THE �GOD WILLING� CLAUSE

If one includes the proviso �God willing� (InshA AllAh) when taking an oath, the vow must be fulfilled.  SulaimAn (Solomon) had sixty wives.  One day he said, �I will certainly have intercourse with them during the night and everyone will give birth to a male child who will all be horsemen and fight in the cause of Allah.  � But only one of them became pregnant, and she gave birth to a premature child.  �But if he had said InshA� Allah he would have not failed,� observes Muhammad.  In other ahAdIs about the same story, the number of wives increases from sixty to seventy and then to ninety (4066-4070).

author : ram swarup