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Tommy Carcetti

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5. Arabic for "If God wills it."

Wed Oct 8, 2025, 10:19 AM

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But in a more secular, universal sense, it's basically, "Crossing our fingers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inshallah

In an Islamic context, it expresses the belief that nothing happens unless God wills it, and that his will supersedes all human will; however, more generally the phrase is commonly used by Muslims, Arab Christians and Arabic speakers of other religions to refer to events that one hopes will happen in the future, having the same meaning as the English word "hopefully."

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