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View submission: Non-bahai wishing to understand bahai holidays so I can be nice to my neighbor
As the other poster wrote, Ayyám-i-Há is our gift giving season in February.
Our Most Great Festival is Ridván (a 12 day festival) but we don’t usually give gifts. We have gatherings and celebrations on the 1st, 9th and 12th days of Ridván.
The Baha’i New Year is Naw-Rúz, which is usually on the 20th or 21st of March. This is ALSO the Iranian New Year. In Iran, there are many non-Baha’i practices which a lot of Iranian Baha’is also keep. For Iranian Baha’is, Naw-Rúz is also a time of gift giving. Since your friend is Iranian, she may also appreciate a gift on Naw-Rúz. For Iranians in general (not just Baha’is), it is the most important day of the year, and they celebrate it for more than one day. People in Iran don’t work for a week or two, if I recall correctly. So that’s closer to the Iranian version of Christmas.
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