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..But the Law is not satisfied by being literally fulfilled, by a mere external legality; it demands to be carried out from inner devotion: "Walk in My statutes for love of Me" (Baha'u'llah). Merely carrying out the Law offers no claim to God's grace, because the fulfilment of any law needs God's acceptance: "Nothing whatsoever shall, in this Day, be accepted from you, though ye continue to worship and prostrate yourselves before God... For all things are dependent upon His Will, and the worth of all acts is conditioned upon His acceptance and pleasure." How seriously the Baha'i Faith takes the fact that no claims accrue to a man through his covenant with God, is shown by the 'Naw-Ruz' prayer which says: "For the doings of men are all dependent upon Thy good-pleasure, and are conditioned by Thy behest. Shouldst Thou regard him who hath broken the fast as one who hath observed it, such a man would be reckoned among them who from eternity had been keeping the fast. And shouldst Thou decree that he who hath observed the fast hath broken it, that person would be numbered with such as have caused the Robe of Thy Revelation to be stained with dust, and been far removed from the crystal waters of this living Fountain."
(97:2)
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