Mandaean light fast (1 Qaina) · Ṣauma

Culture of origin: Mandaean · Cultural

Holiday sources: Mandaeism

The 1st of Qaina, the ninth Mandaean month and the day after the five days of Parwanaya, is a day of light fasting in Gelbert's Mandaean calendar table for 2005–06, which gives no reason for it. Mandaean light fasting is not a long fast without food or water; typically it means abstaining from meat on certain ominous (mbaṭṭal) days. Like every Mandaean date, it comes one Gregorian day earlier every four years.