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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, expressing a sarcastic doubt about the likelihood of an unlikely event taking place in the future. This use was seen most famously by American President Joe Biden during a 2020 presidential debate, who said, "When? Inshallah?" while asking his competitor Donald Trump when he'd 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: | ||