闰日

（闰日起自阳历2月26日至3月1日，是迎接斋戒月的前奏，为接待宾客，做善事和送礼的日子。）

我的上天啊，我的火，我的光！祢的圣书命名为阿亚密哈的日子已经到来，祢万名之王啊！而祢最高之笔嘱咐祢创造王国里的众生都需遵守的斋戒月也接近了，我恳求祢，我的主啊，以这些日子和这些日子里，依附在祢诫命之衣带上，并紧握祢箴言之把手的种种事，赐予每一个灵魂都得以在祢殿堂的范围内，有他的位置；并在祢圣容璀璨的金光中，有他的座席。

我的主啊，这些祢的仆役们，不受腐败的倾向影响他们朝向于祢圣书所降赐的种种事，他们在祢的圣道前深深鞠躬，接受祢的圣书，当它出自于祢自己那样看待，并遵守祢规定他们必须做的一切事，选择听从祢所降赐于他们的每一个吩咐。

我的上天啊！祢瞧见他们是多么的相信和确认祢在祢的圣文中所说的一切，我的主啊，让他们从祢恩宠的手里畅饮祢永恒的活水。然后，为他们写下祢命定的酬报，作为他们浸淫在祢现身的海洋，达到畅饮与祢会面的美酒之回酬。

我祈求祢，万王之王、受压迫者的同情者，赐予他们于今生和来世都有好处的事，再为他们写下没有任何一个祢的创造者曾经发现的秘密，并将他们纳入那围聚在祢身边的生灵之群，在每一个祢的世界里，他们都在祢圣座的旁边。

诚然，祢是全能者、全知者、觉察一切者。

——巴哈欧拉

Intercalary Days

(The Intercalary Days, February 26 to March 1, inclusive, should be days of preparation for the Fast, days of hospitality, charity and the giving of presents.)

My God, my Fire and my Light!  The days which Thou hast named the Ayyám-i-Há¹ in Thy Book have begun, O Thou Who art the King of names, and the Fast which Thy most exalted Pen hath enjoined unto all who are in the kingdom of Thy creation to observe is approaching.  I entreat Thee, O my Lord, by these days and by all such as have during that period clung to the cord of Thy commandments, and laid hold on the handle of Thy precepts, to grant that unto every soul may be assigned a place within the precincts of Thy court, and a seat at the revelation of the splendors of the light of Thy countenance.

These, O my Lord, are Thy servants whom no corrupt inclination hath kept back from what Thou didst send down in Thy Book.  They have bowed themselves before Thy Cause, and received Thy Book with such resolve as is born of Thee, and observed what Thou hadst prescribed unto them, and chosen to follow that which had been sent down by Thee.

Thou seest, O my Lord, how they have recognized and confessed whatsoever Thou hast revealed in Thy Scriptures.  Give them to drink, O my Lord, from the hands of Thy graciousness the waters of Thine eternity.  Write down, then, for them the recompense ordained for him that hath immersed himself in the ocean of Thy presence, and attained unto the choice wine of Thy meeting.

I implore Thee, O Thou the King of kings and the Pitier of the downtrodden, to ordain for them the good of this world and of the world to come.  Write down for them, moreover, what none of Thy creatures hath discovered, and number them with those who have circled round Thee, and who move about Thy throne in every world of Thy worlds.

Thou, truly, art the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed.

Bahá’u’lláh

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