The spiritual growth generated by individual devotions is
reinforced by loving association among the friends in every locality, by
worship as a community and by service to the Faith and to one’s fellow human
beings. These communal aspects of the godly life relate to the law of the
Mashriqu’l-Adhkár which appears in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. Although the time has not
come for the building of local Mashriqu’l-Adhkárs, the holding of regular
meetings for worship open to all and the involvement of Bahá’í communities in
projects of humanitarian service are expressions of this element of Bahá’í life
and a further step in the implementation of the Law of God.
- The Universal House
of Justice (From a message dated 28 December 1999, addressed to the Baha’is of
the World)
