Disease is of two kinds: material and spiritual. Take for
instance, a cut hand; if you pray for the cut to be healed and do not stop its
bleeding, you will not do much good; a material remedy is needed. Sometimes if
the nervous system is paralyzed through fear, a spiritual remedy is necessary.
Madness, incurable otherwise, can be cured through prayer. It often happens
that sorrow makes one ill, this can be cured by spiritual means.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Notes of conversations; ‘Abdu’l-Baha in London’)
