Romans
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1
Brothers who know the sharia, do you not know that its authority rules over Bani Adam while they remain alive?
أَيُّهَا الْإِخْوَةُ الَّذِينَ يَعْرِفُونَ الشَّرِيعَةَ، أَلَا تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ سُلْطَتَهَا تَسُودُ عَلَى بَنِي آدَمَ مَا دَامُوا أَحْيَاءً؟
2
A married woman is obligated under the sharia to her husband while he remains alive. But if the husband dies, the sharia frees her from the bonds of marriage.
إِنَّ الْمُتَزَوِّجَةَ مُلْزَمَةٌ تَحْتَ الشَّرِيعَةِ بِزَوْجِهَا مَا دَامَ حَيًّا، لَكِنْ إِنْ مَاتَ الزَّوْجُ حَرَّرَتْهَا الشَّرِيعَةُ مِنْ رِبَاطِ الزَّوَاجِ.
3
If she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she is an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the sharia of adultery, and she is allowed to be joined to another man.
وَإِنِ ارْتَبَطَتْ بِرَجُلٍ آخَرَ مَا دَامَ زَوْجُهَا حَيًّا فَهِيَ زَانِيَةٌ، لَكِنْ إِنْ مَاتَ زَوْجُهَا، تَحَرَّرَتْ مِنْ شَرِيعَةِ الزِّنَى وَيَحِلُّ لَهَا أَنْ تَرْتَبِطَ بِرَجُلٍ آخَرَ.
4
So, believing brothers, you also have died with regard to the sharia through the body of Al-Masih, so you can be committed to another person, the one who was resurrected alive from among the dead so that you would produce fruit for Allah.
إِذًا، أَيُّهَا الْإِخْوَةُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ، قَدْ مُتُّمْ أَنْتُمْ أَيْضًا بِصَدَدِ الشَّرِيعَةِ مِنْ خِلَالِ جَسَدِ الْمَسِيحِ، حَتَّى تَرْتَبِطُوا بِالْآخَرِ، أَيْ بِالَّذِي بُعِثَ حَيًّا مِنْ بَيْنِ الْأَمْوَاتِ لِكَيْ نُثْمِرَ ثَمَرًا لِلهِ.
5
When we were people of human nature, our guilt-producing passions were effective in our members through the sharia, to produce fruit for death.
فَعِنْدَمَا كُنَّا مِنْ أَهْلِ الطَّبِيعَةِ الْبَشَرِيَّةِ، سَرَى فِي أَعْضَائِنَا مَفْعُولُ شَهَوَاتِنَا الْآثِمَةِ مِنْ خِلَالِ الشَّرِيعَةِ، لِكَيْ تُثْمِرَ ثَمَرًا لِلْمَوْتِ.
6
But now, we have been made free from the sharia, since we have died with regard to what used to enslave us, so that we can worship Allah by Ruh Allah in our new lives, not by the sharia in our old doctrines.
لَكِنَّنَا الْآنَ قَدْ تَحَرَّرْنَا مِنَ الشَّرِيعَةِ، إِذْ مُتْنَا بِصَدَدِ مَا كَانَ يَسْتَعْبِدُنَا، حَتَّى نَعْبُدَ اللهَ بِرُوحِ اللهِ فِي حَيَاتِنَا الْجَدِيدَةِ لَا بِالشَّرِيعَةِ الَّتِي فِي عَقِيدَتِنَا الْقَدِيمَةِ.
7
So what should we say? Is the sharia sin? May Allah forbid it! But if not for the sharia, I would have not known what sin is. I would not have known lust unless the sharia had said, "Do not lust."
فَمَاذَا نَقُولُ إِذًا؟ هَلِ الشَّرِيعَةُ ذَنْبٌ؟ لَا سَمَحَ اللهُ! لَكِنْ لَوْلَا الشَّرِيعَةُ، مَا كُنْتُ لِأَعْرِفَ الذَّنْبَ، إِذْ مَا كُنْتُ لِأَعْرِفَ الشَّهْوَةَ لَوْ لَمْ تَقُلْ شَرِيعَةُ التَّوْرَاةِ: «لَا تَشْتَهِ.»
9
I was alive in the absence of the sharia, but when it came, sin was resurrected alive.
كُنْتُ حَيًّا فِي غِيَابِ الشَّرِيعَةِ، لَكِنْ بِمَجِيءِ الْأَمْرِ بُعِثَ الذَّنْبُ حَيًّا،
11
For sin took advantage of it, deceived me, and killed me through it.
لِأَنَّ الذَّنْبَ اسْتَغَلَّ الْأَمْرَ فَخَدَعَنِي وَقَتَلَنِي بِهِ،
12
So the revealed sharia is holy, and its commandment is holy, just, and righteous.
فَإِذًا، اَلشَّرِيعَةُ الْمُنْزَلَةُ مُقَدَّسَةٌ وَأَمْرُهَا مُقَدَّسٌ وَعَادِلٌ وَمُسْتَقِيمٌ.
