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The root of شَاءَ is شيا. | The root of شَاءَ is شيا. | ||
=== Common errors === | ===Common errors=== | ||
A common misspelling places ''in'' and ''sha'' together, so one gets ''insha''. انشاء الله ("insha' Allah") means "we created/invented Allah" (insha is from a different root نشا).<ref>Insha is used in the Qur'an. For example in 23:78: | A common misspelling places ''in'' and ''sha'' together, so one gets ''insha''. انشاء الله ("insha' Allah") means "we created/invented Allah" (insha is from a different root نشا).<ref>Insha is used in the Qur'an. For example in 23:78: | ||
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18:24 Except [when adding], "If Allah wills." (أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ) And remember your Lord when you forget [it] and say, "Perhaps my Lord will guide me to what is nearer than this to right conduct."}} | 18:24 Except [when adding], "If Allah wills." (أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ) And remember your Lord when you forget [it] and say, "Perhaps my Lord will guide me to what is nearer than this to right conduct."}} | ||
The third of the responses was a general and, at the time, common formulation of the [[Alexander Romance]]. Critics argue | The third of the responses was a general and, at the time, common formulation of the [[Alexander Romance]]. | ||
=== Criticism and historical evaluation === | |||
Critics argue that the 15 days between the questions being posed and answered were employed by Muhammad to prepare his response, which was in any case extremely limited in content and not indicative in anyway of divine inspiration. | |||
Historians, by contrast, consider the entire interaction to have been fabricated for the reason that it would have been senseless on the part of the Meccans and Rabbis to ask questions only a prophet could answer to test Muhammad's prophethood if those posing the questions (not being prophets themselves) would have been unable to verify the correctness of the responses. Historians also argue that this story appears to be a variation on a very similarly themed (and equally implausible) tale from Muhammad's life were a man by the name of Abdullah bin Salman interviews Muhammad with three other questions intended to verify Muhammad's prophethood (see this section in [[Convenient Revelations]]). | |||
==In Islamic scripture== | ==In Islamic scripture== | ||