Core Glossary
08 — Core Glossary: Revelation (New Terms + Extended-Nuance Baseline Terms)
How to use this glossary
This glossary supplements, and never overrides, the baseline Romans translation_memory.json/bible_term_registry.json. Section A lists every genuinely new term introduced by Revelation, with full risk assessment. Section B lists baseline terms that Revelation reuses exactly as recorded but which carry an additional theological nuance, collision risk, or emphasis specific to this curriculum, requiring supplementary teaching notes without any change to the recorded rendering. Chapter citations point to 07_semantic_analysis.md.
Section A — New Terms Introduced by Revelation
| # | Term (English) | Greek / Transliteration | Category | Risk | Kashmiri Rendering | Alternatives Rejected | Chapters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lamb | ἀρνίον / arnion | Christology | Critical | بَرَّہٕ (Barrah) | — (no viable substitute; must remain fixed as Revelation’s primary Christ-title) | 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22 | Denotes the slain-yet-reigning Christ; must be taught against mainstream Islamic denial of Christ’s atoning death (cf. baseline resurrection note re: Quran 4:157). |
| 2 | Worship (of the Lamb/God) | προσκυνέω / proskyneō | Worship | Critical | سجدہ کرُن (sajda karun) | عبادت کرُن (ʿibādat karun) — used as a supporting synonym in ch. 22 contexts, never a substitute that would soften the prostration sense | 4, 5, 7, 13, 14, 19, 22 | Same Arabic root as Islamic ritual prostration reserved exclusively for Allah (sajdah); its application to the Lamb throughout is a deliberate, central affirmation of Christ’s full deity and must never be softened. |
| 3 | Alpha and Omega | Ἄλφα καὶ τὸ Ὦ / Alpha kai to Ō | Christology/Deity of Christ | Critical | اَلفا تہٕ اومیگا (Alfā tay Ōmēgā), glossed اِبتدا تہٕ اِنتہا | — | 1, 21, 22 | Applied identically to God the Father (1:8) and to Jesus (22:13); a direct claim of Christ’s full, eternal, self-existent deity. |
| 4 | Almighty (Pantokrator) | Παντοκράτωρ / Pantokratōr | God | High | قادرِ مطلق (Qādir-e-Mutlaq) | شکتی-based renderings (rejected per baseline’s existing power_of_god caution) | 1, 4, 11, 15, 16, 19, 21 | Shares vocabulary with one of the traditional 99 divine names in Islamic theology; genuine point of contact, but must be explicitly taught as belonging to Christ (22:13) as much as to the Father. |
| 5 | Witness (general) | μαρτυρία / martyria | Perseverance/Witness | High | گواہی (gawāhī) | — | 1, 6, 11, 12, 19 | Testimony to Jesus; the pattern that becomes costly, even fatal, through the book. |
| 6 | Martyr / one who bears witness unto death | μάρτυς (developed sense) / martys | Perseverance/Witness | Critical | یِسوعُک گواہی خٲطرہ جان دِنہ (descriptive: “one who gives his life for the testimony of Jesus”) | شہید (shahīd) — rejected as primary term; the regionally and religiously charged sense of “shaheed” (Islamic religious martyrdom and Kashmir’s own politically loaded usage for those killed in armed conflict) must not be allowed to define this concept by default | 2, 6, 11, 12, 17, 20 | The single most Kashmir-specific new risk in this curriculum: biblical martys dies specifically for testimony to Christ’s Lordship, vindicated by resurrection/God’s justice, not through armed struggle, and does not earn merit thereby — contrasts with both mainstream Islamic martyrdom theology and the region’s own charged political usage of “shaheed.” |
| 7 | Overcomer / conqueror | νικῶν / nikōn | Perseverance | High | غالب بننہٕ والہ / فتحمند (ghālib banan wālah / fatahmand) | جہاد سٟتی فتح (victory through jihad-style struggle) — explicitly rejected framing | 2, 3, 12, 21 | Defined by 12:11 as through “the blood of the Lamb and the word of testimony” — trust and faithful witness, not meritorious struggle. |
