Thou art the Mighty and the Powerful.
--'Abdu'l-Baha
FOR THE DEPARTED
"O my God! This is Thy servant and the son of..."
(The Prayer for the Dead is to be used for Baha'is over the age of
fifteen. "It is the only Baha'i obligatory prayer which is to be recited
in congregation; it is to be recited by one believer while all present
stand. There is no requirement to face the Qiblih when reciting this
prayer."--A Synopsis and Codification of the Kitab-i-Aqdas)
O my God! This is Thy servant and the son of Thy servant who hath believed
in Thee and in Thy signs, and set his face towards Thee, wholly detached
from all except Thee. Thou art, verily, of those who show mercy the most
merciful.
Deal with him, O Thou Who forgivest the sins of men and concealest their
faults, as beseemeth the heaven of Thy bounty and the ocean of Thy grace.
Grant him admission within the precincts of Thy transcendent mercy that
was before the foundation of earth and heaven. There is no God but Thee,
the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Generous.
Let him, then, repeat six times the greeting "Allah-u-Abha," and then
repeat nineteen times each of the following verses:
We all, verily, worship God.
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