{"id":31000,"date":"2020-10-24T16:36:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T21:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31000"},"modified":"2020-10-24T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T21:36:18","slug":"word-of-the-day-616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/24\/word-of-the-day-616\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Inshallah<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Inshallah<\/b>\u00a0(<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Arabic language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arabic_language\">Arabic<\/a>:\u00a0<span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\">\u0625\u0650\u0646\u0652 \u0634\u064e\u0627\u0621\u064e \u0671\u0644\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0670\u0647\u064f<\/span>\u200e,\u00a0<i><i lang=\"ar-Latn\" title=\"Arabic-language romanization\">\u02bein \u0161\u0101\u02bea -ll\u0101h<\/i><\/i>), also spelled\u00a0<b>InshAllah<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>In sha Allah<\/b>, is an\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Arabic language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arabic_language\">Arabic language<\/a>\u00a0expression meaning &#8220;if God wills&#8221; or &#8220;God willing&#8221;.\u00a0The term is mentioned in the Quran<sup>[<a title=\"Quran\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quran\">Quran<\/a><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2002.02.0006%3Asura%3D37%3Averse%3D102\" rel=\"nofollow\">37:102<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0and is used to fulfill a\u00a0<a title=\"Quran\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quran\">Quranic<\/a> command of speaking on future events.<sup>[<a title=\"Quran\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quran\">Quran<\/a><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2002.02.0006%3Asura%3D18%3Averse%3D24\" rel=\"nofollow\">18:24<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0The phrase is commonly used by\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Muslim\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muslim\">Muslims<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Arab Christians\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arab_Christians\">Arab Christians<\/a>, and Arabic-speakers of other religions to refer to events that one hopes will happen in the future.\u00a0It expresses the belief that nothing happens unless God wills it and that his will supersedes all human will.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase can take on an ironic context, implying that something will never happen or can be used as a gentle way of declining invitations.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inshallah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/the-psychedelic-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Psychedelic Election<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Andrew Sullivan, <em><strong>The Weekly Dish<\/strong><\/em>, responding to a reader&#8217;s LOC:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>We know that the Tea Party came about largely in reaction to Obama and lost much of its\u00a0<em>raison d&#8217;etat<\/em>\u00a0after Trump\u2019s election. Wokeness could be a similar political phenomenon. For that reason alone, I think it is too early to say that wokeness is winning. If Trump is defeated next month, many who now support wokeness \u2014particularly those outside of academia \u2014 will revert to MLK-style liberalism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Inshallah!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inshallah: Inshallah\u00a0(Arabic:\u00a0\u0625\u0650\u0646\u0652 \u0634\u064e\u0627\u0621\u064e \u0671\u0644\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0670\u0647\u064f\u200e,\u00a0\u02bein \u0161\u0101\u02bea -ll\u0101h), also spelled\u00a0InshAllah\u00a0or\u00a0In sha Allah, is an\u00a0Arabic language\u00a0expression meaning &#8220;if God wills&#8221; or &#8220;God willing&#8221;.\u00a0The term is mentioned in the Quran[Quran37:102]\u00a0and is used to fulfill a\u00a0Quranic command of speaking on future events.[Quran18:24]\u00a0The phrase is commonly used by\u00a0Muslims,\u00a0Arab Christians, and Arabic-speakers of other religions to refer \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/24\/word-of-the-day-616\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31001,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31000\/revisions\/31001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}