Birth of Bahá'u'lláh

Culture of origin: Bahá’í · Cultural

Holiday sources: Bahá'í Faith · Iran

Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith, was born Ḥusayn-ʻAlí in Tehran on 12 November 1817, into an aristocratic family. Since 2015 Bahá'ís keep his birth on the second day after the eighth new moon following Naw-Rúz, the day after the Birth of the Báb, so the Twin Holy Birthdays move between mid-October and mid-November. Bahá'u'lláh wrote that the two birthdays "are accounted as one in the sight of God". On 1 and 2 November 2016, the Twin Holy Birthdays, the Islamic Republic's authorities sealed more than one hundred Bahá'í-owned businesses in Sari, Ghaemshahr, Bandar Abbas and other cities, because their owners had closed them for the holy days (Bahá'í World News Service).