Naw-Rúz.
The Persian new year at the spring equinox, kept as the Bahá'í new year and as the end of the Fast. The Bahá'í calendar runs nineteen months of nineteen days, with four or five intercalary days before the fasting month — a structure the Báb devised, in which every month and every day carries a name of God.
Naw-Rúz falls at the vernal equinox and is both the Persian new year and the Bahá'í one, marking the end of the nineteen-day Fast. The calendar it opens, the Badí' calendar, was devised by the Báb and confirmed by Bahá'u'lláh: nineteen months of nineteen days, making 361 days, with four intercalary days — five in a leap year — inserted before the final month, which is the fasting month. Every month and every day bears one of the names of God — Splendour, Glory, Beauty, Grandeur, Light, Mercy, Words, Perfection, Names, Might, Will, Knowledge, Power, Speech, Questions, Honour, Sovereignty, Dominion, Loftiness. The intercalary days, called Ayyám-i-Há, are given over to hospitality, gift-giving and charity, and function as the faith's festive season. Since 2015 the timing has been fixed astronomically from Tehran rather than by a fixed date of 21 March, which means Naw-Rúz can fall on 20 or 21 March depending on the year.
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