The Fast
This is the number of days of the Fast each year.
What is 19
This is the translation of the word Badi into English.
What does wonderous or unique.
This is a mid-19th-century religion, whose founder taught that God would soon send a prophet in the same way of Jesus or Muhammad.
What is the Babi religion?
This Holy day is celebrated this year on March 19th
What is Naw-Ruz?
He is referred to in the Bayan as He whom God shall make manifest.
Who is Bahá'u'lláh?
These two things are the greatest obligations of a Baha'i. Its purpose is spiritual, to reinvigorate the soul and bring an individual closer to God.
What are the 19 Day Fast and Obligatory Prayer?
This begins on the day of the vernal equinox in Tehran, Iran.
What is the Baha'i New Year?
One of the early followers of the Báb, and later took the title of Bahá'u'lláh.
Who was Mírzá Husayn `Alí Núrí?
A twelve day festival that commemorates Bahá'u'lláh's announcement to be the Manifestation of God, is the most holy Bahá'í festival to which Bahá'u'lláh referred as the "Most Great Festival."
What is the Festival of Ridvan?
This is important event occurred on May 22 1844
What is the declaration of the Báb to Mulla Husayn in Shiraz, Iran?
The Bahá'í fasting most resembles the fast of Ramadan by Muslims in that Bahais abstain from food and water completely from sunrise to sunset, except that the month of Ramadan lasts for this length of days.
What is 30 days?
This is the name of the first month in the Badi calendar in both Arabic and English.
What are Baha and Glory?
This event occurred on November 12, 1817.
What is the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh?
Two successive holy days in the Bahá'í Calendar that celebrate the births of two Central Figures of the Bahá'í Faith
What is the Twin Holy Birthdays of the Bab and Bahaullah?
In July of this year The Bab is imprisoned in Maku and writes the Bayan.
What is July 1847?
These are the ages between which the Baha'i Fast is binding.
What are 15 and 70?
This is the current Baha'i year as determined by the day of the vernal equinox on March 20 2021.
What is 178?
This important event occurred on July 9th 1850.
What is the Martyrdom of the Bab?
These holy days are celebrated on the first and the second day following the occurrence of the eighth new moon after Naw-Rúz.
What are the birthdays of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh?
This was the year in which Bahá'u'lláh received the first intimations that he is the promised one foretold by the Báb.
What is 1852? (September - December while in the Siyah-Chal)
These are some of the conditions under which a Baha'i adult is exempt from observing the Fast.
What are the illness, heavy labor, pregnancy, nursing, travel (etc)?
They are Jalál, Jamál, Kamál, Fiḍál, ʻIdál, Istijlál, and Istiqlál.
What are the days of the week in the Badi Calendar?
This is the location that Bahá'ís should face when saying their daily Obligatory Prayers.
What is the Qiblih / The Shrine of Baha'u'llah?
These Holy Days on which work/school is not suspended.
What are The Day of the Covenant and the Ascension of Abdu'l-Baha.
This important event occurred on 1894, March 1st.
What is the birth of Shoghi Effendi, Bahaullah's great grandson?