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“Save (say): ‘If Allah pleases’, and remember your Lord when you forget, and say: ‘It may be that my Lord will guide me to a nearer way to the right than this’.” Allah (s.w.t.) prohibits His Prophet (S) in this holy verse to say that he does so and so the following day unless he depends that affair to the Will of Allah and he says: ‘ If Allah pleases ’.

Thus, Allah desires to train people and He teaches them that whenever they say something about an affair concerning the future, they ought to say this holy phrase, in order that if the affair had not been done the servant would not have said a falsehood.

The reason of this statement lies in the fact that man’s power is limited and it is not right and logical for him to decisively inform of something when the appearance of some barriers against it is probable, and many a time the information happens falsehood, save that it be followed by the phrase ‘ Allah Willing ’. Saying the holy phrase ‘ Allah Wiling ’, which indicates to the belief in ‘The Power and Will of Allah’, was a phrase used by Allah’s saints for ‘resting upon’ in their conversation.

For instance, this meaning has also been narrated in the Qur’an from the tongue of prophets. In Surah Yusuf, No.12, verse 99, Jacob says to his children: “…Enter safe into Egypt If Allah please”. In the current Surah (Al-Kahf), verse 69, Moses says to Khidr: “…Allah Willing, you shall find me patient…”.

In Surah Al-Qasas, No.28, verse 27, Hadrat Shu‘ayb says to Hadrat Moses: “…If Allah please, you will find me one of the righteous.” In Surah As-Saffat, no.37, verse 102, Ishmael (as) tells his father Abraham (as): “…If Allah please, you will find me of the patient ones.” Of course, the purpose of saying “ Allah Willing ”, or “ If Allah please ”, and “ I take refuge in Allah ” and the like of them are not some things to be uttered unintentionally and barely by tongue, but the purpose of it for a servant is to have such a belief and such a knowledge in mind (heart) and in all dimensions of his life.