Prayers and Meditations
From Bahai9
Read online at http://www.bahai-library.com/writings/bahaullah/pm/
On the need to read
“He is indeed pleased to know that the book of “Prayers and Meditations” by Bahá’u’lláh has been out in time to enable the friends to read it during the Fast, and he has every hope that the perusal of such a precious volume will help to deepen, more than any other publication, the spirit of devotion and faith in the friends, and thus charge them with all the spiritual power they require for the accomplishment of their tremendous duties towards the Cause.”
- (On behalf of Shoghi Effendi, Directives from the Guardian, p. 59)
Cross-referencing
For a cross-reference to other prayer-books, see http://www.bahai-library.com/study/prayercrossref/Prayer-ref-pm.html
For the Leiden list cross-reference, see http://www.bahai-library.com/resources/leiden.list/leiden.index.html#3
Items not at the Leiden list might be numbered here as follows: [[PM<number>]] (e.g., [[PM15]] for discussion of the prayer at section 15).
Items not apparently at the list (which thus might also be added as links to new pages here (with new titles)) include sections: 1-6, 8, 9, 11-44, 47-54, 57-84, 86-103, 105-132, 135-143, 146, 147, 149-152, 161-163, 165, 168, 169, 176, 179, 184.
Individual Prayers by section
- 1 - PMB1
- 2 - PMB2
- 3 - PMB3
- 4 - PMB4
- 5 - PMB5
- 6 - PMB6
- 7 - Prayer for the Fast - 'the Frequented Fane'
- 8 - PMB8
- 9 - PMB9
- 10 - Prayer for purity (handmaidens)
- 45 - Prayer for Ayyám-i-Há
- 46 - Lawh-i-Naw Rúz II
- 55 - Prayer in trial (handmaidens)
- 56 - Prayer for the Fast - 'These are the days'
- 77 - PMB77
- 85 - Prayer for the Fast - 'the Preamble of the Book' and Munájatháy-i-Síyám (Prayers for Fasting)
- 92 - In Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 95 (original?)
- 104 - Prayer of praise
- 133 - Prayer of supplication (set our feet firm)
- 134 - Prayer of supplication (set our feet firm)
- 144 - Prayer on waking
- 145 - Prayer for protection (be Thou not far from me)
- 148 - Prayer for healing ('the ensigns of Thy guidance') (and Prayer of supplication (set our feet firm)?)
- 153 - Lawh-i-ulamá-i-Manshád
- 154 - Prayer in trial ('redeem my debts')
- 155 - Prayer for purity
- 156 - Prayer on waking ('what thou didst reveal to me in my sleep')
- 157 - Prayer of thanksgiving ('in the past and in the present')
- 158 - Prayer on waking (illumine my inner being)
- 159 - Prayer for salvation ('Thou art that King')
- 160 - Prayer for confirmation ('all life is of thee')
- 164 - Prayer on leaving home - 2
- 166 - Prayer of supplication (the good of this world and the next)
- 167 - Lawh-i-Salát-i-Mayyit
- 170 - Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet of Medicine)
- 171 - Prayer before sleep (guard mine eyes)
- 172 - Prayer before sleep
- 173 - Prayer of thanksgiving ('What tongue can voice my thanks')
- 174 - Prayer for healing ('the ocean of Thy Healing')
- 175 - Prayer on leaving home - 1
- 177 - Prayer for the Fast before dawn and Munájatháy-i-Síyám (Prayers for Fasting)
- 178 - Prayer for the Fast - 'Revelation and Concealment'
- 180 - Zíyárat-Námih (Tablet of Visitation of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh)
- 181 - Lawh-i-Salát II (Obligatory Prayer (short))
- 182 - Lawh-i-Salát II (Obligatory Prayer (medium))
- 183 - Lawh-i-Salát II (Obligatory Prayer (long))
Prayers and Meditations which are (apparently) from the point of view of Bahá'u'lláh
8, 14?, 15, 18, 20?, 22?, 27?, 30, 32, 36, 39, 44, 51, 63, 65, 66, 68, 86, 90, 91, 102, 105?, 108, 110, 111, 114?, 116, 119, 120?, 122, 123?, 131?, 141?, 142, 149, 151, 152?, 176, 179, 184
Sections which seem to be prayers vs. those which seem to be meditiatons (e.g., perhaps those of Bahá'u'lláh describing His own sufferings or praising God (alone) would be considered meditations)
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