I will tell Allah (God) everything
I will tell Allah (God) everything. Is a sentence which I feel sorta started trending in Arabic social media (maybe its been for long, I only started following Arabic media more since I immigrated). I tended to find it funny whenever I read it on a video.
Mostly because it is usually used with sarcasm, when someone is doing something unbelievably dumb or weird, then someone would comment; I will tell God everything. Which sounds really funny in the context of a dumb video. But I probably liked the sentence more, because it carried a hidden sarcasm towards God, as if he doesnt know.
Which is really what prompted me to put the sentence in Google search, because I was sure that I'd probably find religious stuff coming up, and probably many would be calling it HARAM to say etc. So I was curious about how this sentence trended, because it is not so common in the Arabic language to find idioms or such sayings that would involve god in joke. People frown upon joking about anything merely related to religion not even to god!
The source was in the first link. The sentence spread when a 3 year old syrian kid said it for the first time in 2014, while he was on his deathbed surrounded by blood.
That really ached my heart and the sentence stopped being funny. He said it so innocently without any intention for sarcasm, genuinely thinking that god didn't know all the horrible things that were happening to him. His thought process was probably that god is a good (as he was surely taught) so he could not have known, or else would have stopped it. It is like when a kid threatens to tell their mum about something, with the belief that they will get their right back.
This is incredibly sad. Makes me wonder how helpless he felt in his last moments. And makes me even more opposed to any concept of a god. Because a kid, who has not been tainted yet, who is innocent, who is not biased, naturally assumed that god could not have been all-knowing. Unless he is sadistic, then that's another story.
Mostly because it is usually used with sarcasm, when someone is doing something unbelievably dumb or weird, then someone would comment; I will tell God everything. Which sounds really funny in the context of a dumb video. But I probably liked the sentence more, because it carried a hidden sarcasm towards God, as if he doesnt know.
Which is really what prompted me to put the sentence in Google search, because I was sure that I'd probably find religious stuff coming up, and probably many would be calling it HARAM to say etc. So I was curious about how this sentence trended, because it is not so common in the Arabic language to find idioms or such sayings that would involve god in joke. People frown upon joking about anything merely related to religion not even to god!
The source was in the first link. The sentence spread when a 3 year old syrian kid said it for the first time in 2014, while he was on his deathbed surrounded by blood.
That really ached my heart and the sentence stopped being funny. He said it so innocently without any intention for sarcasm, genuinely thinking that god didn't know all the horrible things that were happening to him. His thought process was probably that god is a good (as he was surely taught) so he could not have known, or else would have stopped it. It is like when a kid threatens to tell their mum about something, with the belief that they will get their right back.
This is incredibly sad. Makes me wonder how helpless he felt in his last moments. And makes me even more opposed to any concept of a god. Because a kid, who has not been tainted yet, who is innocent, who is not biased, naturally assumed that god could not have been all-knowing. Unless he is sadistic, then that's another story.
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