To those who speak Arabic
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i dont speak arabic but google does
heres what i quickly found, its interesting because i've only ever heard this phrase when somone dies so i was told it means 'from him we come and to him we return' PAH! not even close! every day i find a new thing i once believed isnt actually true hypno
read this link
http//wahiduddin.net/words/tahwil.htm
heres a summary if its too much hassle
The phrase may be translated word-by-word asl? = no, not, none, neither
hawla = change, alteration, transformation, movement, motion
wa = and
l? = no, not, none, neither
quwwata = strength, power, potency, force, might, vigor
ill? = but, except, if not
bi = with, to, for, in, through, by means of
All?h = Arabic name for the Supreme Being -
Peace Umzy
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un is probably the phrase you've heard when someone dies.
Here's a wiki article on the phrase
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inna_lillahi_wa_inna_ilaihi_raji'unHere's an excerpt from the article
Inna Inna is really inna-na. The first part is ?verily?, the last part is ?we??but Arabic tends to simplify, so it is written as inna (with only 1 noon and shadda for stress). It means ?Indeed, we? or ?verily, we?.
Li-llahi Li is a harfu jarr (preposition) meaning ?to? or ?is for.? It is used as a kind of possessive case. ?a laka akhun? (the la is really the same as li) means ?is for you a brother?? or ?do you have a brother?? So here, ?lillahi? means ?belong to God? or ?are for God?. (It?s also because of the 'li' that 'allah' takes kasra.)
Wa Wa means ?and?.
Inna Same as above.
Ilay-hi This is two parts, it means ?toward him?. Ilay is actually a form of ila (a preposition), which means ?to?. A grammatically similar phrase is ?thahabtu ila masjidin? ? "I went to a masjid". ?Hi? is actually ?hu?, the third-person possessive pronoun (?his?). (It takes kasra because of "ila".) So the overall translation is ?toward him?.
Raji3oon This is a form of raja3a, "return" (the 3 represents the letter 'ain, which is voiced with a tightened throat). Raji3 is a noun/adjective form, meaning 'a person who is returning'. The oon at the end makes it plural (so that it refers to 3 or more people). Raji3oon basically means 'returners', or better 'returning ones'.Taken together, the phrase can be translated as ?We indeed belong to God, and we indeed toward him are returning.?
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Different phrase alalmakt
la hawla wala quwata ila bil lah - there is no strength or power greater than God. - people say it sometimes when events happen they have no control of
inna lilah wa inna ilahi raji`oon - to God we belong to God we return - people say it when they hear of death
though hawla can refer to different things
hope it helps
peace
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I know it's a different phrase. I was just clarifying that the phrase that Umzy was thinking of was inna lilah wa inna ilahi raji'oon.
oh ok, my bad. i didn't read the post.
Peace
I was told that it's a magic phrase that you say when someone does something bad to you so that something bad happens to them.
that's odd, it's just a statement. a dhikr not a magic phrase
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Peace
I was told that it's a magic phrase that you say when someone does something bad to you so that something bad happens to them.
That "magic" phrase I think you are talking about is "hasbuna Allah wa niema Al Wakeel". It does work wonders. Talk about the power of the word; the wonders of the Quran exceeds all magic.