Imam Sadiq (as) recommended us not to forget to write ‘ If...
Imam Sadiq (as) recommended us not to forget to write ‘ If Allah pleases ’ even in our writings. One day he told someone to write a letter.
When he (as) observed that the letter was not involved with the phrase: ‘ Allah Willing ’, he said: “How do you hope that this work will be completed?” [^1] Wherever the Prophet of Islam (S) entered a graveyard, he used to say: “If Allah please, we will join you”, while death is sure to happen.[^2] A human being is free and has choice, but he is not absolutely independent. It is not so that all affairs to be given him in a manner that he can perform them without the Will of Allah (s.w.t.).
In other words, human beings are neither in compulsion nor the free will of all affairs has been offered to them, but human’s freedom is conditioned to Allah’s Will.
The verse says: “Save (say): ‘If Allah pleases’…” Then, next to this sentence, the Qur’an says: “…and remember your Lord when you forget…” This statement denotes to this meaning that if you forget to add the holy phrase ‘ If Allah please ’ to the news that you inform of the events related to the future, whenever later you remember it immediately make amends it and recite ‘ If Allah pleases ’, because this action will compensate the past.
Besides that, you should say that you are hopeful that your Lord may show you a way more clear than this.
The verse continues saying: “…and say: ‘It may be that my Lord will guide me to a nearer way to the right than this’.” Finally, Sayyid Murtada, who is the most learned one amongst the scholars of Shi‘ah, on the commentary of this part of the verse which is recited: “…and say: ‘It may be that my Lord will guide me to a nearer way to the right than this” says: that he ought to say it may be that Allah will bestow on The Prophet (S) some miracles and evidences to prove his prophethood that will be stronger and more expressive than the story of the of the Cave.
Hence, Allah, the Exalted, bestowed some evidences and miracles more effective on His Prophet. Allah informed His Messenger (S) of all unseen sciences and details about the lives and deeds of the whole prophets. Those facts were some proofs which were more clear and stronger than the story of the of the Cave.