| 8 | Patient endurance | ὑπομονή / hypomonē | Perseverance | High | صبر (sabr) | — (retained as primary term but requires explicit reframing) | 1, 2, 3, 13, 14 | صبر is a central Islamic virtue-term (patient trust in Allah’s decree); must be taught as confident, hope-filled endurance grounded in Christ’s certain, promised return and victory, not fatalistic acceptance of impersonal qadar. |
| 9 | Tribulation | θλῖψις / thlipsis | Perseverance | Medium | مصیبت (musībat) | — | 2, 6, 7 | Handle with pastoral sensitivity given the region’s own decades-long experience of hardship and conflict. |
| 10 | Bride | νύμφη / nymphē | Church/Bride of Christ | High | عروس (‘arūs) | — | 19, 21, 22 | Genuine point of contact with Rishi Sufi/Lal Ded bridal-mysticism poetic tradition; must be taught as permanent covenant marriage between two distinct persons (Christ and the Church), not mystical merger/absorption (contra both fana-style dissolution and Trika non-dual self-recognition). |
| 11 | Marriage supper of the Lamb | γάμος τοῦ ἀρνίου / gamos tou arniou | Church/Bride of Christ | High | بَرَّٕہ ہنٛز شادی ہنٛز دعوت | — | 19 | Consummation of the Bride motif; see Bride entry above for the collision risk to manage. |
| 12 | Throne (of God and the Lamb) | θρόνος / thronos | Deity of Christ / Sovereignty of God | Critical (when shared by God and the Lamb); Medium (God’s throne alone) | تخت (takht) | — | 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22 | The single shared throne of God and the Lamb (22:1, 3) is among the book’s clearest statements of Christ’s co-equal deity. |
| 13 | Beast (from the sea) | θηρίον / thērion | Symbolic/Apocalyptic; Antichrist | Critical | حیوان (haiwān) | — | 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20 | Close narrative parallel to mainstream Islamic al-Dajjāl tradition; a distinct theological figure with its own logic and timeline, not simply another name for Dajjal — must be taught with care and respect. |
| 14 | False prophet | ψευδοπροφήτης / pseudoprophētēs | Symbolic/Apocalyptic | Critical | کُوٹھ پیغمبر (kūṭh paighambar) | — | 13, 16, 19, 20 | Built on the baseline’s established پیغمبر (true prophet/Muhammad’s honorific); must be explicitly framed as a symbolic apocalyptic figure within John’s vision, never as commentary on any historical religious founder. |
| 15 | Mark of the beast | χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου / charagma tou thēriou | Symbolic/Apocalyptic; Judgment | High | حیوانُک نِشان (haiwānuk nishān) | — | 13 | Direct symbolic counterpart to God’s seal (ch. 7); caution against speculative identification with real-world technology/numbering systems. |
| 16 | 666 / number of the beast | ἑξακόσιοι ἑξήκοντα ἕξ | Symbolic/Apocalyptic Interpretation | Medium-High | چہٕ سؤ چھَ ہ چھَ | — | 13 | Flag strongly for interpretive guidance against folk numerology speculation. |
| 17 | Dragon / ancient serpent / Satan | δράκων / drakōn | Sovereignty of God over History; spiritual conflict | Medium | اژدہا (azhdahā) | — | 12, 13, 16, 20 | Point of contact with shared Quranic Iblis/Shaitan figure; avoid assimilation to wider Indian goddess-versus-demon mythic imagery. |
| 18 | Second death | ὁ θάνατος ὁ δεύτερος / ho thanatos ho deuteros | Judgment of the Wicked | Critical | دویُم موت (dōyum möt) | — | 2, 20, 21 | Final, irreversible exclusion after resurrection/judgment; contrast with Islamic shafā’a-based eventual release from Jahannam, and with Trika’s absence of any final personal-judgment category. |
| 19 | Lake of fire and sulfur | λίμνη … πυρὶ καὶ θείῳ | Judgment of the Wicked | Critical | پزہٕ تہٕ گندھکہٕ سٟتی بلنہٕ والِس جهیلس منز (descriptive) | — | 19, 20, 21 | See Second Death entry; fixed apocalyptic image for final judgment. |
| 20 | Book of Life | βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς / biblion tēs zōēs | Judgment / Salvation | Critical | زندگیُک کِتاب (zindagī’uk kitāb) | — | 3, 13, 17, 20, 21, 22 | Distinguish sharply from Islamic al-mīzān (deeds-weighing scales) and Lawḥ al-Mahfūẓ (Preserved Tablet); inclusion is grace-based (belonging to the Lamb), not a deeds-balance outcome. |
