tag name Nineteen Day Feast type: Practices; Terminology web link bahai-library.com/tags/Nineteen_Day_Feast related tags – Bahá'í activities; Bahá'í meetings; Feasts; Recurrent events referring tags Consultation; Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Selected topics; Su'al va Javab (Questions and Answers, Kitáb-i-Aqdas); Timings of Feasts and Holy Days; Unity Feast Inventory subject Nineteen-Day Feast; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts notes See also:
– Bahai org: Nineteen Day Feast
– Compilation Nineteen Day Feast
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:
"Verily, it is enjoined upon you to offer a feast, once in every month" ¶57 "This injunction has become the basis for the holding of monthly Bahá’í festivities and as such constitutes the ordination of the Nineteen Day Feast. In the Arabic Bayán the Báb called upon His followers to gather together once every nineteen days to show hospitality and fellowship. Bahá’u’lláh here confirms this and notes the unifying role of such occasions.
‘Abdu’l‑Bahá and Shoghi Effendi after Him have gradually unfolded the institutional significance of this injunction. ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá emphasized the importance of the spiritual and devotional character of these gatherings. Shoghi Effendi, besides further elaborating the devotional and social aspects of the Feast, has developed the administrative element of such gatherings and, in systematically instituting the Feast, has provided for a period of consultation on the affairs of the Bahá’í community, including the sharing of news and messages.
In answer to a question as to whether this injunction is obligatory, Bahá’u’lláh stated it was not (Q&A 48). Shoghi Effendi in a letter written on his behalf further comments:
Attendance at Nineteen Day Feasts is not obligatory but very important, and every believer should consider it a duty and privilege to be present on such occasions."
– Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Note 82
"Regarding the time for the holding of the Nineteen Day Feasts and elections: the Guardian would advise your Assembly to urge the friends to hold such gatherings on the prescribed day before sunset. If impossible, then it is permissible to hold them on the preceding day. In connection with the nine holy days however the friends should consider it obligatory to celebrate them on the prescribed day before sunset."
– From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, 24 December 1939 to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada, in compilation Nineteen Day Feast, extract 30
bahaidata.org Q4635 · Links to Bahá'í wikis (bahai9, bahaipedia, etc.) references en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Day_Feast; bahaiquotes.com/subject/feast; bahaiquotes.com/subject/feast-children; bahaiquotes.com/subject/feast-language; bahaiquotes.com/subject/feast-non-bahais; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Feast
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