The [Baha’i] fasting period…involves complete abstention
from food and drink from sunrise till sunset. It is essentially a period of meditation
and prayer, of spiritual recuperation, during which the believer must strive to
make the necessary readjustments in his inner life, and to refresh and
reinvigorate the spiritual forces latent in his soul. Its significance and
purpose are, fundamentally spiritual in character.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter written on
behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United
States, January 10, 1936; compilation: Lights of Guidance)
