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The Baha’i Fast falls during the month of Ala–the last month of the Baha’i calendar. During these 19 days, Baha’is abstain from food and drink between sunrise and sunset. While this abstention from food and drink is a test of one’s will and discipline, the Fast is not just about abstaining from food. The Fast is, primarily, a spiritual practice.

10 More Mini Meditations for the Fast

March 20, 2024, in Images > Quotes, by Sonjel Vreeland

This year we’ve been sharing images of quotations from the Baha’i Writings each day of the Fast on Facebook and X. We gathered the first nine and shared them in our images section and in this post, we’re sharing the remaining 10!

Creating and posting these images has been a wonderful way to mark each passing day of the Fast and we’re delighted that it has been well received. We hope you have enjoyed these images as much as we have enjoyed sharing them with you!

"We cannot love each human being for himself, but our feeling towards humanity should be motivated by our love for the Father Who created all men." (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, in Living the Life, pp. 41–42)

"…in my wanderings over mountains and plains, my toils and troubles on the seas, Thou hast answered still my cries for help, and confirmed me, and favoured me, and honoured me with service at Thy Threshold." – from recently translated tablets, extracts and talks by Abdu'l-Baha

"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." – Abdu'l-Baha, The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting

"O Thou by Whose name the sea of joy moveth and the fragrance of happiness is wafted! I ask Thee to show me from the wonders of Thy favour that which shall brighten mine eyes and gladden my heart. Thou, verily, art the All-Bounteous, the Most Generous." – Baha'u'llah (recently translated additional prayers)

"If you read the utterances of Baha’u’llah and Abdu’l-Baha with selflessness and care and concentrate upon them, you will discover truths unknown to you before and will obtain an insight into the problems that have baffled the great thinkers of the world." (In the handwriting of Shoghi Effendi, appended to a letter dated 30 January 1925 written on his behalf to an individual believer)

"We should not, however, forget that an essential characteristic of this world is hardship and tribulation and that it is by overcoming them that we achieve our moral and spiritual development. As the Master says, sorrow is like furrows, the deeper they go the more plentiful are the fruits we obtain." From a letter dated 5 November 1931 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, in Living the Life, p. 7

"Blessed art thou, for the beauty of the divine Countenance hath enraptured thy heart, and the light of inner wisdom hath filled it full, and within it shineth the brightness of the Kingdom." – Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha

"May the hidden confirmations of God make each one of you to become a well-spring of knowledge. May your hearts ever receive inspiration from the denizens of the Concourse on high. May the drop become as the great sea; may the mote dazzle as the shining sun." – recently translated additional tablets, extracts and talks of Abdu'l-Baha

"How sweet, how delicious, how satisfying, how spiritual is prayer in the middle of the night! While all the eyes are closed the eyes of the worshipper are wide open. While all the ears are stopped the ears of the suppliant are attuned to the subtle music of God. While the majority of the people are fast asleep the adorer of the Ideal Beloved is wakeful. All around him there is a rare and delicate silence, deep, airy, ethereal silence, calm, magical and subtle—and there is the worshipper, communing with nature and the author of nature." – Abdu'l-Baha, Star of the West

"The happiness of man is in the fragrance of the love of God." – Abdu'l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace

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Sonjel Vreeland

In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.

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