| 21 | New heaven and new earth | οὐρανὸν καινὸν καὶ γῆν καινήν | New Heaven and New Earth | High | نۄو آسمان تہٕ نۄو زمین (nav āsmān tay nav zamīn) | — | 21 | Bodily, cosmic renewal-through-transformation of this creation, not a separate reward-garden (contra a flattened Jannah-equivalence reading). |
| 22 | New Jerusalem | Ἰερουσαλὴμ καινή / Ierousalēm kainē | New Heaven and New Earth; Church | High | نۄو یروشلم (Nav Yerūshalam) | — | 3, 21 | Names the glorified people of God, not the modern city or any territorial claim — extremely sensitive given the region’s own geopolitics, parallel to baseline’s existing “Israel” caution. |
| 23 | Millennium / thousand years | χίλια ἔτη / chilia etē | Symbolic/Apocalyptic Interpretation | Medium | ہزار ؤریہ (hazār vari) | — | 20 | Teach the certainty of Christ’s reign without requiring adherence to one specific millennial interpretive schema. |
| 24 | Gog and Magog | Γὼγ καὶ Μαγώγ / Gōg kai Magōg | Sovereignty of God over History; Symbolic/Apocalyptic | Critical | یاجوج تہٕ ماجوج (Yājūj tay Mājūj) | — | 20 | Shared name with a well-known Quranic/hadith eschatological category (Quran 18:94, 21:96); must not be assumed to carry identical narrative content — explicit distinction required, per the pattern already established for Messiah/Gospel in the baseline. |
| 25 | Armageddon | Ἁρμαγεδών / Harmagedōn | Symbolic/Apocalyptic Interpretation | Medium-High | حرمجدون (Harmajaddūn) | — | 16 | Symbolic staging-ground name, not necessarily a literal future geographic battlefield; caution against imported popular-culture connotations. |
| 26 | Root of David | ῥίζα Δαυίδ / rhiza Dauid | Incarnation; Deity of Christ; Davidic Covenant | Critical | داؤدَس ہنٛز ریشہٕ (Dā’ūdas hanz rīsha) | — | 5, 22 | Paradox with baseline’s existing “seed of David” (descendant): Christ is both David’s source (pre-existent/divine) and David’s descendant (human) — full deity and full humanity together. |
| 27 | Lion of the tribe of Judah | λέων ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς Ἰούδα | Messianic Promise | Medium | یہوداہٕ قبیلَس ہنٛد شیر (Yahūdāh qabīlas hind sher) | — | 5 | Messianic title from Genesis 49; reinforces Fulfillment of Prophecy doctrine. |
| 28 | Worthy | ἄξιος / axios | Worship / Christology | Medium | لائق (lā’iq) | — | 4, 5 | Only the Lamb is found worthy — unique redemptive authority. |
| 29 | Repentance | μετάνοια / metanoia | Perseverance; Sanctification | High | توبہ (taubah) | — | 2, 3 (letters), 9, 16 | Central Islamic devotional concept (توبہ); must be taught as Spirit-enabled response to grace already given, not an independent act obligating God’s mercy. |
| 30 | Works/deeds | ἔργα / erga | Judgment; Grace vs. Works | High | عمل (ʿamal) | — | 2, 3, 14, 19, 20, 22 | Central term in Islamic deeds-weighing soteriology (a’mal, mizan); in Revelation, works are evidence/fruit of faith and grounds for reward/discipline, never the ground of acceptance with God. |
| 31 | Crown of life / victor’s wreath | στέφανος (τῆς ζωῆς) / stephanos | Perseverance | Medium | زندگیٕ ہنٛز تاج (zindagī hanz tāj) | — | 2, 3, 4 | Reward-image; distinguish from a royal diadem (διάδημα), which the Beast and the Dragon wear (12:3, 13:1) — a deliberate ironic contrast in the Greek text worth preserving in teaching notes. |
| 32 | Elders (24) | πρεσβύτεροι / presbyteroi | Worship; Church | Medium | بزرگ (buzurg) | ولی (wali) — rejected, per baseline’s existing “saints” entry caution | 4, 5, 7, 11, 14, 19 | بزرگ also names a revered Sufi spiritual master/pir in Rishi tradition; clarify these are heavenly worshipers surrendering all honor to God, not analogous venerated human teachers. |
