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Mashallah or Ma Sha Allah or Masha Allah or Ma Shaa Allah (Arabic: مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّٰهُ, romanized: mā shāʾa -llāhᵘ, lit. '' God has willed it' or 'As God has wished'') [ note 1 ] is an Arabic phrase generally used to positively denote something of greatness or beauty and to express a feeling of awe.
The following list consists of concepts that are derived from both Christian and Arab tradition, which are expressed as words and phrases in the Arabic language. These terms are included as transliterations, often accompanied by the original Arabic-alphabet orthography.
Maslaha or maslahah (Arabic: مصلحة, lit. ' public interest ') is a concept in Sharia (Islamic divine law) regarded as a basis of law. [1] It forms a part of extended methodological principles of Islamic jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) and denotes prohibition or permission of something, according to necessity and particular circumstances, on the basis of whether it serves the public ...
In Persian language the phrase is nearly the same, انشاءالله, being pronounced formally as en shâ Allah, or colloquially as ishâllâ. In Polish, Daj Boże and Jak Bóg da are similar expressions to the South Slav versions. They mean "God, give" and "if God will give/allow". In Romanian, Să dea Dumnezeu! or Să dea Domnul! means ...
The 12th-century scholar and astrologer Abraham ibn Ezra translated two of Mashallah's astrological treatises into Hebrew: She'elot and Ḳadrut (Steinschneider, "Hebr. Uebers." pp. 600–603). Eleven modern translations of Mashallah's astrological treatises have been translated out of Latin into English. [6]
Wikipedia uses the most common English form of words; see WP:ENGLISH. The standard English spelling is Mashallah. See above discussion. Also see Google ngrams: shows Mashallah over 3 times more common than Masha'Allah. Note that the phrase is given in Arabic and in translation of Arabic immediately after the English name in the lead of the article.
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Mashallah Abdullayev (born 1950), Azerbaijani military serviceman; Mashallah Amin Sorour (1931–2010), Iranian cyclist; Mashallah ibn Athari (c.740–815), Persian astronomer; Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, Iranian journalist; Mashalla Ahmadov (born 1959), Azerbaijani footballer