Reliance on Allah must be an established mindframe, in all endeavors
18:23"And do not say of anything: Surely I will do it tomorrow, Unless Allah pleases".
The phrase "In sha Allah" means that the action is predicated upon Allah's will. When an action is predicated upon Allah's will, it could either mean that Allah may or may not allow its fulfillement, or that the fulfillement of a certain action is willed by Allah but the WHEN is only known to Him
48:27"Certainly Allah had shown to His Messenger the vision with truth: you shall most certainly enter the Sacred Mosque, if Allah pleases, in security.."
Relying on Allah in all one's endeavours as well as in times of distress and fear, is the true spiritual attitude of every righteous believer 2:177,23:97,67:29 as exemplified with such eminent personalities as Nuh, Ismail, Jacob, Moses, Shuayb or Mary 2:67,11:47,12:67-8,19:18,28:27,37:102 as well as Muhammad who was taught the prayers of sura al-falaq and sura al-nas, sought refuge with God and relied on Him alone despite all outward preparations and precautions, knowing the outcome of things is utterly dependant on God.
The hadith quoted in some books of tafsir saying that the revelation of the sura 18 came much later than the prophet promised his opponents, as a reproof because the prophet did not utter the phrase "if God wills", presents several internal incoherences.
It firstly has unreliable and unknown narrators in its chain. Then it says for instance that once revelation came 15 days later, it contained a rebuke to the prophet. No such reproach exists in sura kahf. Nor are there any traces in any tradition, authentic or else, of the supposed rumors due to the prophet's incapacity to answer the following day as he had promised. Furthermore no link exists between the verse upon which the tafsir and narration are based (18:23-4) and the question asked later on concerning Dhul Qarnayn 18:83. The verse teaching to never plan anything before relying on God 18:23-4 and upon which the narration is based, is a parenthetical statement inserted in the flow of the discourse about the youths of the cave. It is connected to the previous verse which is about refraining to research into things known only to God, so in the same way one should not make plans for the future without acknowledging that certainty in all matters only belongs to God.
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