Praise be unto Thee, O Lord my God! We have observed the
Fast in conformity with Thy bidding and break it now through Thy love and Thy
good-pleasure. Deign to accept, O my God, the deeds that we have performed in
Thy path wholly for the sake of Thy beauty with our faces set towards Thy
Cause, free from aught else but Thee. Bestow, then, Thy forgiveness upon us,
upon our forefathers, and upon all such as have believed in Thee and in Thy
mighty signs in this most great, this most glorious Revelation. Potent art Thou
to do what Thou choosest. Thou art, verily, the Most Exalted, the Almighty, the
Unconstrained.
(Baha’u’llah, compilation ‘The Importance of Obligatory Prayer
and Fasting’, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of
Justice; ‘Baha’i Prayers’)
