Menene Ash Laraba?

A cikin bisharar Ash Laraba, karantawar Yesu ya ce mana mu tsabtace: “Sanya mai a kanka, ka kuma wanke fuskarka, don kada sauran mutane su ga azuminku” (Matta 6: 17-18-XNUMX). Duk da haka, jim kaɗan bayan jin waɗannan kalmomin, mun layi don karɓar toka a goshi, alama ce da ke alaƙa da azaba da azumi. A bayyane yake al'ada ta Ash Laraba ba ta zuwa daga bishara ba.

Ba da yaushe aka fara hayar Ash Laraba ba. A karni na shida, Gregory Mai Girma ya bayyana lokacin Lent (Quadragesima, ko "kwana arba'in") a matsayin farkon Lahadi da har zuwa Lahadi Lahadi.

Littafi Mai-Tsarki ya kwashe kwanaki 40 na ruwan sama a lokacin ambaliyar, tafiyar shekara 40 na Isra’ila cikin hamada, azumin na kwanaki 40 na Yesu a cikin jeji, da kuma kwanaki 40 na horo bayan tashinsa daga matattu da Yesu ya ba almajiransa kafin ya koma sama. A ƙarshen kowane ɗayan waɗannan nassosi 40, abubuwan da suka haɗa sun canza: an sake sake duniyar duniyar zunubi, bayi ya zama 'yanci, masassaƙi ya fara hidimar Almasihu kuma mabiyan da ke firgita suna shirye su zama masu wa'azin Ruhu. Lent da azuminsa na kwanaki 40 sun ba Ikilisiya damar guda don canji.

Tunda ba a ba da izinin yin azumin ranar Lahadi ba, ainahin 40 na farko ya kunshi kwanaki 36 na azumi. Daga qarshe, sai aka kara shi da hada kwanaki 40 kafin fara hutun Ista, tare da kara kwanakin raka'o'in hudu kafin fara azumi, fara daga ranar Laraba kafin Lent.

A ƙarshe, wancan azumin ya kara haɗe da haɗawa da makonni tara (Septuagesima). Koyaya, rana ta 40 ta azumin - Laraba ce - ta ci gaba da ma'ana, galibi saboda ma'anar rubutun wannan lambar.

An ƙara toka a cikin wannan dokar a ranar Laraba a ƙarni na takwas da na tara don taimakawa a daidaita yanayin sauyin da ke faruwa a lokacin Lent. Muminai sun karbi toka a goshi don tunatar da su asalin asalinsu: "Ku tuna fa, ku turɓaya ne, turɓaya ne za ku koma." Bayan an sa su cikin rigar gashi, an fitar da su daga cocin: "An jefa ku cikin kirjin mahaifiyar mai tsarkaka saboda zunubinku, yayin da aka fitar da Adamu daga Firdausi saboda zunubinsa." Ficewa, ko yaya, ba ƙarshen bane. Don haka, kamar yadda yanzu, sulhu na jiran masu bi ta wurin Almasihu.

A cikin asalin, Ash Laraba an asali daidaituwa ga penance, wanda shi ma a tsakiyar Lent a wancan lokacin. An ba da fahinta dabam a yau: babban burinta shine yanzu, kamar yadda yake a asalin sa, yin baftisma. Tunda yin baftisma a Roma ya faru da farko a Ista, Lent azumi shine farkon yin baftisma, hanyar da waɗanda zasu tuba zasu iya fahimtar yadda suke dogaro ga Allah da kuma yadda ayyukan duniyar nan suke nesanta kansu da lokaci. kaunar Allah.

Ash Laraba na iya taimaka mana mu ci gaba da wannan hanyar ta hanyar tambayarmu mu yi la’akari da muhimman tambayoyi guda biyu: wanene mu ainihi kuma a ina, da taimakon Allah, zamu je ƙarshe.