Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- Xilas
- Transliteration
- khee-LAHS
- Rejected alternatives
- nicat (Persian-influenced, common in eschatological/Judgment-Day framing tied to Imamate intercession), cənnətə girmək (entering paradise)
Salvation
CRITICAL: Xilas is the settled IBT term for deliverance through Christ’s death and resurrection, received now. Nicat is common in Azerbaijani religious speech but is frequently bound up with hope for the Twelfth Imam’s intercession at the end of time; cənnətə girmək reduces salvation to a deferred, uncertain outcome rather than a present reality grounded in Christ’s finished work.