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Long Healing Prayer

Long Healing Prayer is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Long Healing Prayer rather than just read about it. In short: Lawh-i-Anta'l-Kafi or the Long Healing Prayer (also known as Lawh-i-Shifá and Lawh al-Shafá al-Tawíl) is a prayer written in Arabic by Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Baháʼí Faith, in the 'Akká period. The authorized English translation was done in 1980 by Habib Taherzadeh and a Committee at the Baháʼí World Centre.

Key takeaways

Long Healing Prayer belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Long Healing Prayer to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Long Healing Prayer from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Lawh-i-Anta'l-Kafi or the Long Healing Prayer (also known as Lawh-i-Shifá and Lawh al-Shafá al-Tawíl) is a prayer written in Arabic by Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Baháʼí Faith, in the 'Akká period. The authorized English translation was done in 1980 by Habib Taherzadeh and a Committee at the Baháʼí 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.

In music Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen composed a piece of choral music for the Bergen International Music Festival in May 1996, in which the Long Healing Prayer was sung, first in the original Arabic and then in English.

Other Baháʼí healing prayers Baháʼu'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 Baháʼu'lláh's Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet to a Physician). There is also a prayer for protection from "calamity and pestilence" (epidemics).

See also Fire Tablet Tablet of Ahmad (Arabic) Tablet of the Holy Mariner Prayer in the Baháʼí Faith

References

Bibliography Baháʼu'lláh (1862). Long Healing Prayer. Wilmette, Illinois: Baháʼí Publishing Trust: 1991. ISBN 0877432856. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

External links Pschaida, Daniel (2020). Baha'u'llah's Long Healing Prayer: Parallel Translation. Sung version of the Long Healing Prayer (archived, 2016) BWNS: Praying for the sick – can science prove it helps? (2008)

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Long Healing Prayer

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Long Healing Prayer claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Long Healing Prayer before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Long Healing Prayer ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Long Healing Prayer

In research: Long Healing Prayer appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Long Healing Prayer in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Long Healing Prayer is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Baháʼí prayer, Baháʼí stubs, Religion and health, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Long Healing Prayer outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Long Healing Prayer in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Long Healing Prayer means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Long Healing Prayer out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Long Healing Prayer in simple terms?

Why does Long Healing Prayer matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Long Healing Prayer?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Long Healing Prayer.