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The Baháʼí calendar is composed of nineteen months, each with nineteen days. [19] The intercalary days, known as Ayyám-i-Há, occur between the eighteenth and nineteenth months. The names of the months were adopted by the Báb from the Du'ay-i-Sahar, a Ramadan dawn prayer by Imam Muhammad al-Baqir, the fifth Imam of Twelver Shiʻah Islam.
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. [3]
Ramadan (Arabic: رَمَضَان, Ramaḍān) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is also the month in which the Quran is believed to have been revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Fasting during the month of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. The month is spent by Muslims fasting during the daylight hours from dawn ...
The daily fast in Ramadan includes abstaining from all food and drink; not even a sip of water is allowed from dawn to sunset before breaking the fast in a meal known as “iftar” in Arabic.
He placed the intercalary days before the fasting month of ʻAlá, the nineteenth and last month, [6] and gave the intercalary days the name "Ayyám-i-Há" or "Days of Ha". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Prior to 172 B.E. (2015 A.D.), Ayyám-i-Há was from sunset on February 25 to sunset on March 1.
A Palestinian worker sorts and packs dates at a factory in preparation for the fasting Muslim month of Ramadan in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 19, 2023 (AFP via Getty Images)
Ramadan is the month on which the Quran was revealed as a guide for humanity with clear proofs of guidance and the standard ˹to distinguish between right and wrong˺. So whoever is present this month, let them fast. But whoever is ill or on a journey, then ˹let them fast˺ an equal number of days ˹after Ramaḍân˺.
Fasting does not only refer to food and drink during Islam’s holy month