Notes to Aqdas, Sentence #300
Notes from the Authorized Translation
147. The number of months in a year, appointed in
the Book of God, is nineteen. # 127
The Baha'i year, in accordance with the Badi' calendar,
consists of nineteen months of nineteen days each, with the
addition of certain intercalary days (four in an ordinary year
and five in a leap year) between the eighteenth and nineteenth
months in order to adjust the calendar to the solar
year. The Bab named the months after certain attributes of
God. The Baha'i New Year, Naw-Ruz, is astronomically
fixed, coinciding with the March equinox (see note 26). For
further details, including the names of the days of the week
and the months, see the section on the Baha'i calendar in
The Baha'i World, volume XVIII.
148. the first hath been adorned with this Name
which overshadoweth the whole of creation # 127
In the Persian Bayan, the Bab bestowed the name "Baha" on
the first month of the year (see note 139).
Earl Elder's Notes
1. Here Baha'u'llah repeats what the Bab commanded in the Bayan, that is, there are to be nineteen months. The Bab named the first month of the year Baha'.
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