Obligatory prayer is the very
foundation of the Cause of God. Through it joy and vitality infuse the heart.
Even if every grief should surround Me, as soon as I engage in conversing with
God in obligatory prayer, all My sorrows disappear and I attain joy and
gladness. A condition descendeth upon Me which I am unable to describe or
express. Whenever, with full awareness and humility, we undertake to perform
the Obligatory Prayer before God, and recite it with heartfelt tenderness, we
shall taste such sweetness as to endow all existence with eternal life.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, compilation ‘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)