13
Did what is righteous become death to me? May Allah forbid it! Sin used what is righteous to produce fruit for death in me so that it would appear as sin. In this way, the extreme ugliness of sin would be shown through the commandment.
هَلْ أَصْبَحَ الْمُسْتَقِيمُ مَوْتًا لِي؟ لَا سَمَحَ اللهُ! إِنَّمَا الذَّنْبُ، لِكَيْ يَبْدُوَ ذَنْبًا، اِسْتَخْدَمَ مَا هُوَ مُسْتَقِيمٌ لِيُثْمِرَ الْمَوْتَ فِيَّ، وَبِذَلِكَ تَظْهَرُ شِدَّةُ بَشَاعَةِ الذَّنْبِ مِنْ خِلَالِ الْأَمْرِ.
14
We know that the sharia is spiritual, but I have a human nature and have been sold as a slave to sins.
نَعْلَمُ أَنَّ الشَّرِيعَةَ رُوحِيَّةٌ، لَكِنَّنِي ذُو الطَّبِيعَةِ الْبَشَرِيَّةِ مُبَاعٌ كَعَبْدٍ لِلذُّنُوبِ.
15
I do not understand what I do. I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate.
لَا أَفْهَمُ مَا أَفْعَلُ، إِذْ لَا أَقُومُ بِمَا أُرِيدُ، بَلْ أَفْعَلُ مَا أَكْرَهُهُ،
16
But if I do what I do not want, that is my confirmation of the goodness of the sharia.
لَكِنْ إِنْ كُنْتُ أَفْعَلُ مَا لَا أُرِيدُ، فَذَلِكَ تَأْكِيدِي عَلَى جَوْدَةِ الشَّرِيعَةِ،
17
So I am not the one now who does that. Sin living in me is what does it.
فَلَسْتُ أَنَا الَّذِي يَفْعَلُ الْآنَ ذَلِكَ، بَلِ الذَّنْبُ السَّاكِنُ فِيَّ هُوَ الَّذِي يَفْعَلُهُ،
18
I know that no goodness lives in me, that is, in my human nature. The desire to do what is good is present in me, but I cannot do what is good.
فَأَنَا أَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ لَا يَسْكُنُ فِيَّ خَيْرٌ، أَيْ فِي طَبِيعَتِي الْبَشَرِيَّةِ. رَغْبَةُ عَمَلِ الْخَيْرِ مَوْجُودَةٌ فِيَّ، لَكِنَّنِي عَاجِزٌ عَنْ عَمَلِ الْخَيْرِ،
19
I do not do the good I want, but I continue in the exact evil I do not want.
فَلَا أَعْمَلُ الْخَيْرَ الَّذِي أُرِيدُهُ بَلْ أَسْتَمِرُّ فِي الشَّرِّ ذَاتِهِ الَّذِي لَا أُرِيدُهُ.
20
If I do what I do not want, it is not I that do it, but sin living in me is what does it.
وَإِنْ فَعَلْتُ مَا لَا أُرِيدُ، فَلَسْتُ أَنَا الَّذِي يَفْعَلُهُ، بَلِ الذَّنْبُ السَّاكِنُ فِيَّ هُوَ الَّذِي يَفْعَلُهُ،
21
So I have discovered this principle: when I want to do what is good, evil is present by me.
هَكَذَا اكْتَشَفْتُ هَذَا الْمَبْدَأَ: عِنْدَمَا أَرْغَبُ فِي عَمَلِ الْخَيْرِ يَحْضُرُنِي الشَّرُّ.
22
Within me, I rejoice in the sharia.
فَأَنَا أَفْرَحُ فِي دَاخِلِي بِشَرِيعَةِ اللهِ،
23
But I see in the members of my body another principle fighting against the principle that my thinking approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the authority of sin living in my members.
وَلَكِنَّنِي أَرَى فِي أَعْضَاءِ جَسَدِي مَبْدَأً آخَرَ يُحَارِبُ الْمَبْدَأَ الَّذِي يُوَافِقُ عَلَيْهِ تَفْكِيرِي، وَيُخْضِعُنِي أَسِيرًا لِسُلْطَةِ الذَّنْبِ السَّاكِنِ فِي أَعْضَائِي.
24
Woe to me for my misery! Who will free me from my imprisonment in this body of death?
يَا وَيْلِي مِنْ تَعْسِي! مَنْ يَفُكُّ أَسْرِي مِنْ جَسَدِ الْمَوْتِ هَذَا؟
25
I praise and thank Allah through our mawla Isa Al-Masih! So I am a slave to the sharia of Allah according to my thinking, and a slave to the authority of sin according to my human nature.
أَحْمَدُ اللهَ شَاكِرًا بِوَاسِطَةِ مَوْلَانَا عِيسَى الْمَسِيحِ! فَأَنَا عَبْدٌ لِشَرِيعَةِ اللهِ حَسَبَ تَفْكِيرِي، وَعَبْدٌ لِسُلْطَةِ الذَّنْبِ حَسَبَ طَبِيعَتِي الْبَشَرِيَّةِ.