O handmaid of God! The prayers which were revealed to ask
for healing apply both to physical and spiritual healing. Recite them, then, to
heal both the soul and the body. If healing is right for the patient, it will
certainly be granted; but for some ailing persons, healing would only be the
cause of other ills, and therefore wisdom doth not permit an affirmative answer
to the prayer.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)