Translations:Yirmi Beşinci Lem'a/103/en
The acceptability of the prayers of the sick is an important matter. For the past thirty or forty years, I myself have prayed to be cured from the illness of lumbago from which I suffer. However, I understood that the illness had been given for prayer. Since prayer cannot be removed by prayer; that is, since prayer cannot remove itself, I understood that the results of prayer pertain to the hereafter,(*[1]) and that it is a sort of worship, for through illness one understands one’s impotence and seeks refuge at the divine court. Therefore, although for thirty years I have offered supplications to be healed and apparently my prayer has not been accepted, it has not occurred to me to give it up.
- ↑ *Yes, while certain illnesses are the reason for the existence of supplication, if the supplication is the cause of the illness’ non-existence, the existence of the supplication would be the cause of its own non-existence, and this could not be the case.