The Twin Luminaries of this resplendent age have taught us
this: Prayer is the essential spiritual conversation of the soul with its
Maker, direct and without intermediation. It is the spiritual food that
sustains the life of the spirit. Like the morning’s dew, it brings freshness to
the heart and cleanses it, purifying it from attachments of the insistent self.
It is a fire that burns away the veils and a light that leads to the ocean of
reunion with the Almighty. On its wings does the soul soar in the heavens of
God and draw closer to the divine reality. Upon its quality depends the
development of the limitless capacities of the soul and the attraction of the
bounties of God, but the prolongation of prayer is not desirable.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 18
December 2014 to the Bahá’ís in Iran; compilation: ‘Prayer and Devotional
Life’, Prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice,
February 2019)
