Ayyam-i-Ha (the Intercalary Days) are four or five days inserted into the nineteen month, nineteen day Bahai calendar immediately before the final month of fasting, set aside in the Kitab-i-Aqdas for hospitality, charity, gift-giving to children and general festivity. Unlike the two Bahai holy days on which work is suspended, Ayyam-i-Ha is a joyous but not obligatory-rest observance, widely kept in Bahai communities worldwide as a family and community celebration comparable in tone to a new year festival.
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Calendar SystemIts own record calls it a Bahai calendar observance, the Intercalary Days set out in the Kitab-i-Aqdas. Date RuleThe four or five intercalary days immediately preceding Ala, the final month of fasting, in the Badi (Baha'i) calendar. 1 Fixed or MovableFixed date in its own calendar 1 Observance
Observance Type Observance Type Status
Status TodayLiving tradition, practised today 1 Connections
Belongs to Tradition
Source A Concise Encyclopedia of the Baha'i FaithPeter Smith
Follows Calendar
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1. A Concise Encyclopedia of the Baha'i Faith
An Introduction to the Baha'i Faith
Peter Smith, Cambridge University Press, 2008on the Bahai calendar and its festivals
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