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I've never been Muslim or spoken Arabic, but I've adopted inshallah. It means hopefully or with any luck
It means "if Allah wills it", so similar to "God willing".
I cant ever get Michael Scott desecrating that word to mean if his foot ever recovers from its George Foreman Grill degree burns out of my mind whenever I hear godwilling used
The English equivalent would be "God willing" and in Dutch, a lovely archaic phrase: "Zo de Heere wil en wij leven"
What's the literal translation there?
Turns out it's from an old translation of James 4:15, here formulated as: "[If] so the Lord wills and we live"