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Baha'is will be observing five days of Ayyam-i-Ha this year! From sunset February 25th to sunset March 1st...

A time of fun, community, sharing and service to others...

Why not share your plans for Ayyam-i-Ha?

Bahá'u'lláh's own instructions from the Kitáb-i-Aqdas:

"Let the days in excess of the months be placed before the month of fasting. We have ordained that these, amid all days and nights, shall be the manifestations of the letter Há, and thus they have not been bounded by the limits of the year and its months. It behoveth the people of Bahá, throughout these days, to provide good cheer for themselves, their kindred and, beyond them, the poor and needy, and with joy and exultation to hail and glorify their Lord, to sing His praise and magnify His Name, and when they end--these days of giving that precede the season of restraint--let them enter upon the Fast."

(p. 25)

"The letter 'Há' has been given several spiritual meanings in the Holy Writings, among which is as a symbol of the Essence of God.

(Note #28, p. 178)









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Ayyám-i-Há means the "Days of Há." "Há" is the Arabic letter corresponding to the English "H", and one of the three Arabic letters which make up the word "Bahá." Both Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb followed the Arabic tradition of assigning numerical values to letters, and of giving spiritual meanings to both. The numerical value of "Há" is 5, the sum of the numerical values of the letters in the "Báb," and the maximum number of intercalary days.

"Há" is also the first letter of an Arabic pronoun commonly used in Arabic religious writings to refer to God, or "the Divine Essence." "Há" by itself is used as a symbol of "the Essence of God," and was the subject of many an Arabic essay on its mysteries. In Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet of All Food the realm "beyond which there is no passing," or the realm of the Divine Essence is designated as "Háhut." In the Báb's interpretation of the letter "Há" (quoted by Bahá'u'lláh in the Kitáb-i-Iqán), the Báb speaks of martyrdom in the path of God and warns "even if all the kings of the earth were to be leagued together they would be powerless to take from me a single letter..."

Bahá'u'lláh has designated the intercalary days "amid all the nights and days" as manifestations of the letter Há"--that is, as Days of the Divine Essence. These extra days stand apart from the ordinary cycle of weeks and months and the human measure of time. They are not "bounded by the limits of the year and its months"--just as the infinite reality of the divine Essence of God is unbounded and cannot be captured or comprehended within the cycle of time or any other human measurement.

Ayym-i-H: Days Outside of Time

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An interesting assortment of Ayyam-i-Ha cards are found on Zazzle:

Ayyam I Ha Greeting Cards, Note Cards and Ayyam I Ha Greeting Card Templates

Some from Blue Mountain:

Baha'i eCards | Blue Mountain

From Special Ideas:

Ayyam-I-ha Golden Rule Cards

but of course some of the best cards are homemade and free....

Some crafts for Ayyam-i-Ha:

Ayyam-i-Ha Crafts - Tao Of Craft