O My brother! How great, how very great, can the law of
obligatory prayer be, when, through His mercy and loving kindness, one is
enabled to observe it. When a man commenceth the recitation of the Obligatory
Prayer, he should see himself severed from all created things and regard
himself as utter nothingness before the will and purpose of God, in such wise
that he seeth naught but Him in the world of being. This is the station of
God's well-favoured ones and those who are wholly devoted to Him. Should one perform
the Obligatory Prayer in this manner, he will be accounted by God and the
Concourse on high among those who have truly offered the prayer. - Baha’u’llah (Compilation on ‘The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting’, prepared by
Research Department of the Universal House of Justice)
