Prayers and Meditations of Bahá’u’lláh is a collection, in English, of Bahá’u’lláh’s devotional writings. It is one of Shoghi Effendi’s translations: a work he undertook in 1936-37, shortly after he completed the translation of Gleanings of Bahá’u’lláh. In Prayers and Meditations we find Shoghi Effendi’s translations of the Baha’i obligatory prayers – which Baha’is recite every day – noting that Shoghi Effendi’s English translations became the model for translation into many other languages. Beautiful flowing language such as the following: … make of my prayer a fire that will burn away the veils which have shut me out from Thy beauty, and a light that will lead me unto the ocean of Thy Presence…