Baha'is to observe Ayyam-i-Ha late February

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Baha'is will observe the last days in February as the days of "Ha" or five.. February 26 after sunset until sunset March 1st. These are days of socializing and fun .. some parties and gifts are exchanged but not so much as in Christmas.

Ayyam-i-Ha has a unique place in the Baha'i calendar which is a solar calendar of nineteen months with nineteen days in each month for 361 days.. Ayyam-i-Ha makes up four or five days dependeing on a leap year and are intercalary days for the full 365 days.

Following Ayyam-i-Ha begins the Baha'i Nineteen Day Fast which is refraining from solid food or liquids from sunrise to sunset from March 2nd to March 20th sunset.

YouTube - What is Ayyam-i-Há?

 

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"My God, my Fire and my Light! The days which Thou hast named the Ayyam-i-Ha (the Days of Ha, Intercalary days) in Thy Book have begun, O Thou Who art the King of names, and the fast which Thy most exalted Pen hath enjoined unto all who are in the kingdom of Thy creation to observe is approaching. I entreat Thee, O my Lord, by these days and by all such as have during that period clung to the cord of Thy commandments, and laid hold on the handle of Thy precepts, to grant that unto every soul may be assigned a place within the precincts of Thy court, and a seat at the revelation of the splendors of the light of Thy countenance."

~ Baha'u'llah, Prayers and Meditations by Baha'u'llah, p. 65

 

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