A collection of excerpts containing chronologically issued answers to some of the questions submitted by individual believers and institutions

1/05/2017

In high latitudes permissible to go by the clock – for Feasts, Holy Days, Fast - October 28, 1971

As to whether the celebrating of the Feasts, Holy Days and the Fast should follow the rising and the setting of sun, in the high latitudes it is permissible to go by the clock. 
- The Universal House of Justice  (From letter dated 28 October 1971 to the National Teaching Committee of Iceland, published in Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, No. 213, May 1972; compilation: ‘Lights of Guidance’)