"Say: The Most Great Festival is, indeed, the King of Festivals. Call ye to mind, O people, the bounty which God hath conferred upon you. Ye were sunk in slumber, and lo! He aroused you by the reviving breezes of His Revelation, and made known unto you His manifest and undeviating Path."
- Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 60
"The two designated by Bahá’u’lláh as “the two Most Great Festivals” are, first, the Festival of Ridván, which commemorates Bahá’u’lláh’s Declaration of His Prophetic Mission in the Garden of Ridván in Baghdád during twelve days in April/May 1863 and is referred to by Him as “the King of Festivals” and, second, the Báb’s Declaration, which occurred in May 1844 in Shíráz. The first, ninth and twelfth days of the Festival of Ridván are Holy Days, as is the day of the Declaration of the Báb (May 22).
- Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, pp. 224-225 (notes of explanation on the above passage)
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