"Health and Healing: A Baha'i Perspective

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Sunday, 4 March 2007

TO BE HAPPY


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"Health and Healing: A Baha'i Perspective

The Baha'i teachings offer solace and hope for those who are ill and guidance for maintaining health. Human beings are seen as fundamentally spiritual in nature. Although we exist in physical bodies during our journey on earth, the essential identity of each person is defined by an invisible, rational, and everlasting soul. The physical body is the temple of one's soul and should be respected and cared for, but neither physical or mental illness interfere with our spiritual progress.

"Know thou that the soul of man is exalted above, and is independent of all infirmities of body or mind. That a sick person showeth signs of weakness is due to the hindrances that interpose themselves between his soul and his body, for the soul itself remaineth unaffected by any bodily ailments."(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, pp.153-54)

Health and healing can be seen as having two components: spiritual and physical. Medical science is humanity's tool for understanding our physical nature while offering prayers and turning to our Creator facilitates spiritual healing.
"There are two ways of healing sickness, material means and spiritual means. The first is by the treatment of physicians; the second consisteth in prayers offered by the spiritual ones to God and in turning to Him. Both means should be used and practised. Illnesses which occur by reason of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual means...."(Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, pp 151-52)

We can help to maintain our health with adequate rest, relaxation, a moderate lifestyle, and good nutrition. When suffering and ill health do occur we can often see it as an opportunity in adversity.
"Often physical sickness draws man nearer unto his Maker, suffers his heart to be made empty from all worldly desires until it becomes tender and sympathetic towards all sufferers and compassionate to all creatures...."(Elias Zohoori, The Throne of the Inner Temple, pp 20-1)

When our loved ones are ill, we can offer prayers for them, and cheer their hearts. "We should all visit the sick. When they are in sorrow or suffering it is a real help and benefit to have a friend come. Happiness is a great healer to those who are ill..." (Abdu'l-Baha, Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 149)

The Baha'i teachings offer an optimistic vision of a peaceful world where religion and science are seen as essential and complementary, and human health is seen as organic with the health of our environment. In the future the enormous resources now spent on war will be "consecrated to such ends as will extend the range of human inventions...to the extermination of disease, to the extension of scientific research, to the raising of the standard of physical health..." (Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Baha'u'llah, p. 204)
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