August 7
In another sense, by the terms ‘sun’, ‘moon’, and ‘stars’
are meant such laws and teachings as have been established and proclaimed in
every Dispensation, such as the laws of prayer and fasting. These have,
according to the law of the Qur’án, been regarded, when the beauty of the
Prophet Muhammad had passed beyond the veil, as the most fundamental and
binding laws of His dispensation. To this testify the texts of the traditions
and chronicles, which, on account of their being widely known,
need not be referred to here. Nay rather, in every Dispensation the law concerning
prayer hath been emphasized and universally enforced. To this testify the
recorded traditions ascribed to the lights that have emanated from the Day-star
of Truth, the essence of the Prophet Muhammad. (Baha’u’llah, ‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
