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The Baha'i religion does not have any religious rites or ceremonies?
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The Baha'i Faith has numerous rituals, both individual and collective.
Individual Bahai ritual behaviour includes
- daily prayer and meditation, partly performed as the individual wishes, and partly in set forms (with prescribed movements and facing the Qiblah; sitting in a particular posture to recite the 'greatest name.'
- pilgrimmage
- fasting for one 19-day period each year, from sunrise to sunset
- giving to the Bahai Fund and the Huqullah, described in a study by Margit Warburg as a ritual of giving
Collective rituals include:
- devotional meetings, sometimes referred to as dawn prayers or the Mashriqu'l-adhkar gathering
- the 19 day feast (not a feast that lasts 19 days, but a community meeting held once every 19 days
- rites of passage, such as wedding and funerals. The latter is accompanied by a prescribed prayer said in a particular manner, and a ritual for washing and wrapping the body, placing a ring on the finger of the deceased, etc. However the prescribed wedding ceremony is very brief, allowing a maximum of latitude for inculturation.
- Holy Days commemorating significant events in the history of the Babi and Bahai Faiths, and the Bahai New Year. The latter is often celebrated with Persian cultural rituals such as the haft-sin table, but this is a cultural borrowing, not a Bahai religious practice: there is no religious significance to performing it or failing to do so.
There are also numerous "little rituals": ritual material in the Bahai Writings which the individual may opt to practice, for example, a naming ceremony for a newborn child, table prayers before and after eating. Here the performance of the ritual has a religious meaning for the individual, family or group, but non-performance would not be religiously significant. In contrast, failing to attend Feasts, say the daily obligatory prayer or have a Bahai wedding ceremony would be regarded by the individual as a failing, and might affect that person's membership status in the Bahai community).
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