Sunday, November 7, 2021

Music and prayer

Month, Day: 178, Power, Light (Beauty)

Only of late, looking into this. The Aqdas mentions the power of music (Page 39, #51): We, verily, have made music as a ladder for your souls, a means whereby they may be lifted up unto the realm on high; make it not, therefore, as wings to self and passion. 

Example:

    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.  

                                                                         Bahá’u’lláh

And, the music: SHAFIREH ARIA FASTING CHANT 2020 (especially, like the piano)

Remarks: 11/18/2021 

11/18/2021 -- Added link to the paragraph with text.  

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