We, verily, have set forth all things in Our Book, as a
token of grace unto those who have believed in God, the Almighty, the
Protector, the Self-Subsisting. And We have ordained obligatory prayer and
fasting so that all may by these means draw nigh unto God, the Most Powerful,
the Well-Beloved. We have written down these two laws and expounded every
irrevocable decree. We have forbidden men from following whatsoever might cause
them to stray from the Truth, and have commanded them to observe that which will
draw them nearer unto Him Who is the Almighty, the All-Loving. Say: Observe ye
the commandments of God for love of His beauty, and be not of those who follow
in the ways of the abject and foolish.
- Baha’u’llah (Compilation: The
Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, prepared by the Research
Department of the Universal House of Justice)
