God helps those who help themselves

Kalmar " Allah yana taimakon waɗanda suka taimaki kansu " wata kalma ce da ke jaddada mahimmancin himma da kuma ikon yin aiki da kai . Kalmar ta samo asali ne daga tsohuwar Girka a matsayin " alloli suna taimaka wa waɗanda suka taimaki kansu " kuma wataƙila an fara amfani da ita a matsayin karin magana . An kwatanta ta da labarai biyu na Aesop kuma ana samun irin wannan ra'ayi a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na Girka na dā . Sophocles sun yi amfani da shi a cikin siffar "Babu wani alheri da ke zuwa daga nishaɗi ba tare da dalili ba; Kuma sama ba ta taimaka wa mutanen da ba za su yi aiki ba",  yayin da Euripides ya kwatanta Orestes yana cewa, "Ina tsammanin Fortune yana lura da rayuwarmu, fiye da mu. Amma an faɗi da kyau: wanda ya yi ƙoƙari zai ga allolinsa suna ƙoƙari dominsa daidai."  Sigar Ovid ta wannan kalmar ita ce "Allahntaka tana taimaka wa waɗanda suka yi ƙarfin hali" ( audentes deus ipse iuvat ). 

Ko da yake an saba danganta shi da Benjamin Franklin, kalmomin Turanci na zamani sun bayyana a baya a cikin aikin Algernon Sidney . Sau da yawa ana kuskuren wannan kalmar a matsayin ambaton littafi mai tsarki, kodayake ba a faɗi hakan a cikin Littafi Mai Tsarki ba. Wasu Kiristoci suna ɗaukar wannan magana a matsayin sabanin saƙon Littafi Mai Tsarki na alherin Allah da taimakonsa ga marasa taimako, da kuma sukar sa game da kwadayi da son kai.  An yi magana game da wani nau'in kalmar a cikin Alƙur'ani (13:11).  

 Asali 

 Tsohuwar Girka 
Wannan ra'ayi ya bayyana a cikin wasu bala'o'i da dama na zamanin Girka. Sophocles, a cikin littafinsa Philoctetes (kimanin 409 BC), ya rubuta, "Babu wani alheri da ke zuwa ta wurin nishaɗi ba tare da dalili ba; Kuma aljanna ba ta taimaka wa mutanen da ba za su yi aiki ba." 

Euripides, a cikin littafin Hippolytus Veiled (kafin 428 BC), ya ambaci cewa, "Ka gwada kanka da farko, sannan bayan ka kira Allah; Gama ga ma'aikaci Allah da kansa yana ba da taimako."  A cikin littafinsa na Iphigeneia a cikin Tauris, Orestes ya ce, "Ina tsammanin Fortune yana lura da rayuwarmu, fiye da mu. Amma an faɗi da kyau: wanda ya yi ƙoƙari zai ga allolinsa suna ƙoƙari a gare shi daidai." 

Wani nau'in wannan karin magana "Allah da kansa yana taimakon waɗanda suka yi ƙarfin hali," wanda aka fi fassara shi da "Allahntaka yana taimakon waɗanda suka yi ƙarfin hali" ( audentes deus ipse iuvat ), ya fito ne daga littafin Ovid mai suna Metamorphoses, 10.586. Hippomenes ne suka yi amfani da wannan kalmar lokacin da suke tunanin ko za su shiga tseren ƙafa da Atalanta don aurenta. Duk da haka, idan Hippomenes ta sha kashi, za a kashe shi. Hippomenes ta yanke shawarar ƙalubalantar Atalanta zuwa tseren kuma, tare da taimakon Venus, Hippomenes ta sami damar cin tseren.

