Bahá’í glossary of Arabic & Fársí transliteration Contents

Gregorian week days & months..

English	Arabic
Sunday	yawm al-aḥad
Monday	yawm al-ithnain
Tuesday	yawm ath-thalátá’
Wednesday	yawm al-arbi‘á’
Thursday	yawm al-khamís
Friday	yawm al-jum‘a
Saturday	yawm as-sabt

English	Foreign pronunciation	Arabic (Syr, Leb, Jord, Iran)
January	yanáyir, yaná’ir	kánún ath-thání
February	fabráyir	shubáṭ
March	mars	ádár
April	abril	nísán
May	máyú	ayyár
June	yúniyó and yúniya	ḥazírán
July	yúliyó and yúliya	tammúz
August	agustus	áb
September	sibtambir	ailúl
October	okctóbir	tishrín al-awwal
November	núfimbir	tishrín ath-thání
December	disembir, disambir	kánún al-awwal

Hands of the Cause of God..

Appointed by	Details
Bahá’u’lláh	Hájí Mullá ‘Alí-Akbar-i-Shahmírzádí (Hájí Ákhúnd) (1842–1910)
	Mírzá Muḥammad-Taqí (Ibn-i-Abhar) (d. 1917)
	Mírzá Ḥasan-i-Adíb (Adíb) (1848–1919)
	Mírzá ‘Alí-Muḥammad (Ibn-i-Aṣdaq)(d. 1928)
‘Abdu’l-Bahá	None, but named five people in Memorials of the Faithful (pp. 5–9) as having been Hands of the Cause. However, Mullá ‘Alí-Akbar was appointed by Bahá’u’lláh.
	Áqá Muḥammad-i-Qá’iní (Nabíl-i-Akbar)
	Mírzá ‘Alí-Muḥammad-i-Varqá
	Mullá Ṣádiq-i-Muqaddas (Ismu’lláhu’l-Aṣdaq)
	Shaykh Muḥammad Riḍáy-i-Yazdí
Shoghi Effendi	Ḥájjí Amín (1831–1928)
	John Ebenezer Esslemont (1874–1925)
Posthumous	Martha Root (1872–1939)
appointments	Keith Bean Ransom-Kehler (1876–1933)
	John Henry Hyde Dunn (1855–1941) (27 April 1951)
	Siyyid Muṣṭafá Rúmí (d. 1942)
	‘Abdu’l-Jalíl Bey Sa‘d (d. 1942)
	Muḥammad Taqíy-i-Iṣfahání (d. 1946)
	Roy C. Wilhelm (1875–1951)
	Louis George Gregory (1874–1951)
Shoghi Effendi	Holy Land: Sutherland Maxwell, Mason Remey (until 1960), Amelia Collins, President, Vice-President, International Baha’i Council
24–12–1951	Iran: Valiyu’lláh Varqá, Tarázu’lláh Samandarí, ‘Alí-Akbar Furútan
(twelve)	American continent: Horace Holley, Dorothy Baker, Leroy Ioas
	European continent: George Townshend, Hermann Grossmann, Ugo Giachery
Shoghi Effendi	Canada and United States: Fred Schopflocher and Corinne True (respectively)
29–02–1952	Iran: Dhikru’lláh Khádim, Shu‘á‘u’lláh ‘Alá’í
(seven)	Germany, Africa, Australia: Adelbert Mühlschlegel, Músá Banání, Clara Dunn (respectively)
Shoghi Effendi	Uganda: Enoch Olinga (1926–1979)
2–10–1957	West and South Africa: William Sears (1911–1992), and John Aldham Robarts (1901–1992)
(eight)	British Isles: Ḥasan Muvaqqar Balyuzi (1908–1980) and John Graham Ferraby (1914–1973)
	Pacific: Harold Collis Featherstone (1913–1990) and Raḥmátu’lláh Muhájir (1923–1979)
	Arabia: Abu’l-Qásim Fayḍí (Faizi) (1906–1980)
Shoghi Effendi	Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum (1910–2000) (March 1952)
(date)	Jalál Kházih (1897–1990) (December 1953)
	Paul Haney (1909–1982) (March 1954)
	‘Alí Muḥammad, son of Varqá (1911–2007) (November 1955)
	Miss Angus Baldwin Alexander (1875–1971) (March 1957)