James 4

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Do not they come from your pleasures that war in your members? ²You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask. ³You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. ⁴You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with Allah? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of Allah. ⁵Or do you think that Al-Kitab says in vain that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously? ⁶But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "Allah opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."[1] ⁷Therefore submit to Allah. Resist Iblis, and he will flee from you. ⁸Draw near to Allah, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

¹¹Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the Taurat and judges its shariah. But if you judge the shariah, you are not a doer of the shariah, but a judge. ¹²There is only one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

¹³Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit." ¹⁴Whereas you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. ¹⁵For you ought to say, "Insha Allah, we will both live, and do this or that." ¹⁶But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.