Ana samun irin wannan ra'ayi a cikin tatsuniyar Hercules da Wagoner, wadda Babrius ya fara rubutawa a ƙarni na 1 AD. A cikinta, karusa ta faɗa cikin kwazazzabo, ko kuma a cikin sigar da ta biyo baya ta zama laka, amma lokacin da direbanta ya nemi taimako ga Hercules, an gaya masa ya fara aiki da kansa.  An kuma yaba wa Aesop da irin wannan tatsuniya game da wani mutum da ya kira allahiya Athena don taimako lokacin da jirginsa ya lalace kuma aka ba shi shawarar ya fara yin iyo.  An yi zato cewa an ƙirƙiri labaran biyu don kwatanta karin magana da ta riga ta wanzu. 

Marubucin Faransa Jean de La Fontaine shi ma ya daidaita tatsuniyoyin farko a matsayin Le chartier embourbé ( Fables VI.18) kuma ya zana Aidera mai kyau, le ciel t'aidera (Taimaka wa kanka kuma Aljanna za ta taimake ka).  A baya, George Herbert ya haɗa da "Taimaka wa kanka, Allah zai taimake ka" a cikin tarin karin maganarsa, Jacula Prudentum (1651).  Amma masanin siyasa na Ingila Algernon Sidney ne ya samo asali daga kalmomin da aka saba amfani da su a yanzu, "Allah yana taimakon waɗanda suka taimaki kansu",  a bayyane yake cewa ainihin fassarar kalmar ita ce ta farko. Daga baya Benjamin Franklin ya yi amfani da ita a cikin littafinsa na Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) kuma an ambato ta sosai. 

 Littafi Mai Tsarki na Ibrananci 
Nassoshi da dama a cikin Tanakh suna nuna fifikon albarka ga waɗanda ke aiki tuƙuru don Allah, ciki har da:

  – The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to.
   – A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.
  – He who works his land will have abundant food, but he who chases fantasies lacks judgment.
  – Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.
  – The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
  – The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory rests with the Lord.

A cikin Ta'anit, Mishnah ya ce:

 Sabon Alkawari 
Duk da cewa kalmar ba ta bayyana a fili a cikin nassosin Kirista ba, ana amfani da waɗannan nassoshi don nuna ɗabi'ar mutum, da kuma ɗaukar mataki:

  – Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.
  – If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
  – For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Dogara ga Allah yana da ƙarfi sosai ban da aiki tuƙuru.

Akwai kuma alaƙa da Misalin Bawa Mai Aminci, da kuma Misalin Budurwa Goma, wanda ke da irin wannan jigon ƙarshen duniya : ku kasance cikin shiri don ranar hisabi.

Akasin haka da ikon yin aiki, a wasu lokutan Littafi Mai Tsarki ya jaddada dogaro ga Allah da misalai na Yesu yana hidima ko warkar da waɗanda ba su da ikon taimaka wa kansu, yana nuna cewa dogaro da kai da dogaro ga Allah suna da alaƙa (Duba Markus 6:34; Markus 1:30-31; da Markus 10:46-52.)

 Rubuce-rubucen Musulunci 
Ana iya samun nassi mai irin wannan ra'ayi a cikin Alqur'ani:

Yana da ma'ana daban domin yana nufin cewa taimako a cikin kai abu ne da ake buƙata don neman taimakon Allah. Wani karin magana na Larabawa da aka ruwaito game da annabin Musulunci Muhammad mai ma'ana iri ɗaya shine " Ka dogara ga Allah amma ka ɗaure raƙuminka" . A cewar Tirmidhi, wata rana Muhammadu ya lura da wani Bakiyare yana barin raƙuminsa ba tare da ɗaure shi ba. Ya tambayi Bakiyare, "Me zai hana ka ɗaure raƙuminka?" Bakiyare ya amsa, "Na dogara ga Allah." Da haka, Muhammadu ya ce, "Ka ɗaure raƙuminka ka dogara ga Allah." 

 Karin maganar kasar Sin 
Kalmar Sinanci天道酬勤( pinyin : tiān dào choú qín ) ita ma tana bayyana ma'ana iri ɗaya, cewa "Sama tana ba da lada ga masu himma".

