Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- الخلاص
- Transliteration
- al-khalāṣ
- Rejected alternatives
- النجاة, الفوز بالجنة
Salvation
CRITICAL: mainstream Islamic soteriology has no assured salvation - a soul’s fate rests on a deeds-weighing scale (mizan) judged at the end, and the Quran explicitly denies substitutionary bearing of sin (‘no bearer of burdens shall bear another’s burden,’ 6:164). الخلاص must be taught with its full weight: deliverance secured once for all through Christ’s substitutionary death, with present assurance, not a probabilistic outcome pending Judgment Day.