Ƙyuya da acedia

Abubuwa biyu dabam-dabam ne suke raba wannan wuri a cikin jerin. Sufayen hamada sun ji tsoron acedia — kalmar Hellenanci ce ta “rashin kula” — wata gajiyar rai mai nauyi da takan sauko wa sufi da tsakar rana. Evagrius, a ƙarshen shekarun 300, ya kira ta “aljanin tsakar rana”, bisa ga fassarar Hellenanci ta Zabura 91:6, wadda Littafi Mai Tsarki na Hausa ya fassara “annobar da take hallakarwa da tsakar rana”: yini yana kama da tsawon awa hamsin, sufin yana ta duban rana, ya ƙi ɗakinsa, yana kuma marmarin kasancewa a ko’ina dabam. Al’adar Slavonik tana kiranta unynie — karayar zuciya, fid da zuciya — ta kuma lissafa ta kusa da baƙin ciki, kamar yadda Cassian ya yi.

A Yamma acedia sannu a hankali ta zama ma’anar ƙyuya kawai, Turanci kuma ya kira ta sloth. A nan Littafi Mai Tsarki yana magana a fili. Karin Magana ya gaya wa rago, “Ku tafi wurin kyashi, ku ragwaye; ku lura da hanyoyinsa” (Karin Magana 6:6), ya kuma kwatanta gonarsa da ƙayayyuwa suka mamaye, katangar duwatsunta duk ta rushe (Karin Magana 24:30–31); a cikin misalin Yesu, maigida ya kira bawan da ya ɓoye talentinsa “mugun bawa, mai ƙyuya” (Mattiyu 25:26). Jerin baya sun sa ƙwazo a matsayin akasinta. Masu ƙyuya na Dante suna gudu ba hutu a bene na huɗu; a cikin jerin zanen zunubai bakwai na Pieter Bruegel, da aka buga a 1558, Ƙyuya tana barci a kan jaki a cikin dodon kodi.