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The [[Bahá'í Faith]] teaches that meditation is necessary for spiritual growth, alongside obligatory prayer and fasting. [[`Abdu'l-Bahá]] is quoted as saying:
The [[Bahá'í Faith]] teaches that meditation is necessary for spiritual growth, alongside obligatory prayer and fasting. [[`Abdu'l-Bahá]] is quoted as saying:
<blockquote>"Meditation is the key for opening the doors of mysteries to your mind. In that state man abstracts himself: in that state man withdraws himself from all outside objects; in that subjective mood he is immersed in the ocean of spiritual life and can unfold the secrets of things-in-themselves."<ref>{{cite book |author = `Abdu'l-Bahá |authorlink = `Abdu'l-Bahá |origyear = 1912 |year = 1995 |title = Paris Talks |pages = p. 175 |publisher = Bahá'í Distribution Service |id = ISBN 1870989570 |url = http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/PT/pt-55.html }}</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>"Meditation is the key for opening the doors of mysteries to your mind. In that state man abstracts himself: in that state man withdraws himself from all outside objects; in that subjective mood he is immersed in the ocean of spiritual life and can unfold the secrets of things-in-themselves."[http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/PT/pt-55.html]</blockquote>
Although the Founder of the Faith, [[Bahá'u'lláh]], never specified any particular forms of meditation, some Bahá'í practices are meditative. One of these is the daily repetition of the Arabic phrase Alláhu Abhá ([[Arabic]]: الله ابهى) (God is Most Glorious) 95 times preceded by [[ablution]]s. Abhá has the same root as Bahá' ([[Arabic]]: بهاء "splendor" or "glory") which Bahá'ís consider to be the "Greatest Name of God".
Although the Founder of the Faith, [[Bahá'u'lláh]], never specified any particular forms of meditation, some Bahá'í practices are meditative. One of these is the daily repetition of the Arabic phrase Alláhu Abhá ([[Arabic]]: الله ابهى) (God is Most Glorious) 95 times preceded by [[ablution]]s. Abhá has the same root as Bahá' ([[Arabic]]: بهاء "splendor" or "glory") which Bahá'ís consider to be the "Greatest Name of God".
