Hayyi Rabbi

Hayyi Rabbi is also referred to in Mandaean scriptures as Hiia Rbia Qadmaiia {{lang|myz|ࡄࡉࡉࡀ ࡓࡁࡉࡀ ࡒࡀࡃࡌࡀࡉࡉࡀ}} ('The First Great Life') or Hiia Rbia Nukraiia {{lang|myz|ࡄࡉࡉࡀ ࡓࡁࡉࡀ ࡍࡅࡊࡓࡀࡉࡉࡀ}} ('The Alien/Transcendental Great Life').{{cite thesis|url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1444088/|last=Aldihisi|first=Sabah|year=2008|title=The story of creation in the Mandaean holy book in the Ginza Rba|type=PhD|publisher=University College London}} Other names used are {{Transl|myz|Mara ḏ-Rabuta}} {{lang|myz|ࡌࡀࡓࡀ ࡖࡓࡀࡁࡅࡕࡀ}} ('Lord of Greatness' or 'The Great Lord'), {{Transl|myz|Mana Rabba}} {{lang|myz|ࡌࡀࡍࡀ ࡓࡁࡀ}} ('The Great Mind'), {{Transl|myz|Malka ḏ-Nhura}} {{lang|myz|ࡌࡀࡋࡊࡀ ࡖࡍࡄࡅࡓࡀ}} ('King of Light') and {{Transl|myz|Hayyi Qadmaiyi}} {{lang|myz|ࡄࡉࡉࡀ ࡒࡀࡃࡌࡀࡉࡉࡀ}} ('The First Life').Drower, Ethel Stefana. The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran. Oxford At The Clarendon Press, 1937.Rudolf, K. (1978). Mandaeism. Leiden: Brill. Kušṭa ('Truth', {{lang|myz|ࡊࡅࡔࡈࡀ}}) is also another name for Hayyi Rabbi, as well as Parṣupa Rba ('Great Immanence, Great Countenance'{{cite book|last=Drower|first=E. S.|author-link=E. S. Drower|date=1960|title=The secret Adam: a study of Nasoraean gnosis|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press}}{{rp|1}}). In the Ginza Rabba (in Right Ginza books 1 and 2.1), the divine countenance of Hayyi Rabbi is referred to as the "Great Countenance of Glory" ({{lang|myz|ࡐࡀࡓࡑࡅࡐࡀ ࡓࡁࡀ ࡖࡏࡒࡀࡓࡀ}} {{transl|myz|Parṣupa Rba ḏ-ʿqara}}, parṣufa in Neo-Mandaic).{{cite book |last=Gelbert |first=Carlos |title=Ginza Rba |year=2011 |publisher=Living Water Books |location=Sydney |isbn=978-0-9580346-3-0}} In the Asut Malkia, a commonly recited Mandaean prayer, another name for Hayyi Rabbi is Aba Rba ḏ-ʿqara ({{lang|myz|ࡀࡁࡀ ࡓࡁࡀ ࡖࡏࡒࡀࡓࡀ}} 'Great Father of Glory').{{cite book |last=Al-Mubaraki |first=Majid Fandi |last2=Mubaraki |first2=Brian |date=2010 |title=Qulasta - 'niania & Qabina / Mandaean Liturgical Prayer Book (Responses & Marriage) |volume=2 |location=Luddenham, New South Wales |publisher=Mandaean Research Centre |isbn=978-1-876888-15-2}} (1999 edition: ISBN 0-9585704-4-X)

According to E. S. Drower, the name Great Mind or Great Mana refers to the "over-soul" or "over-mind", the earliest manifestation of Hayyi, from which the soul of a human might be seen as a spark or temporarily detached part.{{cite book |last=Drower |first=Ethel S. |author-link=E. S. Drower |title=The Haran Gawaita and The Baptism of Hibil-Ziwa: The Mandaic text reproduced together with translation, notes and commentary |place=Vatican City |publisher=Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana |year=1953 |at=p. 35, translator's footnote #1}} In book three of the Right Ginza, Hayyi is said to have "formed Himself in the likeness of the Great Mana, from which He emerged".{{cite book |section=Book Three, 1st Glorification: The Creation |pages=27–57 |title=Ginza Rabba |volume=Right Volume |translator1-last=Al-Saadi |translator1-first=Qais |translator2-last=Al-Saadi |translator2-first=Hamed |edition=2nd |place=Germany |year=2019 |publisher=Drabsha}}

Brikha Nasoraia writes:

{{blockquote|Sabian Mandaeism is clearly a monotheistic religion but it treats the subject in its own unique way. The Sabian Mandaean view of God differs from the Abrahamic religions in an important way in that God is not the creator of this earthly world but the creator of the Light World[s] (Almia ḏ-Nhura). God is the First Cause of the creation of everything. He creates life as the 'First' manifestation. This First Life grows and emerges in various forms, levels and dimensions. God creates the 'Divine Primordial Elements' from which and by which the formation of the worlds and lives in all formed and emanated. God is worshiped alone and praised as the Supreme Force of the universe. He presides over all the worlds and all of creation. Yet the Sabian Mandaeans believe that the creation of the earthly life comes about through the command of God, but it is entrusted to a lesser emanation, also known as the fourth life (Ptahil) with the assistance of Gabriel (Hibil Ziwa) and other Beings... God has no father, no mother, no son, no brother. He is the First and the Last, because He is the Eternal One – the Pure Radiance and the Great Infinite Light. For the Sabian Mandaeans, God/Hiia [Hayyi] is the Creator of the Worlds of Light and the One who oversees every other aspect of creation. Although He is not the literal creator of the earthly world, He, nevertheless, is directly involved in the process of its salvation. When the world was created, it was not perfect as it was not created by the First Perfect Being (Hiia) [Hayyi]. Therefore, God (Hiia) [Hayyi] was moved by His compassion for life to inject Light, Life and Ethereal Water into the world in order for the earthly beings to gain redemption.{{rp|39–41}}}}

{{see also|Bshuma}}

Many Mandaean texts and prayers begin with the opening phrase b-šumaihun ḏ-hiia rabia ({{langx|myz|ࡁࡔࡅࡌࡀࡉࡄࡅࡍ ࡖࡄࡉࡉࡀ ࡓࡁࡉࡀ|link=no}}), "In the name of the Great Life" pronunciation: "Beeshmayhon 'dhayyi rabbi, ({{langx|ar|باسم الحي العظيم|bism al-Ḥayy al-ʿAẓīm}}, similar to the basmala in Islam and the Christian Trinitarian formula).

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• Father of Greatness, {{Transl|syr|Abba d-Rabbuta}} in Manichaeism
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