A Bahá'í Glossary - Bahá'í Months

Bahá'í Months

The names of the months in the Bahá'í (Badi') calendar were given by the Báb, who drew them from the nineteen names of God invoked in a prayer said during the month of fasting in S̲h̲í'ih Islám.

Each of the days of the month is also given the name of one of the attributes of God. The names are the same as those of the nineteen months; thus, Naw-Rúz, the first day of the first month, would be considered the 'day of Bahá, of the month of Bahá'. If it fell on a Saturday, the first day of the Bahá'í week, it would be the 'day of Jalál'.

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Sequence	Bahá'í Month	Pronunciation	English Translation	First Day in Gregorian (Christian) Calendar *
1^st	Bahá	ba-há	Splendor	March 20 or 21
2^nd	Jalál	ja-lawl	Glory	April 8 or 9
3^rd	Jamál	ja-mawl	Beauty	April 27 or 28
4^th	'Aẓamat	AZ-am-at	Grandeur	May 16 or 17
5^th	Núr	noor	Light	June 4 or 5
6^th	Raḥmat	ra-h-mat	Mercy	June 23 or 24
7^th	Kalimát	cal-eh-mawt	Words	July 12 or 13
8^th	Kamál	cam-awl	Perfection	July 31 or August 1
9^th	Asmá'	assm-aw	Names	August 19 or 20
10^th	'Izzat	ezz-at	Might	September 7 or 8
11^th	Mas̲h̲íyyat	mash-ee-yat	Will	September 26 or 27
12^th	'Ilm	elm	knowledge	October 15 or 16
13^th	Qudrat	cod-rat	Power	November 3 or 4
14^th	Qawl	coal	Speech	November 22 or 23
15^th	Masá'il	mass-aw-ell	Questions	December 11 or 12
16^th	S̲h̲araf	sha-raff	Honor	December 30 or 31
17^th	Sulṭán	sol-tawn	Sovereignty	January 18 or 19
18^th	Mulk	molk	Dominion	February 6 or 7
	Ayyám-i-Há			The month of fasting begins when Ayyám-i-Há ends. The dates for Ayyám-i-Há are given in Table A.
19^th	'Alá	a-law	loftiness

* Starting in the year 172 B.E. the Bahá'í Calendar has been disengaged from the Gregorian Calendar. See: Disengagement of the Badí' Calendar from the Gregorian Calendar and Bahá'í Dates and Holy Days - 172 to 221 B.E.

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