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Word entry · Arabic
Tawakkul.
/ta-wak-kal/· n. · Arabicreligion
"Trust in God. Reliance on the divine after you've done your part."

The theological companion to inshallah — where inshallah acknowledges that outcomes are God's will, tawakkul is the disposition of trusting that, after effort has been made. The teaching attributed to the Prophet: tie your camel, then put your trust in God. It's not fatalism; it's the peace that follows having done everything you can. You hear it as a conclusion — after laying out a plan, after a difficult diagnosis, after a decision that can't be reversed.