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Yā Musakkin ʾal•⫯Ar°yāḥ1! (Arabic, يَا مُسَكِّن الأَرْيَاح! [MP3 chant]). Dr. Mark A. Foster’s personal2 Baháʼí websites (below) are hosted on The Baháʼí Studies Web Server. For official information on the Baháʼí Faith, please visit the site of the Baháʼí International Community. You can also become a member of the Baháʼí Faith online.

BaháʼíSite (bahaisite.com)
an informational website
The Baháʼí Studies Web Server
(bahaistudies.net)
primary sources and home to several sites
The Baháʼí World (bahai.world)
celebrating a global religion
The Inner Light Rising
(innerlightrising.info)
a mystical essay on light
Unities of All Things (bahaifaith.info)
a personal Baháʼí deepening project

1“Regarding the invocation ‘Ya Musakin el Ariah’: It literally means ‘O Subduer of Winds’. The believers are not required to recite it, but may do so in moments of personal danger.”

— From a letter, dated December 6, 1939, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual Baháʼí. Cited in Lights of Guidance. Helen Hornby, compiler. New Delhi, India: Baháʼí Publishing Trust. Second edition (1988). Number 1520. Page 463.

2The views expressed by Dr. Mark A. Foster on these websites are strictly his own. They should not be regarded as official statements of Baháʼí teaching.