Ba a shan zuma sai an sha harbi.

Meaning
Success comes after tears.


Usage or Explaination
This is all about telling people that nothing comes easy. If you want to achieve anything, you have to work hard.

Contributed by: Jibril Shu'aibu Adamu

wanda ya raina tsayuwar wata to ya hau ya gyara

Meaning

If you always oppose on peoples attitude or progress, then why not correct it.

Usage or Explaination

It simply means that if a person always opposed on things he is not even capable of then let him do it if he can.

Contributed by: Muhammad Abdullahi

Idan dei a chini ba a seyer ba, kaza ta fi doki.

Meaning
If it is a matter of eating and not of selling, then the hen is better than a horse.

Usage or Explaination

Everything has its own peculiar uses.

Babu nesa ga Allah

Meaning

There is no such thing as distance where God is concerned.

Contributed by:
Uwe Seibert

A buggi karfe da saura'n zafi, in ya fuche sai a wahalla

Meaning

Strike while the iron is hot, you will suffer if you allow it to get cold

Usage or Explaination

Do not lose an opportunity when it is ripe. Taking right decisions at the right time is crucial else you lose the chance which you may not regain.

In rana ta fito tafin hannu ba ya kare ta.

Meaning

If the sun rises, the palm cannot block its rays.

Usage or Explaination

When problems arise the only solution is to face them because it cant be stopped.

Contributed by

Mubarak Jibril.

Ba na fassa randa'n daki ba, na waje ba ta shigga ba.

Meaning

I won't break the randa of the house until the one outside (new one) has been brought in.

Usage or Explaination

Don't be off with the old love until you are on with the new.

This might very well be said to a guide, who asks if he may go when the village to which he is guiding you is reached : meaning, "I can't let you go until I get another guide, for otherwise I may be left without any one at all,"

Randa is a big water jar about 2 ft. high, which always stands in the " gidda " : it is too big to be conveniently carried, and if moved when full would probably break.