Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- الشركة
- Transliteration
- al-sharikah
- Rejected alternatives
- الزمالة, الجماعة
Fellowship
الشركة shares its ش-ر-ك root with shirk (associating partners with God, Islam’s cardinal sin) - an uncomfortable resonance even though the senses are unrelated. Established NT term regardless; context disambiguates, but avoid pairing it with vocabulary that could accidentally suggest ‘partnership with God’ in the shirk sense.
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