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« God  according to His words: and made binding on them the promise to be mindful of Him. His words: [48:27] …You will assuredly enter the Sacred Mosque in safety, God willing… He was asked, ‘What is meant by making this exception [saying God willing] (istithnāʾ)?’ He said: This is a way of teaching (taʿlīm) and disciplining (taʾdīb) [His] servants, [in order that they should feel] intense neediness (shiddat al-iftiqār) for Him at every moment and in every situation, and by way of emphasis (taʾkīd). If God makes an exception [by saying ‘God willing’] while having full knowledge [of what is to happen], then it is not for one of his servants, who is deficient »