Translation:Qolasta/Oxford Collection/Part 1/Prayer 24


 * XXIV.
 * Where are you going, man of tried righteousness,
 * for whom all his friends desire?
 * All your friends desire you,
 * and wish to have your likeness among them. -
 * I have gone to build a structure
 * beyond in the world.
 * I built, I erected it
 * and set it up on top of the cloud.
 * I planted in it plants of life,
 * true believing men.
 * I command my builder,
 * the man who guards the construction.
 * I command my builder:
 * Direct your eyes to my plants.
 * Turn your eyes on my plants,
 * so that they do not lie dormant
 * and the good forget what they have been commanded to do.
 * The man called out to the world,
 * from one end of the world to the other.
 * The man called out to the world, saying:
 * Hail to him who takes care of himself.
 * A man who takes care of himself has no equal in the world.
 * The men who stand firm live,
 * but perish, those who turn away.
 * Those who turn away perish,
 * but those who remain firm find steadfastness.
 * Hold fast to your olive staff
 * and endure the persecution of the world.
 * Endure the persecution of the world
 * With a true, believing heart.
 * Worship me in uprightness,
 * that I may stand and be a helper to you,
 * a helper and a support from the place of darkness
 * to the place of light.


 * And life is victorious.

Transcription

 * lia azlit bhir zidqa
 * ḏ-baiilak kulhun rahmak
 * kulhun rahmak baiilak
 * u-baiin dmutak binatun
 * ana ˁzlit l-miban binta
 * l-hil b-gauẖ ḏ-alma
 * banta u-bananta
 * u-tirṣit b-riš banana
 * štiliba šitlia hiia
 * gubria kšiṭia u-mhaimnia
 * ana l-banai mpaqdanalẖ
 * l-gabra ḏ-naṭar binta
 * ana l-banai mpaqdanalẖ
 * ḏ-ainak ˁl šitlai truṣ
 * ainak truṣ ˁl šitlai
 * ˁdilma naimia u-šakbia
 * u-minišiin ṭabia ḏ-paqdia
 * gabra l-alma qralẖ
 * mn rišiẖ l-rišiẖ ḏ-alma
 * gabra l-alma qralẖ
 * u-amar
 * ṭubẖ l-man ḏ-b-napšiẖ nizdahar gabra ḏ-mizdahar b-napšiẖ
 * laiit ḏ-akuatẖ b-alma
 * gubria ḏ-mašria hiia
 * misap saipia ḏ-apkia
 * halin ḏ-apkˁ saipia
 * u-dmašria šrara maškia
 * ašar b-margnaikun
 * subluia l-ridpa ḏ-alma
 * l-ridpa ḏ-alma subluia
 * b-liba kšiṭa u-mhaimna
 * sgudulẖ b-triṣuta
 * ḏ-ˁqum ˁhuilkun b-ahid ˁda
 * ahid ˁda u-simaka
 * mn atra ḏ-hšuk l-atar nhur
 * uhiia zakin
 * s_____a