Abomination of saying: "What Allah Wills and so-and-so Wills"

This short chapter guards how we speak about Allah's will alongside the will of people. The objection is to the little word 'and', which in Arabic places two things side by side as equals. To say 'What Allah wills and so-and-so wills' quietly levels the Creator with a creature, as if their wills stood on the same footing.

The remedy is a single word: 'then' (in Arabic, thumma), which signals sequence and subordination rather than partnership. Notice how a matter of grammar is really a matter of tawhid, keeping Allah's will first and supreme and every human will dependent on it and coming only after.