When it is wished to celebrate the naming of a child, a
special gathering may be held at which prayers and verses from the Holy Writings
should be read out, and all should fervently entreat, in lowliness and devotion
before the Divine Threshold, that the new-born infant may attain to
righteousness, and beseech that it may be granted heavenly confirmation,
steadfastness and constancy. The chosen name should then be conferred on the
child, and afterwards sweetmeats and refreshments may be served--this is
spiritual baptism.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a Tablet translated from the Persian,
included in a compilation prepared by the Research Department of the Universal
House of Justice on ‘The Naming of Babies’)
