Translation:Qolasta/Oxford Collection/Part 1/Prayer 14

by Mark Lidzbarski

XIV.

In the name of the great life

be glorified the noble light.

On Sunday, the head of the days,

Who saw what I saw?

Who saw Mandā d-Haijē,

who went and came into the world?

He went and came into the world,

the earth lies there and trembles.

He carries forward, his voice is sweet,

and he raised up speech in his mouth.

He set up the speech in his mouth,

he threw the world over the heap and left it.

He threw over the heap and left the world,

Rūhā therefore sits mourning.

Grieving, Rūhā sits there,

the Seven sit there in confusion.

They weep and long their lamentation,

because their secret has been revealed.

Because their secret has been revealed,

they will come to an end on the great day of the end.

Namrus feared and was afraid;

her weapons fell from her shoulder.

From her shoulder fell her weapons,

the bows from her palm.

Rūhā speaks to her sons,

she speaks to the vain fiends:

"My sons! If fear befalls your mother,

what will you seven do?

When the strange man comes,

who will confront him?"

A mace of splendor is in the hand of Mandā d-Haijē,

he approaches the rebels and throws them down.

Bar-Haijē [the Son of Life] raised his voice

and spoke to.... of the seven:

"I have brought merchandise to my friends,

truthful words to the believers.

To the men who buy my merchandise,

their merits will be wound around their heads.

Their merits will be wound around their heads,

and they shall ascend,

beholding the place of light".

The life is held high and is victorious,

and victorious is the man who went here.

Transcription

b-šumaihun ḏ-hiia rbia

mraurab nhura šania

b-habšaba b-riš iumia

manu hza ḏ-ana hzit

man ḏ-hiziẖ l-manda ḏ-hiia

ḏ-asgia atalẖ l-alma

asgia l-alma atalẖ

rmˁia arqa u-mištarhza

dariš u-basim qalẖ

u-traṣlẖ b-pumẖ mamla

mamla traṣlẖ b-pumẖ

u-qarqil šibqẖ l-alma

qarqil l-alma šibqẖ

ruha b-malia iatba

ruha iatba b-malia

u-šuba b-tihma iatbia

bakin u-nagdin ˁblaihun

aminṭul ḏ-razaihun ˁtiglia

aminṭul ḏ-ˁtiglia razaihun

misap saipia l-iuma rba ḏ-sup

haqat u-zahat namrus

zaina mn kadpa npal

zaina npal mn kadpa

u-qaštata mn psan ˁda

ruha l-bna timar

l-maštuṣia baṭlia timarlun

bnai kḏ ˁmaikun hauqa miṭia

anatun šuba mahu tibdun

kḏ atia gbar nukraia

man niqumlẖ l-qudamẖ

akla ḏ-ziua b-idẖ ḏ-manda ḏ-hiia mkabiš u-atia mardia

b-rhiia tirṣẖ l-qalẖ

u-l-paṭur šuba ḏ-nimarlun

ana zibna l-rahmai atit

u-mamlalia kšiṭia l-mhaimnia

gubria ḏ-zabnia zibnai

zakuatun b-rišaihun mitgadlan

zakuatun mitgadlan b-rišaihun u-salqia hazilẖ l-atar nhur

mištaiin hiia u-zakin

u-zakia gabra ḏ-asgia lka

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