Yes, it’s that time of the year with a very strange name in the Baha’i calendar, the Ayyám-i-Há or literally the “Days of H”, sometimes referred to as “the Intercalary Days” since they are the four (five in this Leap Year) days between the penultimate and the final month of the Baha’i year.
It behoveth the people of Baha, throughout these days, to provide good cheer for themselves, their kindred and, beyond them, the poor and needy, and with joy and exultation to hail and glorify their Lord, to sing His praise and magnify His Name. [Baha'u'llah]
It’s also the time when Baha’is anticipate the beginning of our period of fasting – sunrise to sunset from 2 March to sunset on 20 March.
You can read more about the Ayyám-i-Há and what the Baha’i children of Solano, north of Manila, in the Philippines are doing to mark these days here.
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