Translation:Qolasta/Prayer 68


 * LXVIII.
 * Between the hidden and the shining,
 * between the light and the uthras,
 * between the hidden and the shining,
 * they stand there and question the soul.
 * They speak to it:
 * "Say, say, soul, who formed you.
 * Who built you, who formed you,
 * who was the man, your creator?"
 * The soul, the built, well-built soul, replied and spoke.
 * She replied and spoke
 * to the man who asked her.
 * She spoke to him:
 * "My father! One built me, one formed me,
 * one was the man, my creator.
 * One of the sons of salvation graciously took a part.
 * He wrapped me in a wrap of splendor,
 * took and gave me to Adam.
 * Adam in his simplicity
 * was ashamed because he did not know,
 * was ashamed because he did not understand.
 * Adam in his simplicity
 * took and put me in the corporeal trunk.
 * He took and put me in the physical hull of wormwood, bitter herb and...
 * The soul sits there and guards
 * the bodily hostel that is entrusted to it.
 * It sits there and guards it
 * until its measure and number is fulfilled."
 * When her measure and her number were fulfilled,
 * the solver went to her.
 * The loosener went to her and loosened her,
 * it led her away, who had bound her.
 * He who had loosed the soul went ahead of it,
 * he who had bound it came behind it.
 * The soul ran and reached the loosener;
 * The one who had bound it ran, but did not reach it.
 * The soul and the loosener
 * go to the place of life,
 * to the place whose sun does not set,
 * and whose lamps of light do not darken.
 * To that place
 * the souls are called and invited,
 * which have been called by this mass
 * and drawn by this sign.
 * They will see the great place of light
 * and the shining dwelling place.
 * And praised be the life.

Mandaic transcription

 * binia kisia l-ziua
 * u-binia nhura l-ˁutria
 * binia kisia l-ziua
 * qaimia l-nišma mšailia
 * amrilẖ
 * amar amar nišma
 * banak man
 * man bnak u-man banak
 * u-man hua gabra naṣbak
 * malil u-amar nišma
 * nišma bnina u-mbanana
 * malil ḏ-nimarlẖ
 * l-gabra ḏ-šailẖ
 * amarlẖ
 * ab had ban had banan
 * had hua gabra naṣbai
 * had mn bnia šlama
 * mnata b-ṭabuta lgaṭ
 * kanan b-knan ziua
 * u-nsib l-adam ašlman
 * adam b-tmimutẖ
 * bit ḏ-laˁda u-bit ḏ-la-praš
 * adam b-tmimutẖ
 * nsib b-ˁuṣṭun pagria rman
 * nsib rman b-ˁuṣṭun pagria
 * ḏ-gidia u-mraria u-ˁlqia
 * iatib nišma u-naṭar
 * špinza ḏ-pagria ḏ-paqadlẖ
 * iatib u-naṭarlẖ
 * alma ḏ-kilẖ u-minianẖ šlim
 * kḏ šlim kilẖ u-minianẖ
 * asgia šaruia ˁlẖ
 * asgia ˁlẖ šaruia ḏ-širiiẖ
 * u-dibrẖ man ḏ-ˁsrẖ
 * ḏ-širiiẖ l-nišma azil aqamẖ
 * ḏ-ˁsrẖ atia mn abatrẖ
 * rhiṭ nišma l-šaruia miṭiiẖ
 * rhiṭ ḏ-ˁsrẖ l-adaurẖ
 * nišma u-šaruia
 * l-atra ḏ-hiia mizlẖ
 * l-atra ḏ-l-arba šamšiẖ
 * u-šragia ḏ-nhura la-haškin
 * ˁlẖ l-hanatẖ atra
 * qriia u-mzamna nišmata
 * ḏ-ˁtiqria b-haza masiqta
 * u-ˁtiršim b-haza rušuma
 * nihzunẖ l-atra rba ḏ-nhura
 * u-l-daura taqna
 * u-mšabin hiia
 * s_____a