There are various stages and stations for the Fast and innumerable effects and benefits are concealed therein. Well is it with those who have attained unto them.
- Bahá’u’lláh, Compilations, The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting
Fasting is of two kinds - spiritual and material. The spiritual fasting comes first, and is the soul's refusal or denial of all kinds of evil actions and habits - this is the important fasting. The bodily fasting or abstinence from food, is a sign or witness to the inward fasting, and is of no value by itself. But when both kinds of fasting go together, then the effect upon the soul is as "light upon light."
- Abdu'l-Bahá, Compilations, Baha'i Prayers 9, p. 48
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