Bahai Provisions: A Rehash Of Bayan

5.     Fasting & Bahai Era

5.1    Summary
The Bayani year consists of 19 month of 19 days each according to the Number of All Things (Kul-i-Shay = 19 X 19 = 361).
It follows the Solar year. But the Point made no provision for the addition of certain intercalary days, four in ordinary and five in leap years in order to adjust the Bayani Calendar to the solar year.

The first month is called Baha and the last month “Ala’, which is the month of fasting. P.B V, 3; vi, 14; vii, 6; Arabic Bayan, v, 3; vi, 14; viii, 10; viii, 18; Kitab-i-Asma-i-Kul-i-Shay otherwise known as Chahar Shan (Four Grades). T.A. pp.420-422 where P.B v, 3 is quoted textually.
>br> The Bayani era commences as and from the Naw-Ruz 1st Farvardin of 1229 Iranian solar year which coincided with Jamad Awwal 5, A.H. 1266 (March 19, 1850). The Point’s Five Grade (Panj Sha’n) P.12, p.18-19; the Point’s Lawh-i-Haykal-al-Din, Wáhid v, BءB 3; the Point’s autograph personal diary of Jamad Awwal 5, A.H. 1266 (March 19, 1850), 1st entry: 1st Baha, Bayani year 1.

Thus the Bayani era commences NOT on 23, 1844 (Jamad Awwal5, A.H. 1260), the date of the Point’s declaration, or with the year of the Point’s declaration (i.e. 1844 A.D 1260 A.H.), but as and from Naw-Ruz of the year A.H. 1266 (1st of Farvardin, 1229 Iranian Solar year).

The Bayani year of 19 month of 19 days each, effective Naw-Ruz of the year A.H. 1266 is not liable to change except at the bidding of Him-Whom-God-Shall-Make-Manifest. The Point’s autograph personal diary of Jamad Awwal 5, 1266 A.H. entry no. 1.