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The most commonly used Bahá'í symbol is the 9 pointed star. The significance of the number "nine" comes from several sources. One of the sacred languages of the Bahá'í holy texts is Arabic, whose alphabet can be used to represent numbers, attaching a numerical value to words. The numerical value of Bahá’ is 9.
The Greatest Name, or more fully, the calligraphy of the Greatest Name of God, is another Bahá'í symbol. It is an Arabic calligraphic rendering of "Yá Bahá'ul 'Abhá" (يا بهاء الأبهى usually translated as "O Glory of the Most Glorious!"). This rendering was originally drawn by the eminent early Bahá'í calligrapher Mishkin Qalam, and later adopted by Bahá'ís everywhere.
