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{{Quran|18|23-24}}</ref> The phrase is employed to express the unknowable nature of the future, due to its being in God's rather than human hands. The phrase has also developed a connotation of positive expectation and is most frequently used to express hope rather than simple uncertainty about a certain event taking place in the future (the phrase is today rarely if ever employed to describe an undesirable future event). | {{Quran|18|23-24}}</ref> The phrase is employed to express the unknowable nature of the future, due to its being in God's rather than human hands. The phrase has also developed a connotation of positive expectation and is most frequently used to express hope rather than simple uncertainty about a certain event taking place in the future (the phrase is today rarely if ever employed to describe an undesirable future event). | ||
The word has also, with time, taken on ironical connotations, | The word has also, with time, taken on ironical connotations, and is sometime used to express sarcastic doubt about the likelihood of an unlikely event in the future. This use was seen most famously when American President Joe Biden during a 2020 presidential debate said, "When? Inshallah?", while asking his competitor Donald Trump when he would be releasing his tax records.<ref>{{Citation|The Most Tantalizing One-Word Mystery of the Presidential Debate|author=Aymaan Ismail|publisher=Slate|publication-date=September 30, 2020|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430001307/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/joe-biden-inshallah-debate-confirmed.html|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/joe-biden-inshallah-debate-confirmed.html}}</ref> | ||
==The phrase in Arabic== | ==The phrase in Arabic== | ||
With [[Arabic_letters_and_diacritics#The_Arabic_Diacritics|diacritics]] it is written as: | With [[Arabic_letters_and_diacritics#The_Arabic_Diacritics|diacritics]] it is written as: | ||