Olof Njie neh: "yaakar ah takh nit di dem Makka."
Meaning: Muslims going to Mecca to perform hajj is a thing of yaakar (hope) - belief if you like, not because where the pilgrim comes from doesn't have mosques to pray at.
Same yaakar goes for marriage and politics. Men marry the one they believe is The One, hoping that those near perfect qualities they saw in her will not change.
Women on the other hand, knowing that men will always be men, marry, still, hoping that they could change them. Sometimes disappointments occur and the consequences we all know.
And if not for yaakar, how is one able to affirm the competences (knowledge, skills and attitude), not just the qualifications of an untested politician?
So, yaakar is not bad. Only that it becomes baakar (sin) when one fails to learn from the disappointments of an earlier yaakar, like voting for someone who was there and did nothing.
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