What is Rahmat
What is Rahmat
Rahmat - one of the holidays of the Bahá'ís, adherentsthe youngest of the main religions in the world, having their own scriptures. Yearbook of the British Encyclopedia at the end of the twentieth century estimated the number of followers of the exercise of 6.67 million people.
The forerunner of the appearance of the Baha'is were events,occurred in the territory of modern Iran in the middle of the XIX century. The young man Seyyid Ali-Muhammad, who remained in history under the name of the Bab, proclaimed himself the bearer of divine revelation and predicted that the envoy of God would soon come to Earth. The Islamic clergy did not like these sermons and it pressed the Persian government to the point that after six years of persecution the Bab was shot. In addition, around 20 thousand of his followers were executed throughout Persia. One of Bab's disciples - Persian aristocrat Mirza Hussein Ali - was not executed, but lost all his property and was deported to Iraq. There, in Tehran, he declared himself the messenger of God, about whose coming the Bab was speaking. After that he was exiled first to Constantinople, then to Adrianople and further to Akko, a city in the territory of modern Israel. By that time, many of the rulers of that time knew him as Bahá'u'lláh, which means God's glory. He wrote letters to them, calling them to recognize him as the Promised One, foretold by all religions. Bahá'u'lláh became the author of the sacred texts and the founder of the Bahá'í religion. It is based on the unity of God for all peoples. All the major world religions originated from one source and are integral parts of a single Faith. It's time for mankind to unite in a single peaceful global society. At present, the followers of the teachings of Baha'u'llah are on all continents of the world. The Baha'is have a nineteen-month calendar, and every nineteenth day there are holidays, the structure of which was defined by the great-grandson of Baha'u'llah, Shoghi Efendi. They consist of the spiritual, administrative and social parts. On June 24, 2012, the Baha'is celebrate the Day of the Nineteenth Day - Rahmat. On this day, believers read prayers, reflect on the sublime, deal with issues of the community and the world order, and in the social part engage in communication with each other.
