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418. Jàng du wees. (2,7,8,10)<br />
It is never too late to learn/study.<br />
“You are never too old to learn.”<br />
Learning<br />
419. Ku jàngul du tari. (11,12)<br />
If you have not studied, you will not recite (the Koran).<br />
What you have not learnt you do not know well enough to be able to do.<br />
Life<br />
420. Àddina daramba la. (19)<br />
Dab: To reach, Raw: To bypass, Ba: to abandon, to live.<br />
According to Maam Daour Wade this proverb is said to have been made up by the late<br />
Murid General Kalife Seex Abdul Ahad Mbàkke. Only the beginning of the words are<br />
used to form this proverb. Its meaning is that we come to life at some point in the world’s<br />
evolution. We have to struggle to live, and we will die at the end anyway.<br />
421. Àddina gudd nab tank. (19)<br />
Life can lead anywhere.<br />
“Look before you leap.”<br />
One has to think before doing anything because the consequences, good or bad, are<br />
waiting for him or her in the future.<br />
I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the<br />
battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or<br />
favour to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. (Ecclesiastes 9:11<br />
NIV)<br />
422. Àddina, kendandoo la. (15)<br />
Life is like a day spent together.<br />
Life does not last forever.<br />
423. Àddina du kër, xaarukaayu dee la. (18)<br />
The world is not a house; it is merely the waiting room of death.<br />
We will all die and it can come anytime, therefore we should live with that fact in mind.<br />
Show me, O LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how<br />
fleeting is my life. (Psalms 39:4 NIV)<br />
Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all men!<br />
(Psalms 89:47 NIV)<br />
Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He springs up like a<br />
flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. (Job 14:1-2<br />
NIV)<br />
for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust. As for man,<br />
his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over<br />
it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more. (Psalms 103:14-16 NIV)<br />
Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow. (Psalms 144:4 NIV)<br />
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