| 33 | Four living creatures | ζῷα / zōa | Worship | Low | چار زندٕ مخلوق (chār zinda makhlūq) | — | 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 15, 19 | Distinct term from the hostile “Beast” (θηρίον); avoid any shared root that could blur the two. |
| 34 | Two witnesses | οἱ δύο μάρτυρες / hoi dyo martyres | Perseverance/Witness | High | دُ گواہ (du gawāh) | شہید-based rendering rejected, per Martyr entry above | 11 | The book’s central witness pattern in miniature: testimony, apparent defeat, resurrection vindication. |
| 35 | Abyss | ἄβυσσος / abyssos | Sovereignty of God over History | Medium | پاتال / گہرہٕ کھڈ (pātāl / gahrī khadd) | — | 9, 11, 17, 20 | پاتال carries netherworld connotations in wider Indian cosmology; clarify it is a place of confinement under God’s sovereign authority, not an independently ultimate realm. |
| 36 | Great prostitute / Babylon the Great | πόρνη ἡ μεγάλη / Βαβυλὼν ἡ μεγάλη | Judgment; Symbolic/Apocalyptic | Medium-High | وَڈ بدکار / بابل شہر وَڈ (vaḍ badkār / Bābul vaḍ) | — | 14, 17, 18 | Symbolic figure for a corrupt world-system; explicitly contrasted with the pure Bride; not a statement about any literal woman, ethnicity, or community. |
| 37 | Eternal gospel | εὐαγγέλιον αἰώνιον | Gospel; Universal Scope | Medium | ہمیشہ رہنہٕ والہ انجیل | — | 14 | Reuses baseline انجیل exactly; reinforce its existing High-risk caveat re: shared Quranic vocabulary. |
| 38 | Word of God (Logos, as Christ’s title) | ὁ Λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ / ho Logos tou theou | Deity of Christ | Critical | خُدایُک کلام (Khudāyuk kalām) | — | 19 | Point of contact with Quranic “Kalimatullah” (Quran 3:45); must state plainly this names Christ’s eternal, personal, uncreated divine nature, not merely a creative utterance or honorific. |
| 39 | King of kings and Lord of lords | βασιλεὺς βασιλέων καὶ κύριος κυρίων | Lordship of Christ; Return and Reign | Critical | بادشاہن ہنٛدِس بادشاہ تہٕ خُداوندن ہنٛدِس خُداوند | — | 19 | Climactic title of the returning Christ; never soften to “a great ruler” or venerated teacher/pir, per baseline’s existing Lordship caution. |
| 40 | Faithful and True | πιστὸς καὶ ἀληθινός / pistos kai alēthinos | Christology; Assurance | Medium | وفادار تہٕ رٲست (wafādār tay rāst) | — | 19, 21 | Shares root with baseline’s ایمان (faith) and راستبازی (righteousness). |
| 41 | Fine linen = righteous deeds of the saints | τὸ βύσσινον … τὰ δικαιώματα τῶν ἁγίων (19:8) | Justification; Church as Bride | Critical | پاک لوکن ہنٛدِس راست عملَن | — | 19 | Must be taught alongside baseline’s imputed_righteousness/justification entries: fruit of grace, not merit earning the wedding garment itself. |
| 42 | Return of Christ (“I am coming soon”) | Ἔρχομαι ταχύ / Erchomai tachy | Return and Reign of Christ | Critical | بہٕ زوٚ گژھِ آسنہٕ (bah zōv gazhi āsan) | — | 22 (also thematically 1, 19) | Must be explicitly distinguished from Islamic eschatology’s expectation of Isa’s subordinate-prophet return; here Christ returns as sovereign Judge and King in his own divine right. |
| 43 | Angel-worship refused (“Worship God”) | τῷ θεῷ προσκύνησον / tō theō proskynēson | Worship; Christology | High | خُدایہٕ سجدہٕ کر | — | 19, 22 | An internal safeguard text: worship belongs to God and (uniquely) the Lamb alone, never to angels or any other creature — a valuable point of contact with both Islamic and Trika resistance to creature-worship. |
| 44 | No temple — God and the Lamb are its temple | ναὸς αὐτῆς … ὁ θεὸς … καὶ τὸ ἀρνίον | Deity of Christ; New Heaven and New Earth | Critical | خُداوند خُدا تہٕ بَرَّہ پننہٕ مندر چھِ | — | 21 | Among the book’s most architecturally explicit statements of the Lamb’s co-equal deity. |
| 45 | Do not add or take away (canon-guarding warning) | ἐάν τις ἐπιθῇ / ἀφέλῃ (22:18-19) | Inspiration of Scripture | High | اہٕ کِتابس منز کانٛہہ زیادٕ نہٕ کرِ تہٕ کانٛہہ کم نہٕ کرِ | — | 22 | Directly answers the Islamic tahrif doctrine already flagged in the baseline’s gospel/inspiration-of-scripture entries; Scripture’s own self-guarding claim. |
