{"id":1043,"date":"2021-10-15T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/chaplaincy\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2021-10-15T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:35:35","slug":"insha-allah-if-god-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/chaplaincy\/2021\/10\/15\/insha-allah-if-god-wills\/","title":{"rendered":"Insha Allah &#8211; If God Wills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The literal meaning of which is &#8216;If God Wills, it will happen&#8217; refers to a phrase that is often used by Muslims when talking about or planning a future event. An example would be &#8220;we plan to go on holiday to Majorca next week, Insha Allah&#8221;. The Qur&#8217;an reminds believers that nothing happens except by God&#8217;s Will, and by saying these words we are acknowledging that there is no guarantee something will happen outside of our control. But some people have used this phrase as a polite way of saying &#8216;no&#8217; to something, with the thought in their own mind that if I don&#8217;t go through with something, it was never meant to be :&lt; and you can always say it was not God&#8217;s Will. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/chaplaincy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/431\/2021\/10\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1044\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However when use of such a phrase becomes part of one&#8217;s culture and practice- it changes the whole meaning of the sacred words. Esentially the lesson for this week is, if you have no intention to follow through with a certain thing then saying Insha Allah would have no effect, but if you truly intend on doing something -indeed add that phrase to that intention, for surely there is much blessing in this. That&#8217;s it today. Keep well and see you soon, Insha Allah \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The literal meaning of which is &#8216;If God Wills, it will happen&#8217; refers to a phrase that is often used by Muslims when talking about or planning a future event. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}