Recital of the Greatest Name
From Bahai9
The Greatest Name is to be used:
- first awakening moment of early dawn
- daily invocation
- in trouble
- under opposition
- the last word breathed when the head rests upon the pillow at night
"The Greatest Name should be found upon the lips in the first awakening moment of early dawn. It should be fed upon by constant use in daily invocation, in trouble, under opposition, and should be the last word breathed when the head rests upon the pillow at night. It is the name of comfort, protection, happiness, illumination, love and unity.
"I hope that thou mayest become informed of the concealed mystery and recondite symbol of the stone of the Most Great Name... The use of the Greatest Name and dependence upon it, cause the soul to strip itself of the husks of mortality and to step forth freed, reborn, a new creature...."
- ('Abdu'l-Baha: United States Supplement to Baha'i News, No. 80, p. 2, October 1964)
Application Question
Is this use of the Greatest Name to refer to use of "Alláh'u'Abhá" (as in the recitation of 95 Alláh'u'Abhás) or to "Yá Bahá'u'l-Abhá" or either?
