ما شاء الله

See also: ماشاءالله

Arabic

Arabic phrasebook

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maː ʃaː.ʔa‿ɫ.ɫaːh/, /maː ʃaː.ʔa‿ɫ.ɫaː.hu/

Phrase

مَا شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ • (mā šāʔa llāhu)

1. mashallah:
   1. Expressing the speaker's gratitude for a blessing or their recognition of divine intervention in its occurrence. God willed it.
      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:39:

        وَلَوْلَا إِذْ دَخَلْتَ جَنَّتَكَ قُلْتَ مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّهُ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِٱللَّهِ إِنْ تَرَنِ أَنَا أَقَلَّ مِنْكَ مَالًا وَوَلَدًا

        And why did you, when you entered your garden, not say, 'What Allah willed [has occurred]; there is no power except in Allah '? Although you see me less than you in wealth and children

   2. Expressing the speaker's wish for a fortune to be maintained, especially against the evil eye; used in congratulation.

Related terms

• إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ (ʔin šāʔa llāhu, “if God wills”)
• بِإذْنِ ٱللّٰهِ (biʔiḏni llāhi, “by the permission of God”)
• اَللّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ (allāhu ʔakbaru, “God is greater”)
• سُبْحَانَ ٱللّٰهِ (subḥāna llāhi, “glory be to God”)
• اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ (al-ḥamdu lillāhi, “all praise is for God”)
• أَسْتَغْفِرُ ٱللّٰهِ (ʔastaḡfiru llāhi, “I seek forgiveness from God”)
• آيَةُ ٱللّٰه (ʔāyatu llāh, “ayatollah, sign of God”)
• بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ (bi-smi llāhi, “in the name of God”)
  • بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ (bismi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi)
• اَللّٰهُمَّ (allāhumma, “God; O God”)

Descendants

• → Armenian: մաշալլահ (mašallah)
• → Azerbaijani: maşallah
• → Bengali: মাশাআল্লাহ্ (maśaallah)
• → Classical Persian: ماشاءالله (māšā'allah)
  • Persian: ماشاءالله (mâšâ'allah)
  • Tajik: мошоллоҳ (mošolloh)
• → English: mashallah
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: माशाअल्लाह (māśāallāh), माशाल्लाह (māśāllāh)

  Urdu: ماشاءاللہ (māśā'allāh)

• → Kazakh: мәшә Аллаһ (mäşä Allah), машалла (maşalla)
• → Kumyk: машаллагь (maşallah)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: maşelah

• → Ladino: mashalla
• → Malay: masya Allah
• → Ottoman Turkish: ماشاءالله
  • Turkish: maşallah
  • → Macedonian: машала (mašala)
  • → Romanian: mașala
• → Pashto: ماشاء الله (māša' lláh), ماشأالله (māšalláh)
• → Russian: машаалла́х (mašaalláx), машалла́х (mašalláx)
• → Serbo-Croatian: машаллах (mašallah), машалах (mašalah)
• → Uyghur: ماشائاللا (masha'alla)
• → Uzbek: mosholloh