January 17
We 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. (Baha’u’llah, ‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
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