Days of the Week (faith, God, Article, Baha'i)

[Bishka]

I was reading and article on the Baha'i Faith on wikipedia and it mentioned that the days of the week have specific names such as Glory, Perfection, etc.
Could someone explain this to me? And the reasoning behind it? Thanks!

[arthra]

Hi Becky!

Thanks for the great question!

The Bab revealed the calendar that is by and large still in use by Baha'is... We call it the Badi Calendar and it has nineteen months with nineteen days in each month which comes out to 361 days... We add four days for the full 365 day calendar or five days to make up on leap years..

The hallmark of the Badi calendar is that each day and month is named after an attribute of God...this keeps our focus on glorifying God every day of the year...

See the following:

Calendar Badi Bahai

You'll note the days in our Gregorian calendar are still named after gods like wodens day (Wednesday) or Thors day for Thursday and so on...