Through worship man becometh spiritual, his heart is attracted,
and his soul and inner being attain such tenderness and exhilaration that the
Obligatory Prayer instilleth new life in him. This is why in the Tablet of
Visitation it hath been revealed: "I beseech God, by Thee and by them
whose faces have been illumined with the splendours of the light of Thy
countenance, and who, for love of Thee, have observed all whereunto they were
bidden." It is clear then that love of the beauty of the All-Merciful
impelleth one to the worship of Almighty God.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Compilation ‘The
Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting’, compiled by Research Department
of the Universal House of Justice; published in The American Baha'i, September
2000)
