Prayer beads  Prayer beads are traditionally used to keep count
of the repetitions of prayers, chants or devotions by adherents
of religion. Since the beads can be fingered in an automatic
manner, they allow one to keep track of how many prayers have
been said with a minimal amount of conscious effort, which in
turn allows greater attention to be paid to the prayers
themselves.  There are three widely accepted uses for prayer
beads:    1. Repetition of the same devotion a set (usually
large) number of times. This is the earliest form of prayer
beads (the Japa Mala) and the earliest Christian form (the
prayer rope). This is also the type in use by the Bahá'í Faith
2. Repetition of several different prayers in some pattern,
possibly interspersed with or accompanied by meditations.   3.
Meditation on a series of spiritual themes, e.g. Islam.  Bahá'í
Faith  Bahá'ís recite the phrase "Alláh-u-Abhá", a form of the
Greatest Name, 95 times per day, as ordained by Bahá’u’lláh in
the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, sometimes using pr