Patterns of Activity - Daily

From Bahai9

Contents 1 General Considerations for Dividing the Day 2 Activities by Time of Day (recommended or obligatory) 2.1 Day-time (especially beginning at dawn) 2.2 Day and Evening 2.3 Day and/or Noon/Afternoon and/or Evening 2.4 Evening 2.5 Material Ordinances Enjoined in the Writings Which are Likely Daily (or at least frequent) without a Specified Time 2.6 Spiritual Ordinances Enjoined in the Writings Which are Likely Daily (or at least frequent) without a Specified Time

General Considerations for Dividing the Day

...into Halves:

1. material life and dignified appearance
2. acquisition of moral virtues and service at the threshold of God

"...Share your time with God. Spend half of the day in search of livelihood, guaranteeing your material life and dignified appearance, and dedicate the other half in the acquisition of moral virtues and service at the threshold of God..."

(Attributed to 'Abdu'l-Bahá, quoted on back cover of "Economics of the Future" (see here for a discussion of this quotation)) 

(For dividing one's time (in general) between the Cause and one's profession, see balancing the Cause and a profession):

Activities by Time of Day (recommended or obligatory)

Day-time (especially beginning at dawn)

1. (Private) Dawn prayers (strongly recommended but not obligatory)
2. Bringing oneself to account (also repent and ask for assistance to improve)
3. Community dawn prayers (recommended but not obligatory)
4. Light breakfast (recommended) (may be before community prayers?)
5. Children to begin school (from a.m. to noon to learn to read, from noon to about sunset, study a craft) - Children's schedule

Day and Evening

1. Recital of the Greatest Name (on arising and just before sleep)
2. Recitation of the verses of God

Day and/or Noon/Afternoon and/or Evening

1. Recital of the short, medium, or long obligatory prayer
2. Recitation of 95 Alláh'u'Abhás (according to this unauthenticated source, is potentially by implication to be in the morning)
3. Family prayer and reading

Evening

1. Mother to children reading the Odes of Bahá'u'lláh before bed.
2. Prayer at quiet times such as midnight (recommended but not obligatory)

Material Ordinances Enjoined in the Writings Which are Likely Daily (or at least frequent) without a Specified Time

1. self-cleaning
2. Work/study

Spiritual Ordinances Enjoined in the Writings Which are Likely Daily (or at least frequent) without a Specified Time

1. Study of/Meditation on the Writings alone (or in family?+) (specified as daily????)
2. creating (and reviewing) teaching plans (individual or family)
3. teaching (this is specified to be a daily activity)