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As the Gregorian calendar year is nearing it's end... there are lots of calendars around..to prepare people for the next year 2013.
There's the expense of purchasing the new calendars which seems to be an ongoing annual exercise.
And Baha'is of course as a small minority have to be cognizant of this calendar..but we also have our own Calendar which may be less known.
The Bahá'í calendar, or Badí calendar, was first established by the Báb in the Kitáb-i-Asmá (The Book of Names). Bahá'u'lláh later confirmed the calendar.
Interestingly the Kitáb-i-Asmá turns out to be the "largest revealed book in sacred history" .. the complete text is believed to be over three thousand pages.
- p. 36 Gate of the Heart by Nadir Saiedi.
THe Badi calendar begins on the vernal equinox ... March 21st,, and it is called Naw-Ruz and this is also the ancient Persian New Year observed by Zoroastrians and Shiah Muslims.
The Badi calendar however is mostly solar beginning on the same date each year with nineteen months of nineteen days in each month... for 361 days (19x19). There are four Intercalary days for most years but a fifth day is added for leap years.
Each month and each day of the Badi calendar is named after an attribute of God and you also have names for the seven days of the week.
Sometimes I like giving out Baha'i calendars to people as a small giift and token so they can begin to appreciate the Baha'i calendar. They often have the Gregorian calendar with notations showing the Holidays and Feasts of the Badi Calendar...so you might consider that as a gift to someone.
Feel free to discuss more aspects of this calendar...
Here's is a site where you can learn more about the Baha'i (Badi) Calendar:
Calendar Badi Bahai
http://www-cdn.bahai.us/files/BahaiC...rOptimized.pdf
Baha'i Calendar - Masa'il, 169 B.E. (2012) - calendar.BahaIQ.com
There's the expense of purchasing the new calendars which seems to be an ongoing annual exercise.
And Baha'is of course as a small minority have to be cognizant of this calendar..but we also have our own Calendar which may be less known.
The Bahá'í calendar, or Badí calendar, was first established by the Báb in the Kitáb-i-Asmá (The Book of Names). Bahá'u'lláh later confirmed the calendar.
Interestingly the Kitáb-i-Asmá turns out to be the "largest revealed book in sacred history" .. the complete text is believed to be over three thousand pages.
- p. 36 Gate of the Heart by Nadir Saiedi.
THe Badi calendar begins on the vernal equinox ... March 21st,, and it is called Naw-Ruz and this is also the ancient Persian New Year observed by Zoroastrians and Shiah Muslims.
The Badi calendar however is mostly solar beginning on the same date each year with nineteen months of nineteen days in each month... for 361 days (19x19). There are four Intercalary days for most years but a fifth day is added for leap years.
Each month and each day of the Badi calendar is named after an attribute of God and you also have names for the seven days of the week.
Sometimes I like giving out Baha'i calendars to people as a small giift and token so they can begin to appreciate the Baha'i calendar. They often have the Gregorian calendar with notations showing the Holidays and Feasts of the Badi Calendar...so you might consider that as a gift to someone.
Feel free to discuss more aspects of this calendar...
Here's is a site where you can learn more about the Baha'i (Badi) Calendar:
Calendar Badi Bahai
http://www-cdn.bahai.us/files/BahaiC...rOptimized.pdf
Baha'i Calendar - Masa'il, 169 B.E. (2012) - calendar.BahaIQ.com