Dawn Prayers
Prayer is a gateway to a sense of meaning, purpose and connection. Why would we turn down a one-to-one relationship with our higher power? Prayer connects us to the oneness of humanity, and unfolds our own spiritual path day by day, moment by moment. Dawn Prayers are read by a group of Baha’i friends, on a Zoom call every morning. We record and post new prayers on Sundays.These prayers can help when you need strength, inspiration, solace, or companionship. We invite you to follow this podcast and make it a practice, and share how prayer changes your life, and to independently investigate our website for new Baha’is, yourbahaijourney.com.
Episodes
May 19, 2024 • 13 mins
- Graciously look upon Thy servant, humble and lowly at Thy door… and immerse him in Thy eternal grace.
- Eat ye, O people, of the good things which God hath allowed you, and deprive not yourselves from His wondrous bounties. Render thanks and praise unto Him, and be of them that are truly thankful.
- Deliver your souls, O people, from the bondage of self.
- Cheer Thou his spi...
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May 15, 2024 • 12 mins
- O thou who art tested with a great calamity, be not grieved, be not troubled because of the loss which hath befallen thee.
- In the world of existence, man hath traversed successive degrees, until he has attained the human kingdom.
- Take time to be holy. The word does not mean goody-goody. It means, set apart for sacred use.
- Thy name is my healing, O my God, and remembra...
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May 6, 2024 • 8 mins
- Ask whatsoever thou wishest of Him alone … with a glance, He healeth 100,000 incurable ills.
- Assist Thy people to turn in the direction of Thy manifold bounties.
- When the science of medicine reaches perfection, the treatment will be foods, aliments, fragrant fruits and vegetables, and by various waters, hot and cold tinctures.
- There are two ways of healing sickness, ma...
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April 28, 2024 • 15 mins
Ridvan is a twelve-day festival that commemorates the Baha’u’llah's time spent in the Garden of Ridvan in Baghdad, in 1863. He declared His Prophetic Mission to His followers and announced His station as the Promised One of all religions. It was the beginning of the New Era of humanity.
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April 22, 2024 • 12 mins
- O thou who art tested with a great calamity, be not grieved, be not troubled because of the loss which hath befallen thee…Separation elongeth to the characteristics of the bod.
- In the world of existence, man has traversed successive degrees, until he has attained the human kingdom. In each degree of his progression, he has developed capacity for advancement to the next station and condition.
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April 14, 2024 • 13 mins
- Thou art My stronghold; enter therein that thou mayest abide in safety. My love is in thee, know it, that thou mayest find Me near unto thee.
- Know thou that there are two kinds of happiness, spiritual and material. As to material happiness, it never exists.
- Create in me a pure heart, O my God, and renew a tranquil conscience within me, O my hope.
- O ye lovers of the on...
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April 8, 2024 • 10 mins
- Know verily, that the essence of justice, and the source thereof, are both embodied in the ordinances prescribed by Him who is the Manifestation of the Self of God amongst men.
- O Son of Justice! Whither can a lover go but to the land of his beloved?
- O My Friends! Walk ye in the good pleasure of the ways of the friends and know that His pleasure is in the pleasure of His creatures.
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March 31, 2024 • 14 mins
- We are saplings which have been planted by the fingers of thy bounty and have been formed by the water and clay of thy tender affection.
- Grant by Thy bounty that they may not be kept back from Thee. Make them able to soar in the atmosphere of Thy nearness.
- Thank God that ye have come into existence in this radiant century wherein the bestowals of God are appearing from all directions...
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March 24, 2024 • 18 mins
- It will be even as meeting Him face to face.
- The nature of the soul after death can never be described.
- It is not his to boast who loveth his country, but it is his who loveth the world.
- Create in me a pure heart, O my God.
- He is the prayer hearing, prayer answering God.
- I hear thou art grieved and distressed by the happenings of the world.
- Thou hast brought into being all created things through the power of thy behest.
- Unto...
