12. Hair doth not invalidate your prayer, nor aught from which the spirit hath departed, such as bones and the like. Ye are free to wear the fur of the sable as ye would that of the beaver, the squirrel, and other animals # 9
In some earlier religious Dispensations, the wearing of the
hair of certain animals or having certain other objects on
one’s person was held to invalidate one’s prayer. Bahá’u’lláh
here confirms the Báb’s pronouncement in the Arabic Bayán
that such things do not invalidate one’s prayer.