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{{Short description|Invocation in the Bahá'í Faith}}
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'''Alláh-u-Abhá''' ({{lang-ar|الله أبهى}}, ''Allāhu {{hamza}}Abhā'' "God is Most Glorious") is an invocation in the [[Bahá'í Faith]], and an expression of the "[[Greatest Name]]". It is used as a greeting that Baháʼís may use when they meet each other.<ref name="log">{{cite book |author=Compilations |editor=Hornby, Helen |year=1983 |title=Lights of Guidance: A Baháʼí Reference File |publisher=Baháʼí Publishing Trust, New Delhi, India |isbn=81-85091-46-3 |url=http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2&chapter=1#n893 |pages=266}}</ref> It can be compared to the [[takbir]] of [[Islam]], ''Allahu Akbar'' "God is Great" or [[Subhan Allah]] "how pure is God".
One of the obligations [[Baháʼu'lláh]] set for his followers is to engage in a daily meditation that involves repeating the phrase ''Alláh-u-Abhá'' 95 times.<ref name="smith">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Smith |first=Peter |encyclopedia=A concise encyclopedia of the Baháʼí Faith |title=prayer |year=2000 |publisher=Oneworld Publications |location=Oxford |pages=[https://archive.org/details/conciseencyclope0000smit/page/274 274–275] |isbn=1-85168-184-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseencyclope0000smit/page/274 }}</ref> Nader Saiedi explains that the significance of the number 95 originates from the ''[[Persian Bayán]]'', where the [[Báb]] states that ninety-five [[Hurufism|stands for the numerical value]] of "for God" (''lillāh''),<ref>{{cite book |last=Saiedi |first=Nader |year=2000 |title=Logos and Civilization - Spirit, History, and Order in the Writings of Baháʼu'lláh |section=Chapter 7: The Kitab-i-Aqdas: Date and Constitutive Principles |publisher=University Press of Maryland and Association for Baha'i Studies |location=USA |isbn=1883053609 |ol=8685020M |pages=266 }}</ref> symbolizing the recognition of the [[Manifestation of God (Baháʼí Faith)|manifestation of God]] and obedience to his laws, which are inseparable from each other, as confirmed by Baháʼu'lláh in the opening paragraph of the ''Kitáb-i-Aqdas''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Gate of the Heart |first=Nader |last=Saiedi |publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press |location=Waterloo, ON |isbn=978-1-55458-035-4 |year=2008 |pages=312–312, 333 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XTfoaK15t64C}}</ref>
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