Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- المسيح
- Transliteration
- al-Masīh
Messiah
CRITICAL - inverse risk pattern from other terms: al-Masih is not an available-but-wrong word, it is the unavoidable and correct word, and it is also ‘Isa al-Masih’s own Quranic title (4:171) - already loaded with a specific, well-defined, competing narrative (honored prophet, virgin-born, but explicitly not divine, not crucified, not resurrected, not an atoning sacrifice). Every occurrence must actively correct this pre-loaded content rather than assume the word itself is neutral.
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