Long Healing Prayer

__NOTOC__ Lawh-i-Anta'l-Kafi or the Long Healing Prayer is a prayer written in Arabic by Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith, in the 'Akká period. [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/rg/rg.leiden.html] The authorized English translation was done in 1980 by Habib Taherzadeh and a Committee at the Bahá'í World Centre. The main part of the prayer consists of numerous rhythmic invocations of God, each ending with the phrase "Thou the Sufficing, Thou the Healing, Thou the Abiding, O Thou Abiding One."

The prayer ends with a supplication for healing and protection, and includes the phrase "protect the bearer of this blessed Tablet, and whoso reciteth it, and whoso cometh upon it, and whoso passeth around the house wherein it is. Heal Thou, then, by it every sick, diseased and poor one", which gives this prayer its talismanic nature.

Other Bahá'í healing prayers

Bahá'u'lláh wrote several other healing prayers, including a prayer for women, one for infants, and a well-known short prayer starting with the phrase "Thy Name is my healing", which is part of Bahá'u'lláh's Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet to a Physician).

References

*cite book
author=Bahá'u'lláh
authorlink=Bahá'u'lláh
year=1862
title=Long Healing Prayer
publisher=Bahá'í Publishing Trust: 1991
location=Wilmette, Illinois, USA
id=ISBN 0877432856
url=http://www.bahaiprayers.org/healing6.htm

ee also

* Faith healing

External links

* [http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/BP/bp-80.html Text of the Long Healing Prayer]
* [http://www.longhealingprayer.com/ Sung version of the Long Healing Prayer]