God willing: Im Yirzòeh Hashem-In Sha Allah

Except for three passages in the New Testament, the earliest usage in Jewish literature of the phrase God willing (or: if God wills) dates from the Islamic period. The Hebrew im yirzòeh Hashem reflects the Arabic in sha Allah, but without the underlying Islamic occasionalist denial of natural causality and emphasis on divine omnipotence and decree (al-qadar) propounded by Al-Ghazali and Ash'arite Kalam. The Hebrew term merely reflects belief in divine providence and not occasionalism.