He feels that although the physicians have found the disease
too advanced, and pronounced her condition as hopeless, you should still
endeavour, by means of sustained and concentrated prayer, to bring about her
cure. Now that no material effort can be of any effectiveness you still have
one more way open before you, namely that of prayer, and you should therefore
continue to supplicate from all your heart that, if it be Gods Will, your
mother may be restored to full health, and regain all her forces.
Bahá’u’lláh has revealed special prayers for both spiritual
and material healing, and it is therefore your bounden duty to use such prayers
on behalf of your mother, and thus put all your trust in the all-sustaining and
all-healing power of God. It matters not whether you are endowed with high
spirituality or not. The essential is that you pray with sincerity and with
full purity of heart, and with the one desire of knowing and accepting His
Will.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 22 April 1938 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to
an individual believer; ‘Messages to Canada’)
