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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة

This shit right here. Example: The Spanish colloquialism “ojalá” (meaning “hopefully”) derives, by way of Old Castilian, (“oxalá”) from “inshallah.” This usage dates back to 1424, and demonstrates Arabic’s lasting influence on Spain — well after the so-called Islamic Golden Age of Al Andalus.

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Also of course hundreds of millions of people say inshallah and are not Arabic speakers but simply people whose languages have been influenced by Arabic in particular through Islam Or people who lived in countries where etc. (like myself)