Is this true? "InshaaAllah"

LookingToSee —

Assalaamu 'alaikoum!

friend asked me if this was true. as far as my limited and fading knowledge of arabic goes it isnt. But im looking for someone with a lil bit more knowledge of Arabic to help

I can not be bothered to type up the whole text but its basically saying that we shouldnt write "inshallah" or "inshAllah" but we should write inshaa Allah as inshAllah = create Allah.

Im iffy abt the last bit. definetly AGAINST the "inshallah" HOW DARE YOU NOT CAPITALIZE ALLAH'S NAME. and i type it "inshaAllah" as i say it. there ARE two "a" sound in shaa Allah. and they should be pronounced clearly as this is the way it is written in arabic and is the correct grammar. but i dont believe you have to spell it out especially "inshaa allah" except it does help pronounce it better.

maybe the text is more about pronouncing it right. not sayin inshAllah, but saying inshaa'Allah

?

Bilan — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 - 21:54

i dnt get it....(so ur thinking why did i comment????!)

to let u kwn tht i took the TIME to read ur blog in the hope tht i could be of some use. but no, im useless (sowwy)

You — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 - 22:44

Translitteration is never precise - all are approximations of the arabic phrase and all are appropriate.

Grammar nazis forget that the point of writing it to get a message across, and if that is done, why bother with such small trivialities?

(Or we could argue how to translitterate Usman/Uthmaan/Othman/Ottoman or whether "ben" is a valid replacement for "pen" ... why do arabs always say "ben"? its not that hard... or do they only want their language to be better pronounced?)

MuslimBro — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 - 03:00

There's an alif madd in the word insha and the word Allah has an alif too, so whether its inshaAllah or insha Allah, doesn't matter. As long as you pronounce it properly. Its good to see people debating over Arabic grammar, I like.

LookingToSee — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 - 06:30

but you need to pronounce the hamza at the end of inshaa A. i think that's what the text was abt. people not pronouncing it.

2 posts is hardly a debate..

You — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 - 13:41

[quote=MuslimBro]Its good to see people debating over Arabic grammar, I like.[/quote]

It's not, I dislike.

The important thing is what the person means and what is understood by the listerner/reader.

If there is no issue there, the wiritng down of language is just something that was invented for convenience. and so were words and syntax. it is the message that counts.

MuslimBro — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 - 00:42

[quote=You]It's not, I dislike.[/quote]
I'm not talking about transliteration and what not, but about what i'raab a word should have and why (nahw). Sometimes its possible for a word to have 2/3 different i'raabs.