Bahá’u’lláh’s “Long Healing Prayer” (“Lawḥ-i-Anta’l-Káfí”) in Light of a Metaphysics of Unity

Designated as having “a special potency and significance,” the Long Healing Prayer or “Lawḥ-i-Anta’l-Káfí” calls on 119 names of God in second-person invocations, supplicating spiritual forces for healing, protection, guidance. While acknowledging those elements Islamic worship with which this prayer engages, author explores originality deep coherence expressed by its rhyme schemes, frequent alliterations, structures organized around number nineteen. Overall, article aims to shed light how functions an invitation meditate God’s names—names not only give shape human capacity recognize ultimately unknowable God, but also represent Bahá’ís underlying significance physical reality a metaphysics unity wholeness.