"Inshallah"

This is my favourite word regarding life/spirituality/humility.

I wonder, what is the equivalent in Sanskrit, I am very sure there must be one in the Vedas/Upanishads.

I really like it, it is so full of humility, it reminds me of 'offering the phal of karma to God'!



I remember the shlokam from Bhagavad Gita:



Karmanye Vadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachana,

Ma Karma Phala Hetur Bhurmatey Sangostva Akarmani



"You have a right to perform your prescribed action,but you are not entitled to the fruits of your action.

Never consider yourself the cause of the results your activities,and never be associated to not doing your duty."



The first line is about humility. Lazy/ignorant people stay happy with the first line and adopt a fatalistic view of life. The first concept is incomplete without the second concept that follows in the second line, "Never be associated to not doing your duty".

It is in this spirit that I love the word "Inshallah".



Inshallah, I will find it's Sanskrit counterpart ;-)



My thoughts have diverted into another sphere, something I remember reading on wikipedia, Dara Shikoh speculated on the Kitaab al Maknun being none other than the Upanishads, he translated the Upanishads into Urdu as "Sirr-E-Akbar", (The Greatest Mystery) and was dethroned & beheaded by the bigot Aurangzeb. Wonder why the insha of allah was there on that event...

I guess all wrong things happen in Kali kaalam, that too Inshallah... Since God says in Bhagavad Gita that not a blade of grass can move without His will..