58. QUESTION: Concerning the blessed verse, "When travelling, if ye should stop and rest in some safe spot, perform ye ... a single prostration in place of each unsaid Obligatory Prayer": is this compensation for the Obligatory Prayer missed by reason of insecure circumstances, or is obligatory prayer completely suspended during travel, and doth the prostration take its place? ANSWER: If, when the hour of obligatory prayer arriveth, there be no security, one should, upon arrival in safe surroundings, perform a prostration in place of each Obligatory Prayer that was missed, and after the final prostration, sit cross-legged and read the designated verse. If there be a safe place, obligatory prayer is not suspended during travel. 59. QUESTION: If, after a traveller hath stopped and rested it is the time for obligatory prayer, should he perform the prayer, or make the prostration in its stead? ANSWER: Except in insecure circumstances omission of the Obligatory Prayer is not permissible. 60. QUESTION: If, due to missed Obligatory Prayers, a number of prostrations are required, must the verse be repeated after each compensating prostration or not? ANSWER: It is sufficient to recite the designated verse after the last prostration. The several prostrations do not require separate repetitions of the verse. 61. QUESTION: If an Obligatory Prayer be omitted at home, is it to be compensated for by a prostration or not? ANSWER: In answer to previous questions it was written: "This provision regarding the compensating prostration applieth both at home and on a journey." 62. QUESTION: If, for another purpose, one hath performed ablutions, and the time of obligatory prayer arriveth, are these ablutions sufficient or must they be renewed? ANSWER: These same ablutions are sufficient, and there is no need for them to be renewed. 63. QUESTION: In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas obligatory prayer hath been enjoined, consisting of nine rak’áhs, to be performed at noon, in the morning and the evening, but the Tablet of Obligatory Prayers(17) appeareth to differ from this. ANSWER: That which hath been revealed in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas concerneth a different Obligatory Prayer. Some years ago a number of the ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas including that Obligatory Prayer were, for reasons of wisdom, recorded separately and sent away together with other sacred writings, for the purposes of preservation and protection. Later these three Obligatory Prayers were revealed. 64. QUESTION: In determining time, is it permissible to rely on clocks and watches? ANSWER: It is permissible to rely on clocks and watches. 65. QUESTION: In the Tablet of Obligatory Prayers, three prayers are revealed; is the performance of all three required or not? ANSWER: It is enjoined to offer one of these three prayers; whichever is performed sufficeth.