검색어: mabua (스와힐리어 - 영어)

mfano wake ni kama mvua ambayo huwafurahisha wakulima mimea yake, kisha hunyauka ukayaona yamepiga manjano kisha yakawa mabua.
here is a similitude: how rain and the growth which it brings forth, delight (the hearts of) the tillers; soon it withers; thou wilt see it grow yellow; then it becomes dry and crumbles away.

jueni ya kwamba maisha ya dunia ni mchezo, na pumbao, na pambo, na kujifakhirisha baina yenu na kushindana kwa wingi wa mali na watoto. mfano wake ni kama mvua ambayo huwafurahisha wakulima mimea yake, kisha hunyauka ukayaona yamepiga manjano kisha yakawa mabua.
know that the life of the world is but a play and a pastime, and an adornment and a self-glorification among you and vying in respect of riches and children; as the likeness of vegetation after rains whereof the growth pleaseth the husbandmen, then it withereth and thou seest it becoming yellow, then it becometh chaff.