Bayanic Calendar
1. Introduction
The Bayanic calendar is introduced in the Persian Bayan. It has 19 months. Each month has 19 days. Therefore the number of days in a year is 361 days that is 4-5 days shorter than the solar year and about 6 days longer than the lunar year. This is almost the average of the number of days in lunar and solar years.
The significance of this structure is that the number of months and number of days are based on number 19, the basis for most of the Bayanic provisions. A Unity or Wahid is equivalent to number 19 based on Abjad notation. The number 361 is equivalent to the 'Number of All things' i.e. 19 X 19. For more information please visit the science of letters.
According to the Bayan, the beginning of the Bayanic manifestation happened at 2 hours and eleven minutes past the 5th of the first Jamdi of 1260 (23rd May 1844). According to the Persian Bayan, this was the beginning of a six years period of the resurrection of Islam which ended on the 8th July 1850 A.D (27th Sha’ban 1266 A.H), the day that the Primal Point was martyred.
2. The origin of Bayanic Era
Therefore 23rd May 1844 was not the origin of the Bayanic Era. According to the Book of '5 Path' by the Primal Point, the origin was precisely 6 years later, i.e. 5th first Jamadi 1266 A.H coinciding with 20th March 1850 or 29th Esfand 1228 of Persian calendar.
3. The structure of the Bayanic Calendar
As mentioned before, there are 19 days in every one of the 19 months of a Bayanic year. Every month has a name. Every day also has a name but its name is the sane as the month with equal number. For example the name of the first days is the same as the name of the first month and so forth. The number of days in the Bayanic calendar is fixed and does not vary.
Month Names:
| Number | Month | |
| 1 | Splendour | شهر البهاء |
| 2 | Glory | شهر الجلاال |
| 3 | Beauty | شهر الجمال |
| 4 | Grandeur | شهر العضمت |
| 5 | Light | شهر النور |
| 6 | Compassion | شهر الرحمت |
| 7 | Words | شهر الکلمات |
| 8 | Perfection | شهر الکمال |
| 9 | Names | شهر الأسماء |
| 10 | Might | شهر العزّت |
| 11 | Will | شهر المشیت |
| 12 | Knowledge | شهر العلم |
| 13 | Power | شهر القدرت |
| 14 | Utterance | شهر القول |
| 15 | Questions | شهر المسائل |
| 16 | Honour | شهر الشرف |
| 17 | Sovereignty | شهر السلطان |
| 18 | Dominion | شهر المٌلک |
| 19 | Loftiness | شهر العلاء |
| Day | ||
| Saturday: | Glory | جلال |
| Sunday: | Beauty | جمال |
| Monday: | Perfection | کمال |
| Tuesday: | Grace | فضال |
| Wednesday: | Justice | عدال |
| Thursday: | Majesty | استجلال |
| Friday: | Independence | استقلال |
4. Feast Days
| Occasion | Christian Calendar | Islamic Calendar | Bayanic Calendar | Reference |
| Birth Day of His Highness The Primal Point. | 9 / 10 / 1820 | 1 / 1 / 1236 | 1 / 5 / 30 Before B.E | Persian Bayan |
| Completion of Fasting Month. The Bayani new year day. The ‘Day of God, the most Mighty’. The most important day in Bayanic calendar | 20 / 2 / 1850 | 5 / 5 / 1266 | 1 / 1 / 1 | 5 Paths (By Primal Point) |
| Manifestation of Subh-i Azal. | 13 / 4 / 1850 | 30 / 5 / 1266 | 6 / 2 / 1 | Subh-i Azal |
| Manifestation of Quddous | 31 / 8 / 1847 | 20 / 9 / 1263 | 2 / 9 /3 Before BE | Athar-al Qodusiyya, Subh-i Azal |
| Day of Glad Tidings | 24 / 6 / 1864 | 19 / 1 / 1281 | 5 / 9 /15 | Subh-i Azal |
| Sanctity of Azal | 7 / 11 / 1864 | 7 / 11 / 1281 | 8 / 16 / 15 | Subh-i Azal |
| Day of Cheerfulness & Delight | 6 / 1 / 1865 | 8 / 8 / 1281 | 10 / 19 /15 | Subh-i Azal |
| Commune | 9 / 9 / 1870 | 13 / 6 / 1287 | 12 / 14 / 21 | Subh-i Azal |
| Living | 24 / 12 / 1868 | 10 / 9 / 1285 | 15 / 19 / 19 | Subh-i Azal |
| 50th Aniversary of Subh-i Azal's Manifestation | 14 / 3 / 1898 | 24 / 12 / 1276 | 9 / 11 / 49 | Subh-i Azal |
5. Days of Mourning
| Occasion | Christian Calendar | Islamic Calendar | Bayanic Calendar | Reference |
| Martyrdom of His Holiness The Primal Point | 8 / 7 / 1850 | 27 / 8 / 1266 | 16 / 6 / 1 | Nuqtat-al Kaf |
| Martyrdom of Great Wahid (Sayyid Yahya of Darab) | 9 / 7 1850 | 28 / 8 / 1266 | 17 / 6 / 1 | Nuqtat-al Kaf |
| Martyrdom of His Holiness Qoddus | 24 / 5 / 1849 | 1 / 7 / 1265 | 5 / 4 / 1 Before B.E | Nuqtat-al Kaf |
| Martyrdom of Bab-al Bab (Master of the Martyrs) | 3 / 2 / 1849 | 9 / 3 / 1265 | 9 / 17 / 2 Before B.E | Nuqtat-al Kaf |
| Martyrdom of His Holiness Hujjat (The Proof of God) | 23 / 12 /1850 | 9 / 2 / 1267 | 13 / 15 / 1 | History of Zanjan |
| Martyrdom of Her Holiness Tahira and other Martyrs of Teheran | 15 / 9 / 1852 | 30 / 11 / 1268 | 18 / 10 / 3 | Newspaper: Vaqaye Itefaqiyye |
| Ascension of His Holiness Subh-i Azal | 29 / 4 / 1912 | 11 / 5 / 1330 | 19 / 16 / 63 | Rizvan-Ali's letter to Prof. Browne |
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