Friday, November 28, 2025

Laws of the Bab pertaining to number Nineteen in the Bayan (Arabic)

The doors (gates/Babs) of the religion were fixed at the number nineteen.
The total number of units (wahid) in the Bayan should ideally be nineteen, though only eleven units were revealed by the Báb.
Each of the revealed Units of the Bayan contains nineteen doors.
The Letters of the Living (Huruf Hayy) are nineteen in number (comprising the Point/Báb and the eighteen Letters).
The complete daily prayer (Salat) consists of nineteen rak'ahs (cycles of prayer) performed from noon to noon, single rak'ah by single rak'ah.

The year is fixed at nineteen months.
A teacher's wife is forbidden to him for nineteen days if he strikes beyond the prescribed limit of five blows. If the teacher does not have a wife, the penalty is a financial fine: he must pay nineteen mithqals of gold to the individual he struck.
A murderer's wives are forbidden to him for nineteen years.
If someone orders another's expulsion from his home or land, his wife is forbidden to him for nineteen months.
The mandatory purification ritual for those residing near the site (up to 66 farsakhs) where the Báb was struck must last nineteen days.
After divorce, reconciliation is permitted up to nineteen times, following a one-month delay.
One must consider replacing household utensils and furnishings (asbáb) every nineteen years.

At a child's birth, after saying Allahu Akbar five times while standing, statements of faith/contentment/creation by God are repeated nineteen times.
When praying for the deceased, various glorifications are recited nineteen times after each of the six takbirs (glorifications).
In formal gatherings, room must be left for the equivalent of nineteen people.
Every nineteen days, one must invite nineteen people or at least offer them water.
The Azan (call to prayer) ritual is divided into five parts throughout the day, and in each part, the phrase "There is no god but God" and a divine attribute are repeated nineteen times.

The minimum standard coin weight (mithqal) is fixed at nineteen nakhuds (chickpeas).
The Bayani Sultan must fix the price of nineteen nakhuds of gold at 10,000 dinars and nineteen nakhuds of silver at 1,000 dinars.
The dowry (mahr) can be reduced to nineteen mithqals (gold or silver), but the reduction must be made in increments of nineteen.
The pilgrim tax requires giving four mithqals of gold to the nineteen guardians of the House of God.
If a believer possesses more than nineteen books/volumes (excluding the authorized 19 volumes), they must pay nineteen mithqals of gold.
If someone violates the ban on sitting in the center of a gathering, they must pay nineteen mithqals of gold.
If someone railles (mocks) at a believer, they must pay nineteen mithqals of gold (or silver).
If someone writes a word to Him Whom God shall make manifest that is other than what is revealed in the Bayan before His manifestation, it is obligatory for him to pay a fine of nineteen mithqals of gold.
A mute person unable to say the Azan must compensate with nineteen mithqals of white sugar. The sugar is given to someone who will be responsible for saying the Azan for him.
The 20% tax must be made to reach Him Whom God Shall Make Manifest. HWGSMM is commanded to distribute this fund to the nineteen Letters of Living.

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