Yaƙub 4
1 Me yake jawo faɗace-faɗace da gardandami a tsakaninku? Ashe, ba sha’awace-sha’awacenku da suke yaƙi a zukatanku ba ne?
Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies?
2 Kukan nemi abu ku rasa, sai ku yi kisa da ƙyashi. In kuka rasa abin da kuke nema sai ku shiga yin gardama da faɗa. Kukan rasa ne, domin ba ku roƙi Allah ba.
Ye desire, and ye have not: ye are envious, and jealous, and cannot obtain: ye fight and contend; but ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Sa’ad da kuka roƙa, ba kwa samu, don kun roƙa da mugun nufi, don ku kashe abin da kuka samu a kan sha’awace-sha’awacenku.
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask wickedly; that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
4 Ku mazinata, ba ku san cewa abokantaka da duniya gāba ce da Allah ba? Duk wanda ya zaɓa yă zama abokin duniya ya zama abokin gāban Allah ke nan.
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
5 Ko kuna tsammani a banza ne Nassi ya ce ruhun da ya sa yă zauna a cikinmu yana kishi sosai?
Do ye think the scripture speaks in vain? or does the Spirit that dwelleth in us, excite to envy?
6 Amma yakan ba mu alheri a yalwace. Shi ya sa Nassi ya ce, “Allah yana gāba da masu girman kai amma yakan ba da alheri ga masu tawali’u.”
No, He giveth more grace: wherefore it is said, God resisteth the proud, but sheweth favor to the humble.
7 Saboda haka, ku miƙa kanku ga Allah. Ku yi tsayayya da Iblis, zai kuwa guje ku.
Submit yourselves therefore to God: resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Ku matso kusa da Allah shi kuwa zai matso kusa da ku. Ku wanke hannuwanku, ku masu zunubi, ku kuma tsarkake zukatanku, ku masu zuciya biyu.
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you: cleanse your hands, O sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Ku yi baƙin ciki, ku yi makoki ku kuma yi kuka. Ku mai da dariyarku ta zama makoki, farin cikinku kuma yă zama ɓacin zuciya.
Be grieved, and mourn, and weep: let your mirth be turned into mourning, and your joy to sadness.
10 Ku ƙasƙantar da kanku a gaban Ubangiji, zai kuwa ɗaukaka ku.
Be humbled before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11 ’Yan’uwa, kada ku ɓata wa juna suna. Duk wanda ya zargi ɗan’uwansa ko ya ɗora masa laifi, yana gāba da doka ne yana kuma yin mata shari’a ke nan. In kuwa ka ɗora wa shari’a laifi, kai ba mai binta ba ne, mai ɗora mata laifi ne.
Speak not against one another, my brethren; he that speaketh against his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 Akwai Mai ba da doka da kuma Alƙali guda ɗaya tak, shi ne yake da ikon ceto da kuma hallakarwa. Amma kai, wane ne da za ka hukunta maƙwabcinka?
Now there is but one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou then that judgest another?
13 Yanzu fa sai ku saurara, ku da kuke cewa, “Yau ko gobe za mu je wannan ko wancan birni, mu yi shekara a can, mu yi kasuwanci, mu ci riba.”
Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go to such a city, and spend a year there, and trade and get gain;
14 Alhali kuwa ba ku ma san abin da zai faru gobe ba. Wane iri ne ranku? Ku kamar hazo ne da yake bayyana na ɗan lokaci sa’an nan yă ɓace.
(though ye know not what will be on the morrow; for what is your life? a vapor, which appeareth for a little while, and then vanisheth away: ) whereas ye ought to say,
15 A maimakon haka, ya kamata ku ce, “In Ubangiji ya yarda, muna kuma a raye, za mu yi wannan ko wancan.”
If the Lord will, and we should live, and do this or that:
16 Ga shi, kuna fariya da taƙama. Duk irin wannan taƙama mugun abu ne.
but ye glory in your presumption: all such glorying is wicked.
17 Saboda haka, duk wanda ya san abu mai kyan da ya kamata yă yi, bai kuwa yi ba, ya yi zunubi ke nan.
To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.