| 46 | Silence in heaven | σιγὴ ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ | Sovereignty of God over History | Low | آسمانَس منز خٲموشی | — | 8 | Minor dramatic device; no significant doctrinal risk. |
| 47 | Trumpets / bowls (judgment-sequence devices) | σάλπιγγες / φιάλαι | Judgment; Symbolic/Apocalyptic | Low-Medium | نرسِنگہٕ / جامہٕ | — | 8-9, 15-16 | Structuring devices for the judgment narrative; caution against over-literalizing as a modern-event checklist. |
| 48 | Little scroll | βιβλαρίδιον / biblaridion | Perseverance/Witness | Low-Medium | نانہٕ طومار (nāna tūmār) | — | 10 | Sweet-then-bitter prophetic calling; minor image. |
| 49 | Mystery of God | τὸ μυστήριον τοῦ θεοῦ | Sovereignty of God over History | Medium | خُدایُک رازہٕ (Khudāyuk rāza) | — | 10 | Distinguish objective, revealed, Scripture-bound mystery from Sufi esoteric “asrar” accessible only to initiates. |
| 50 | Come out of her, my people | Ἐξέλθατε ὁ λαός μου ἐξ αὐτῆς | Separation unto God’s Service | Medium | میانہٕ لوکو، تِمی منز نہٕ راوٕو | — | 18 | Call to ethical/spiritual separation from corrupt systems, not social withdrawal from neighbors of other faiths. |
| 51 | Song of Moses and the Lamb | ᾠδὴ τοῦ Μωϋσέως καὶ τοῦ ἀρνίου | Fulfillment of Prophecy | Medium | موسیٰ ہنٛد نغمہٕ تہٕ بَرَّٕہ ہنٛد نغمہٕ | — | 15 | Unites Old and New Covenant redemption in one act of worship. |
Section B — Baseline Terms Reused with New Revelation-Specific Nuance
The recorded rendering in each case is unchanged from the baseline; only the supplementary teaching note is new.
| Term | Baseline Rendering | Baseline Risk | New Nuance in Revelation | Chapters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord (κύριος) | خُداوند | Critical | Applied jointly with “the Lamb” in worship contexts (5:13) and shares Alpha/Omega title with God (22:13) — reinforces, does not merely repeat, the baseline’s existing Lordship-of-Christ Critical status. | 1, 5, 17, 19, 22 |
| Son of God / Sonship of Christ | خُدایہ ہند پُتر | Critical | Must be carefully distinguished from the different, corporate “son” language of 21:7 (believers’ adoptive sonship) — reserve the baseline’s unique title strictly for Christ. | 21 |
| Kingdom of God | خُدایُک بادشاہت | Medium | Revelation’s militant victory imagery (11:15, 19:11-16) intensifies the existing baseline caution against territorial-political framing, given the region’s contested-sovereignty history. | 11, 12, 19, 20 |
| Israel | اسرائیل | Medium | The 144,000/tribal imagery (ch. 7) and New Jerusalem naming (ch. 21) both require the baseline’s existing caution about the shared name with the modern nation-state. | 7, 21 |
| Saints | پاک لوکہ | High | Now includes the specific vindication-of-the-martyred-saints motif (6:9-11, 19:8) — corporate, not an elite class, per baseline’s existing caution against وَلی. | 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
| Prophet / Prophecy | پیغمبر / پیشن گوئی | Medium | Revelation calls itself “this prophecy” (1:3, 22:7,10,18-19) and closes with a scripture-integrity warning — reinforce the baseline’s existing caution against a Quranic-supersession reading of prophetic revelation. | 1, 10, 11, 19, 22 |
| Apostle | رسول | Critical | The New Jerusalem’s twelve foundation-stones bear “the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb” (21:14) — intensifies, in a highly visual and permanent architectural image, the baseline’s existing caution about رسول’s collision with the title reserved for Muhammad. | 21 |
| Covenant | عہد | Medium | The Ark of the Covenant appearing in the heavenly temple (11:19) and the whole book’s fulfillment structure reinforce covenant continuity from Old to New Testament. | 11, 15 |
