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How To Perform The Short Obligatory Baha'i Prayer

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The Baha'i Faith includes three obligatory prayers, although a Baha'i is only required to perform one of them in any 24-hour period. For those performing the Short Obligatory Prayer, the following steps should be performed at noon.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 1 minute
Here's How:
  1. Recite the following:
    I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
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