Question: Is it permissible for a person, if he forgot to say "Insha Allaah" to say it after a long time has elapsed!
Answer: Praise be to Allaah. Allaah says:
"And remember your Lord when you forget" (Q18[al- Kahf1:24)
There are two well-known scholarly views concerning this aayah. One of which is that this aayah is connected to that which comes before it, and it means that if you say, "Tomorrow I will do such and such" but you forget to say "insha AIlaah", then after that you remember, you should say "insha AIlah". In other words, remember your Lord, connecting everything with His will concerning what you want to do tomorrow, when you remember after having forgotten. This is the apparent meaning, because it is what is indicated by the preceding aayah:
"And never say of anything, 'I shall do such and such thing tomorrow''' (Q18[al-Kahf]:23)
This is the view of the majority, and among those who expressed this view were lbn 'Abbaas, al-Hasan al-Basri, Abu'l-'Aaliyah and others.
This article was culled from the publications of Deen Communication Limited