tag name Naw-Rúz type: Calendar; Terminology web link bahai-library.com/tags/Naw-Ruz variations or mis-spellings Naw Ruz related tags – Badí‘ calendar; Holy days; New year; Spring referring tags Fasting; Haft Sin; Naw-Ruz messages notes See also:
– Covenant Library Unified Index
selected quotations
(authoritative sources)These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts:
"... Say: O people of the world! We have enjoined upon you fasting during a brief period, and at its close have designated for you Naw-Rúz as a feast. Thus hath the Daystar of Utterance shone forth above the horizon of the Book as decreed by Him Who is the Lord of the beginning and the end..." – Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas, ¶16
"26. and at its close have designated for you Naw-Rúz as a feast ¶16
The Báb introduced a new calendar, known now as the Badí‘ or Bahá’í calendar (see notes 27 and 147). According to this calendar, a day is the period from sunset to sunset. In the Bayán, the Báb ordained the month of ‘Alá’ to be the month of fasting, decreed that the day of Naw-Rúz should mark the termination of that period, and designated Naw-Rúz as the Day of God. Bahá’u’lláh confirms the Badí‘ calendar wherein Naw-Rúz is designated as a feast.
Naw-Rúz is the first day of the new year. It coincides with the spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, which usually occurs on 21 March. Bahá’u’lláh explains that this feast day is to be celebrated on whatever day the sun passes into the constellation of Aries (i.e. the vernal equinox), even should this occur one minute before sunset (Q&A 35). Hence Naw-Rúz could fall on 20, 21, or 22 March, depending on the time of the equinox.
Bahá’u’lláh has left the details of many laws to be filled in by the Universal House of Justice. Among these are a number of matters affecting the Bahá’í calendar. The Guardian has stated that the implementation, worldwide, of the law concerning the timing of Naw-Rúz will require the choice of a particular spot on earth which will serve as the standard for the fixing of the time of the spring equinox. He also indicated that the choice of this spot has been left to the decision of the Universal House of Justice.2
Note: 2
In its message dated 10 July 2014 concerning the common implementation of the Badí‘ calendar beginning at Naw-Rúz 172, the Universal House of Justice designated Ṭihrán as the spot on the earth that would serve as the standard for determining, by means of astronomical computations from reliable sources, the moment of the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere and thereby the day of Naw-Rúz."
– Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Note 26
bahaidata.org Q4633 · Links to Bahá'í wikis (bahai9, bahaipedia, etc.) references en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baháʼí_Naw-Rúz; bahaiquotes.com/subject/naw-ruz; bahaiquotes.com/subject/naw-ruz; thebahaiprayers.com/subject/naw-ruz; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Naw-Ruz
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