 Sauran amfani na tarihi 
Ƙungiyar Faransa mai suna Aidera (Taimaka wa kanka kuma Aljanna za ta taimake ka) ta taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen kawo juyin juya halin Yuli na 1830 a Faransa. 

An yaba wa ƙungiyar Kanada mai suna Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera, wadda Louis-Victor Sicotte ya kafa, wajen gabatar da bikin Ranar Saint-Jean-Baptiste ga 'yan ƙasar Faransa.

Aidera da Dieu t'aidera (Taimaka wa kanka, Allah zai taimake ka) ita ce taken da ke kan jirgin ruwan shahararriyar rundunar sojojin ruwa ta Amurka CSS <i id="mw5w">Alabama</i> da aka gina a Burtaniya, wacce Raphael Semmes ke jagoranta a lokacin Yaƙin Basasa na Amurka .

 Ra'ayoyi da jayayya na zamani 
Imani da cewa wannan kalma ce da ta bayyana a cikin Littafi Mai Tsarki, ko ma ɗaya ce daga cikin Dokoki Goma, ya zama ruwan dare a Amurka.  Wani mai nazarin al'umma Kirista kuma mai zaɓe George Barna ya yi nazari kan imanin Amurkawa game da wannan kalma da Littafi Mai Tsarki. Ga maganar "Littafi Mai Tsarki yana koyar da cewa Allah yana taimakon waɗanda suka taimaki kansu", a cikin jerin zaɓen jin ra'ayi,  53% na Amurkawa sun yarda sosai, 22% sun yarda kaɗan, 7% sun ƙi amincewa kaɗan, 14% sun ƙi amincewa sosai, kuma 5% sun ce ba su sani ba. Wani bincike da aka gudanar a ƙarshen shekarun 1990 ya nuna cewa yawancin (81%) sun yi imanin cewa Littafi Mai Tsarki ne ya koyar da manufar,  wani kuma ya ce 82%,  tare da Kiristoci " masu sake haifuwa " ƙasa da (68%) da za su yarda fiye da Kiristocin da ba "masu sake haifuwa" ba (81%).  Duk da cewa ba a bayyana a cikin Littafi Mai Tsarki ba, kalmar ta mamaye wani bincike da aka fi sani da ayoyin Littafi Mai Tsarki.   Kashi biyar cikin ɗari na matasan Amurka sun ce sun yi imani cewa shine babban saƙon Littafi Mai Tsarki. 

Barna yana ganin wannan a matsayin shaida na ƙara rashin sanin Littafi Mai Tsarki na Amurkawa kuma yana ganin cewa yana nuna canji zuwa ga dabi'u da suka saɓa wa koyarwar Alheri a cikin Kiristanci kuma "yana nuna dogaro da kai na ruhaniya wanda bai dace da Kiristanci ba".  Ministan Kirista Erwin Lutzer ya yi jayayya cewa akwai wasu goyon baya ga wannan magana a cikin Littafi Mai Tsarki ( ,  ); duk da haka, sau da yawa Allah yana taimakon waɗanda ba za su iya taimakon kansu ba, wanda shine abin da alheri yake nufi (misalin Bafarisiye da Mai karɓar haraji, ,  ).  Ana sukar wannan furucin a matsayin wanda ke goyon bayan samfurin ceto na Semi-Pelagian, wanda yawancin Kiristoci suka yi Allah wadai da shi a matsayin bidi'a .  

 Duba kuma 

 Ka dogara ga Allah ka kuma kiyaye foda ɗinka ya bushe, irin wannan gargaɗin daga Oliver Cromwell ga sojojinsa
 Yabo ga Ubangiji da kuma wuce gona da iri kan harsashi, irin wannan gargaɗin a Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu
 Misalin mutumin da ya nutse, labarin zamani da ake yawan faɗawa da wannan a matsayin ɗabi'a
 Protestant work ethic - Ra'ayin zamantakewa-tauhidi
 Prosperity theology - Imani na Kirista bisa ga dukiya ta duniya

 Manazarta 

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