Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- الآب
- Transliteration
- al-Āb
Father
CRITICAL: paired risk with ‘Son of God’ - Islamic tanzih theology treats any begetting language applied to Allah as a form of anthropomorphism verging on shirk. There is no safe substitute for the relationship category itself; the note applies to the Father/Son pairing as a whole, not to word choice.