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The Baháʼí calendar used in the Baháʼí Faith is a solar calendar consisting of nineteen months and four or five intercalary days, with new year at the moment of Northern spring equinox. Each month is named after a virtue ( e.g., Perfection, Mercy), as are the days of the week. The first year is dated from 1844 CE, the year in which the ...
The Festival of Ridván, a twelve-day festival that commemorates Baháʼu'lláh's announcement to be the Manifestation of God, is the most holy Baháʼí festival to which Baháʼu'lláh referred as the "Most Great Festival." [5] The first, ninth and twelfth days of the festival are celebrated as holy days. Annually on Jalál 13, Jamál 2 and ...
All Baha'i observances begin at the sundown prior to the date listed, and end at sundown of the date in question unless otherwise noted. The Birth of the Báb and Birth of Baháʼu'lláh fall on November 5–6 in 2021. [1] Holiday name. Equinox on March 19. Equinox on March 20. Equinox March 21. Feast of 'Alá' (Loftiness)
The first month, and the first day of each month, are both named Bahá, an Arabic word meaning splendour or glory. Thus Naw-Rúz, the first day of the year, is the day of Bahá in the month of Bahá. [2] [5] The day was called the Day of God by the Báb, and was associated with He whom God shall make manifest, a messianic figure in the Báb's ...
The nineteen days of fasting occur immediately after Ayyam-i-Ha, the four or five intercalary days of the Baháʼí calendar dedicated to prepare for the upcoming month of restraint. The fast concludes at the festival of Naw Ruz, on the vernal equinox (20–21 March, depending on the year). For 2024, fasting takes place from 1-19 March.
Bahá'u'lláh was born on 12 November 1817 in Tehran, Iran, [4] and this holy day was instituted in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, his book of laws, where Baháʼu'lláh first refers to four great festivals: the Festival of Ridván, the Declaration of the Báb, the birth of the Báb—who is considered to be a Manifestation of God, and who foretold the ...
2024 date. 2–3 November. The Festivals of the Twin Birthdays or the Twin Holy Birthdays refers to two successive holy days in the Baháʼí calendar that celebrate the births of two central figures of the Baháʼí Faith. The two holy days are the birth of the Báb on the first day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar (20 October 1819) and the ...
Riḍván ( Arabic: رضوان, romanized : Riḍwān, lit. 'Paradise'; Bahá'í orthography: Rezván, Persian pronunciation: [ɾezvɒːn]) is a twelve-day festival in the Bahá'í Faith commemorating Bahá'u'lláh 's declaration that he was a Manifestation of God. [ 1] In the Bahá'í calendar, it begins at sunset on the 13th of Jalál, which ...