being in a muslim country and dependent on many muslim workers , godor their word , allahis invoked in my hearing hundreds of times a day , from their names ( myriad versions of allah ) to their greetings and farewells to their fatalism ( which they call faith ) as evidenced by the endlessly implored god willing , when history endlessly indicates that he ( or she or it ) is so rarely willing to fulfill any of our desires or expectations or calls for fundamental fairness and care .