In answer to a question as to whether this injunction is obligatory, Baha'u'llah stated it was not (Q and A 48). Shoghi Effendi in a letter written on his behalf further comments: (202:3)

Attendance at Nineteen Day Feasts is not obligatory (202:4)

but very important, and every believer should consider it (202:5)

a duty and privilege to be present on such occasions. (202:6)

83. If ye should hunt with beasts or birds of prey, invoke ye the Name of God when ye send them to pursue their quarry; for then whatever they catch shall be lawful unto you, even should ye find it to have died.
By this law, Baha'u'llah greatly simplifies practices and religious regulations of the past relating to hunting. He has also stated that hunting with such weapons as bows and arrows, guns, and the like, is included in this ruling, but that the consumption of game if it is found dead in a trap or a net is prohibited (Q and A 24). (202:7)

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