Praise
be unto Thee, O Lord my God! We have observed the Fast in conformity with Thy
bidding and break it now through Thy love and Thy good-pleasure. Deign to
accept, O my God, the deeds that we have performed in Thy path wholly for the
sake of Thy beauty with our faces set towards Thy Cause, free from aught else
but Thee. Bestow, then, Thy forgiveness upon us, upon our forefathers, and upon
all such as have believed in Thee and in Thy mighty signs in this most great,
this most glorious Revelation. Potent art Thou to do what Thou choosest. Thou
art, verily, the Most Exalted, the Almighty, the Unconstrained.
(Baha’u’llah,
‘The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting’, compiled by Research
Department of the Universal House of Justice; published in The American Baha'i, September 2000)
