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Manichaean Prayers
According to an-Nadim's Account of Manichaean Ordinance of Prayer

The author of the Fihrist, an-Nadim, speaks of the obligation of the followers of Mani to daily offer "four or seven prayers (salawat)". After cleansing themselves, the believer stands facing "the greater light" (sun, or moon at night) and throws him or herself 12 times to the ground, rising to ones feet after each prostration (sajdah). He goes on to give 6 of the 12 prayers said during these prostrations. In this article we will attempt to reconstruct these missing 6 prayers.

Blessed be our guide the Parclete, the Apostle of Light, blessed be his guardian angels and praised be his shing hosts. Here is an account in the Fihrist of an-Nadim that records the first six of the twelve prayers said in ancient prayer times of the Manichaeans:

1st PROSTRATION

Blessed be our guide the Parclete, the Apostle of Light, blessed be his guardian angels and praised be his shing hosts. - An-Nadim, page 790 2nd PROSTRATION Praise be to thee, oh, thou shining one, Mani our guide, source of light and branch of the living, the great tree all of which gives healing. - An-Nadim, page 790 3rd PROSTRATION I bow down and render praise with a pure heart and a trueful tongue to the great deity, father of the lights and their substance; praised and blessed art thou, and thy greatness in its entirity, as well as to those blessed ones who know thee and whom thou hast called upon. Let the praised among thy hosts glorify thee, thy jsutice, thy word, thy greatness, and thy favor, for verily thou art a deity who is altogether Truth, Life, and Righteousness. - An-Nadim, page 790 4th PROSTRATION I render praise and bow down to all of the deities and to all of the light shining angels and to all of the lights and all of the hosts which have sprung from the Great Deity. - An-Nadim, page 790 5th PROSTRATION I bow down and give praise to the great hosts and to the shining deities, who by their wisdom have pierced and driven out the darkness, subduing it. - An-Nadim, page 790 6th PROSTRATION I bow down and offer praise to the Father of Greatness, the mighty and shining, who has come from those who have knowledge. - An-Nadim, page 790 7th PROSTRATION [not recorded by an-Nadim] 8th PROSTRATION [not recorded by an-Nadim] 9th PROSTRATION [not recorded by an-Nadim] 10th PROSTRATION [not recorded by an-Nadim] 11th PROSTRATION [not recorded by an-Nadim] 12th PROSTRATION [not recorded by an-Nadim]