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March 17, 2024 • 7 mins
- Whatever duty Thou hast prescribed unto thy servants… is but a token of grace unto them.
- The sword of upright conduct and a goodly character is sharper than blades of steel.
- Fasting is the supreme remedy and the most healing for the disease of self and passion.
- I have believed in Thee after Thou hast enabled me to know Thyself. I have embraced His truth, and the truth...
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March 10, 2024 • 13 mins
- O divine providence, this assemblage is composed of Thy friends who are attracted to Thy beauty and are set ablaze by the fire of Thy love.
- This century, the century of lights, has been endowed with unique and unprecedented glory, power, and illumination. The first candle is unity in the political realm.
- O God my God, aid Thou Thy trusted servants to have loving and tender hearts.
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March 3, 2024 • 9 mins
- May my spirit be a sacrifice to the wrongs Thou didst suffer, and my soul be a ransom for the adversities Thou didst sustain.
- This century, the century of light, hath been endowed with unique and unprecedented glory, power, and illumination.
- Certainly, with some being enormously rich, and others lamentably poor, an organization is necessary to control and improve this state of affair...
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February 25, 2024 • 10 mins
- I bear withness that he who hath known Ye hath known God.
- Thou didst lift their parched lips to the water of union. Thou dost calm their pain with the balm of Thy bounty and grace.
- At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.
- The darkness of this gloomy night shall pass away. Again the sun of reality will dawn ...
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February 18, 2024 • 10 mins
- Bless Thou, O Lord my God, the divine lote tree, and its leaves and its boughs, and its branches and its stems, and its offshoots, as long as thy most excellent titles will endure and Thy most august attributes will last.
- Knowledge is as wings to man’s life and a ladder for his ascent. It’s acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.
- The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and w...
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February 18, 2024 • 11 mins
- O ye gathering with God, blessed are ye.
- I beg of Thee by Thy name…through which Thou changes all things…guard this handmaiden…who hath put her whole trust and confidence in Thee.
- I beg of Thee by the ocean of Thy healing…purge me with the waters of Thy bounty from every affliction and disorder, and from all weakness and feebleness.
- Brighten our hearts with the splend...
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February 13, 2024 • 13 mins
- From the sweet scented streams of Thine eternity, give me to drink, O my God.
- Say, O people of the Bayan,…purge your sight, that ye may perceive its glory with your own eyes, and depend not on the sight of anyone except yourself.
- O God, my God, Thou art my hope and my beloved, my highest aim and desire.
- I had a cosmic epiphany today, Lord, that I require energy, the...
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February 5, 2024 • 14 mins
- Unto the Most Holy Book, everyone must turn, and all that is not expressly recorded therein, must be referred to the Universal House of Justice. It is verily the truth and the purpose of God Himself. Whoso doth deviate therefrom is verily of them that love discord.
- I entreat Thee…to rain down out of the heaven of Thy mercy and the clouds of Thy tender compassion, what will gladden the hearts of Thy...
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January 28, 2024 • 9 mins
- It is not for him to prideth himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
- Purge thou thy hear that we may cause fountains of wisdom and utterance to gush out therefrom, thus enabling thee to raise thy voice among all mankind.
- O befriended stranger! The candle of thine heart is lighted by the ...
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January 21, 2024 • 13 mins
- When the ocean of My presence has ebbed and the book of My revelation is ended, turn your faces toward Him whom God hath purposed.
- Know ye that the embodiment of liberty and its symbol is the animal. That which beseemeth man is submission of such restraints as will protect him from his own ignorance and guard him against the harm of the mischief maker.
- O Thou… whose presence is my ...
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January 15, 2024 • 18 mins
- Lowly and tearful, I raise my suppliant hands to Thee.
- When the ocean of My presence has ebbed and the book of My revelation has ended, turn your faces toward Him who hath branched from the ancient root.
- Know ye that the embodiment of liberty, and it's symbol, is the animal. That which beseemeth man is submission unto such restraints as will protect him from his own ignorance, and guard him against the harm of the mischief make...
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