No. 104 of 124 · A Name of God · The Long Healing Prayer
The Most Trusted
When every human assurance feels fragile, this name of God points to the one foundation that does not shift.
I call on Thee O the Most Trusted, O the Best Lover, O Lord of the Dawn! Thou the Sufficing, Thou the Healing, Thou the Abiding, O Thou Abiding One! Bahá'u'lláh, The Long Healing Prayer · read the full prayer
Plain meaning · Trusted
from “trust”: 1. Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance. "O ever-failing trust in mortal strength!" Milton. Most take things upon trust. Locke. 2. Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust. 3. Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief. "Such trust have we through Christ." 2 Cor. iii. 4. …
Definition from Webster's Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain). When these Writings were translated into English, the translator relied on Webster's New International Dictionary, 1934 edition, of the same Webster's tradition. source
What “The Most Trusted” means
The meaning above is the plain dictionary definition of the word. What follows reflects on it as a name of God, offered for your own contemplation, and not as an authoritative interpretation of the Bahá'í Writings, which rests with ‘Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi alone.
To call God 'The Most Trusted' is to say something quite precise: not merely that God is trustworthy in a general sense, but that divine trustworthiness surpasses every other claim on our confidence. Human beings place trust in doctors, in loved ones, in their own judgment, in the accumulated knowledge of science, and much of that trust is well founded. Yet each of these rests on something partial and finite. The name 'The Most Trusted' points beyond all of that, toward a reliability that is absolute because it belongs to the source of existence itself.
There is a quietly radical quality to this name. Trust, as we ordinarily experience it, is built slowly through evidence and experience. We extend it carefully and sometimes withdraw it when we are hurt. But the divine trust this name invokes is of a different order entirely. It is not trust that was earned in the ordinary way or that can be broken by circumstance. It names a characteristic woven into the nature of God, a faithfulness that does not depend on conditions being favorable or outcomes being what we hoped for.
In many spiritual traditions the experience of illness, loss, or crisis strips away surface-level certainties and forces a reckoning with what, at the deepest level, we actually lean on. This name meets that moment directly. It does not minimize the difficulty of the situation; it simply asserts that beneath every difficulty there is a ground of trustworthiness that holds. To sit with this name in prayer is to practice, however haltingly, redirecting the weight of our anxiety onto something that can bear it.
Calling on The Most Trusted for healing
When the body is ill, or when the mind is exhausted by worry about illness, our own or someone we love, it is natural to feel unmoored. Medical news is uncertain, treatments are imperfect, and the future refuses to show itself clearly. Calling on God as 'The Most Trusted' in this condition is not a way of bypassing practical care; it is a way of placing that care within a larger frame. Please do consult your physicians and follow their guidance, that is wisdom, not a failure of faith. But alongside that practical action, this name offers something medicine cannot supply on its own: a place to put the fear that remains after you have done everything medically reasonable, the fear that no prescription can fully quiet.
Praying this name is a form of practice in surrender, not passive resignation, but the active, effortful work of choosing to lean on God's wisdom rather than demanding that events conform to our preferences. The Bahá'í teachings are clear that healing prayers encompass both the physical and the spiritual, and that the outcome belongs to a wisdom greater than ours. Healing may come swiftly, slowly, partially, or in forms we did not anticipate. Holding 'The Most Trusted' in the heart during that uncertainty is a way of affirming, again and again, that we are not alone in it, that the one we are addressing is genuinely, permanently, unshakeably reliable, even when the path forward is not yet visible to us.
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Living the Word
Applying The Most Trusted in your life
A name of God is a virtue to grow into. Where is The Most Trusted being asked of you right now, and how will you practice it? Keep a short note each time you return, and watch your own path with this name take shape over time. It stays on this device.
In the Bahá'í Writings
“15.3O 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. 15.4O handmaid of God! The power of the Holy Spirit healeth both physical and spiritual ailments. Acquiring Divine Virtues”
Read in full at bahai.org →“God Is the Great Compassionate Physician Who Alone Gives True Healing October 19th All true healing comes from God! There are two causes for sickness, one is material, the other spiritual. If the sickness is of the body, a material remedy is needed, if of the soul, a spiritual remedy. If the heavenly benediction be upon us while we are being healed then only can we be made whole, for medicine is but the outward and visible means through which we obtain the heavenly healing. Unless the spirit be healed, the cure of the body is worth nothing. All is in the hands of God, and without Him there can be no health in us! There have been many men who have died at last of the very disease of which they have made a special study. Aristotle, for instance, who made a special study of the digestion, died of a gastric malady. Avicenna was a specialist of the heart, but he died of heart disease. God is the great compassionate Physician who alone has the power to give true healing. All creatures are dependent upon God, however great may seem their knowledge, power and independence.”
Read in full at bahai.org →“‘Say, all is from God’ is a sound and sufficient argument, and ‘if God toucheth thee with a hurt there is no dispeller thereof save Him’ is a healing medicine.””
Read in full at bahai.org →Questions about The Most Trusted
- Does calling God 'The Most Trusted' in this prayer guarantee that I will be healed?
- No, and the Bahá'í teachings are gently clear on this point. Healing prayers are understood to embrace both physical and spiritual dimensions, and the outcome rests in a divine wisdom that sometimes sees things differently than we do. This name is an invitation to place genuine trust in God's care, not a formula that secures a predetermined result. If you are dealing with a medical condition, please work with competent healthcare providers alongside your prayers.
- Why is this name paired with 'O Best Lover' and 'O Lord of the Dawn' in the same line?
- The prayer clusters several names together in a single breath, and while we should be careful not to read too much into the arrangement, there is something naturally cohesive about these three. Trust, love, and the quality of dawn, renewal after darkness, weave together into a single gesture of turning toward God. Each name illuminates a different facet of the same reality: that the one we rely on also cherishes us and is the source of every new beginning.
- How is 'The Most Trusted' different from simply saying God is reliable?
- Reliability is a functional quality, we say a car or a bridge is reliable when it performs consistently. 'The Most Trusted' carries more personal weight. Trust implies a relationship, a choosing to lean on someone, a vulnerability on our part met by faithfulness on theirs. The superlative form, most trusted, suggests this is not one trustworthy thing among others but the very ground of trustworthiness from which all other reliable things draw their character.
- Can I use just this name in personal prayer, or should I recite the whole Long Healing Prayer?
- The Bahá'í writings encourage the recitation of the prayer as revealed, and there is value in praying the whole text. At the same time, meditating on individual names throughout the day as a form of remembrance is a natural and widely practiced spiritual habit. There is no official ruling here, let your own sincerity and circumstance guide you, and when possible return to the full prayer.
Listen to, recite, and reflect on the whole prayer, its more than one hundred names of God.
Hear the Long Healing Prayer