Happy Fasting 2010

O Pen of the Most High! Say: O people of theworld! We have enjoined upon you fasting during a brief period, and at its close have designated for youNaw-Ruz as a feast. Thus hath the Day-Star ofUtterance shone forth above the horizon of the Book asdecreed by Him Who is the Lord of the beginning andthe end. Let the days in excess of the months be placedbefore the month of fasting. We have ordained thatthese, amid all nights and days, shall be the manifestationsof the letter Ha, and thus they have not beenbounded by the limits of the year and its months. Itbehoveth the people of Baha, throughout these days, toprovide good cheer for themselves, their kindred and,beyond them, the poor and needy, and with joy andexultation to hail and glorify their Lord, to sing Hispraise and magnify His Name; and when they end -- these days of giving that precede the season ofrestraint -- let them enter upon the Fast. Thus hath itbeen ordained by Him Who is the Lord of all mankind.The traveller, the ailing, those who are with child orgiving suck, are not bound by the Fast; they have beenexempted by God as a token of His grace. He, verily, isthe Almighty, the Most Generous.
(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 24)