- Rising Sun: Believers were instructed to stand facing the sun as it rises on Friday and recite a specific verse that proclaimed God's glory and had the sun bear witness to God's unity.
- Moon: The believer was decreed to stand each month facing the moon and recite a specific verse 142 times (the numerical equivalent of the name al-Qāʼim).
- Daily Mention: Separately, performing Dhikr 95 times each day using different divine names (such as Allāhu Abhā on the first day of the month) was obligatory.
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This invocation also appears in a recent compilation by Fadil-i-Yazdi, Manaij al-ahkam (Tehran: n.p., 1980), vol. 1, p. 107. Here there is a tablet of Bahá'u'lláh's commenting on the Báb's invocation to the sun, which states that by the sun the Báb intended no one else but Bahá'u'lláh, hidden behind clouds during the Báb's ministry.
(The Remembrance of God: An Invocation Technique in Sufism and the Writings of The Báb and Bahá'u'lláh by Steven Scholl, published in Bahá'í Studies Bulletin, 2:3, pp. 73-106, 1983-12)
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