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The literal English translation of Mashallah is 'God has willed it', [1] the present perfect of God's will accentuating the essential Islamic doctrine of predestination. The literal meaning of Mashallah is "God has willed it", in the sense of "what God has willed has happened"; it is used to say something good has happened, used in the past tense.
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.
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.
In an Islamic context, it expresses the belief that nothing happens unless God wills it, and that his will supersedes all human will; [7] 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 ...
Mashallah Abdullayev (born 1950), Azerbaijani military serviceman Mashallah Amin Sorour (1931–2010), Iranian cyclist Mashallah ibn Athari (c.740–815), Persian astronomer
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Nativities under its Arabic title Kitab al – Mawalid, has been partially translated into English from a Latin translation of the Arabic; On Reception is available in English from the Latin edition by Joachim Heller of Nuremberg in 1549. Other astronomical and astrological writings are quoted by Suter and Steinschneider.
A witness first saw the gun poking through a crack between the apartment door and the frame. There had been a knock and an eerie silence, then an attempt by two men to force the door open.