Rahma (Mandaeism)
In Mandaeism, a rahma is a daily devotional prayer that is recited during a specific time of the day or specific day of the week. There is a total of approximately 60 rahma prayers, which together make up the Eniania ḏ-Rahmia, a section of the Qulasta that follows the Asut Malkia prayer.
Translations
's version of the Qulasta, the Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans, has 64 rahma prayers translated into English that are numbered from 106 to 169. In Drower's ordering, the rahma prayers directly follow the Asut Malkia prayer, while the Ṭabahatan prayer comes after the rahma prayers.Part 1 of the Oxford Collection in Mark Lidzbarski's Mandäische Liturgien contains 60 rahma prayers translated into German that correspond to prayers 106–160 and 165–169 in Drower.
In 1999, Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki published a typesetted Mandaic edition of the Qulasta containing all of the rahma prayers.
List of rahma prayers
Below, Oxford refers to Lidzbarski's numbering, while CP refers to Drower's number.Hourly prayers
The first 13 prayers are recited during the three times of the day for prayer, which are dawn, noontime, and evening.- Oxford 1.1 : opening prayer
- Oxford 1.2 : dawn prayer
- Oxford 1.3 : dawn prayer
- Oxford 1.4 : noontime prayer
- Oxford 1.5
- Oxford 1.6
- Oxford 1.7 : opening evening prayer
Rahma prayers recited after incense is offered:
- Oxford 1.8 : dawn prayer, after incense
- Oxford 1.9 : dawn prayer, after incense
- Oxford 1.10 : dawn prayer, after incense
- Oxford 1.11 : dawn prayer, after incense
- Oxford 1.12 : noontime prayer, after incense
- Oxford 1.13 : evening prayer, after incense
Prayers for the days of the week
There are 6 rahma prayers for each day of the week. Each set consists of alternating long and short prayers.;Sunday prayers
- Oxford 1.14 : Manda d-Hayyi and Ruha on Sunday
- Oxford 1.15
- Oxford 1.16 : the voice of the Living Water during the beginning of the universe
- Oxford 1.17 : short prayer praising the Lord of prayers
- Oxford 1.18 : "fruit is set up on the tree"
- Oxford 1.19 : short prayer request to Hayyi
;Tuesday prayers
;Wednesday prayers
- Oxford 1.32
- Oxford 1.33
- Oxford 1.34 : climbing Mount Carmel
- Oxford 1.35 : "between two mountains"
- Oxford 1.36
- Oxford 1.37
;Friday prayers
- Oxford 1.44 : Miriai meeting her mother
- Oxford 1.45
- Oxford 1.46
- Oxford 1.47
- Oxford 1.48
- Oxford 1.49
Saturday evening priest initiation prayers
The 2 prayers for novices in priest initiation ceremonies, recited on Saturday evening :Sunday dawn priest initiation prayers
The 2 prayers for novices in priest initiation ceremonies, recited on Sunday dawn :- CP 163
- CP 164