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Membership Numbers
over 5 million Baha'i s in 236 countries around the world today.
Baha'i
Rituals
- pray daily (personal prayers, recited prayers)
- mediataion daily (end of each day)- choose their own meditation
- Houses of worship (music, prayers, read)
- Fasting- during the month preceding the New Year (no food or drinks between sunrise and sunsets)
Holy Days & Anniversaries
Belief
How & When it started
- They believe in fixing the future and having the same ideas in what they need
- believe that the universe is eternal, that it always existed
- recommend medicine, but believe prayers will do the healing
- found in Iran in mid 19th century
- young Persian named Siyyid Aly-Muhammad (Bab)
- announced that he had a revelation that would change the spiritual life of humanity
- Baha'i= Baha'ullah "Glory of God" (Christianity= Jesus Christ)
Baha'i Symbol
The Baha'i symbol of faith is a nine-pointed star. It has nine points because nine is the highest symbol digit number and to them, it symbolizes completeness.
Image by Tom Mooring