Tablet catalog
Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-14
OOL 06 50180 Phelps: ABU 2144
ABU 2144•‘Abdu’l-Bahá•Persian
Reported Utterance
Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-14
120 words

بلی در آیات بدیعه نازل که کار و شغل حکم عبادت دارد ولی این دلیل بر آن نیست که عبادات و اذکار

Question:
In the West it was often stated that in the Baha'í Cause work had taken the place of prayer and this had led to the wrong idea that there was no prayer in the Baha'í dispensation.
Notes:
Zarqani and Sohrab have different wording
Translation:
Provisional translation
Religion without prayer is no religion; but in this Movement work and worship must go hand in hand; one must inspire the other.
BDA. Zarqání, Maḥmúd. Kitáb-i Badáyi`u'l-Áthár (2 vols.). Bahá'í-Verlag, 1987. Vol. 1 (translated as MHMD1): https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/241.pdf, Vol. 2 (translated as MHMD2): https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/242.pdf
BDA2.181
http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-189.html
DAS. Diary notebooks and letters of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Dec. 1912 – Jun. 1915. English and Persian diary notebooks and letters held in the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Often quoted in other sources such as SW. Catalog entries are indexed by date and include only the English notebooks and letters. Letters from 1 Jul 1913 through 19 Oct. 1914 found here: https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914
DAS.1913-03-14
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MHMD2. Masumian, Adib (trans.). ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Europe 1912-1913: The Talks and Travels of the Master as Recorded by Mírzá Maḥmúd Zarqání. George Ronald, 2024. English Translation of BDA2
MHMD2.230
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