Iran pilot asks passengers to pray
Muslim or not I think everyone should use the term "god willing". It helps us to remember that there is someone out there more powerful than we are.
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I think prayer is a good thing. While I haven't asked my passengers to pray, I imagine that at special times they do.
God has been around along time. Powered flight has been around 106 years. God has seniority.
God has been around along time. Powered flight has been around 106 years. God has seniority.
The universe Forever, or at least many trillions of years (too many zeros to type here).
Man about 100,000 years
Modern Man 15000 years
Powered flight 106 years
Must have being a bit dull the first few trillion years before modern mankind appeared, fighting, killing, tortureing other modern man in the name of religion.
Personally, if a crew wants to save an aircraft in trouble, best try to save it yourselves.
421dog: your attempt at humor is dissapointing.
My grandmother, my mother and my wife say "God willing" for future events so when I went to GF 'Inshallah' didn't come as a complete surprise although, in my experience, in the UK, chaps at work tended not to use the term.
The bit in a GF position report (by one of our more devout Muslims) which confused me was:
"GF009, Check position A, inshallah (إن شاء الله) (hope that's correct), FL350, Estimate Position B, inshallah, 1124"
Like so many things which I now regret, I never bothered to ask, so, could a Muslim pilot advise me if the first 'inshallah' can also mean 'by the grace of God' or was the guy just being a bit too pious? Should the first position have been 'humdilallah'? (من نعمة الله ) (Haven't done this for decades)
The bit in a GF position report (by one of our more devout Muslims) which confused me was:
"GF009, Check position A, inshallah (إن شاء الله) (hope that's correct), FL350, Estimate Position B, inshallah, 1124"
Like so many things which I now regret, I never bothered to ask, so, could a Muslim pilot advise me if the first 'inshallah' can also mean 'by the grace of God' or was the guy just being a bit too pious? Should the first position have been 'humdilallah'? (من نعمة الله ) (Haven't done this for decades)
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The universe Forever, or at least many trillions of years (too many zeros to type here).
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My experience in Islamic nations, "Inshallah" is a common response to, whne will we get our fuel, flight release, weather report. Not in any way to be disrespectfull but god's willing is often placed over man's ability to function. I respect this spiritually as it is extremely powerfull to provide an answer to fearfull situations, I am surprised of this cabin statement as it is a question of Allah's will to the passengers. I respect it as it is an agknowledgement of a desire for man's ability to live or influence their lives over "Inshallah".
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Assuming that the speed of light that we currently observe has been constant over the eons.
On topic - In my opinion this is simply a cultural misunderstanding, or is that too charitable a way to describe a media attempt to sensationalise something on a slow news day
After all, I still say "God bless you" when someone sneezes!
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God has been around along time. Powered flight has been around 106 years. God has seniority.
People with higher IQs are less likely to believe in God, according to a new study:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ve-in-God.html
Seems about right, besides all the religious stuff is nothing but trouble.
