ablutions Before Obligatory Prayers and Repetition of the Greatest Name
- 1539. The Verse to be Recited when There is no Water