| Glory (δόξα) | جلال | High | The New Jerusalem itself has “the glory of God” as its light (21:11, 21:23) — an intensified, climactic application of the baseline’s existing glory entry, again tied to Christ (the Lamb is “its lamp,” 21:23). | 21 |
| David | داؤد | Low | Both “seed of David” (baseline, Rom 1:3) and the new “Root of David” paradox (Rev 5:5, 22:16) apply — the fuller paradox (source and descendant) should be taught using Revelation’s own added phrase, not by expanding the baseline entry itself. | 5, 22 |
| Church (ἐκκλησία) | کلیسیا | Medium | Addressed here as seven concrete, named local congregations under Christ’s direct evaluation (ch. 2-3) and corporately as the Bride (ch. 19, 21) — both the local and the cosmic-corporate senses of the baseline term are active in this curriculum. | 1, 2, 3, 19, 21, 22 |
| Grace | فضل | Critical | The book’s final word (22:21) — deliberately closes an otherwise judgment-saturated book on the baseline’s existing Critical grace note; no new doctrinal content, but a notable structural/pastoral emphasis worth flagging for teaching. | 22 |
This glossary is a supplement to, and must be loaded alongside, the baseline translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json in all Phase 2 processing for the Revelation curriculum. See 07_semantic_analysis.md for full verse-level and chapter-level context on every entry above.
Critical Risk Terms
Grace
Approved rendering: فضل
Transliteration: faz’l
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: شکتی پات (Shaktipat, the Kashmir Shaivite descent of divine power/grace, never use as a substitute), رحم (mercy in the general Islamic sense of divine compassion weighed against deeds, use only as a supporting synonym, never a replacement)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] CRITICAL: must be taught as unearned favor apart from human merit, guarding against Islamic deeds-weighing mercy and Trika shaktipat. Revelation nuance: this is the book’s deliberate final word (22:21), closing an otherwise judgment-saturated book on grace; special care needed at 19:8 (fine linen = righteous deeds of the saints), which must be taught as fruit of already-imputed righteousness, never as merit earning the wedding garment.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: راستبازی
Transliteration: rāstbāzī
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: تقویٰ (piety/God-consciousness, an Islamic virtue achieved through disciplined practice, too works-oriented)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Right standing before God received through faith, not تقویٰ. Revelation nuance: shares its root with ‘Faithful and True’ (وفادار تہٕ رٲست, 19:11, 21:5) and with ‘righteous deeds of the saints’ (19:8), which must be read alongside this entry, not in tension with it.
Justification
Approved rendering: راستباز ٹھہرایہ گیہ
Transliteration: rāstbāz ṭharāyi gyi
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: معافی (forgiveness alone, too narrow)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Forensic, once-for-all legal declaration; never abbreviate to mere forgiveness. Revelation nuance: underlies the correct reading of 19:8’s ‘righteous deeds of the saints’ as fruit, not ground, of standing before God.
Salvation
Approved rendering: نجات
Transliteration: najāt
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: جنت (paradise as a destination, never a stand-alone gloss for salvation itself), موکش (moksha-style liberation, never use for Kashmir Shaivite readers), پرتیبھِجنا (pratyabhijna, self-recognition of one’s own innate divinity in Trika philosophy, never use as a substitute)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Must diverge from Islamic deeds-weighing paradise-entry and from Trika’s pratyabhijna. Revelation nuance: consummated in the Book of Life (grace-based belonging) and the New Jerusalem’s descent as gift from God, not human ascent or attainment.
Apostle
Approved rendering: رسول
Transliteration: rasūl
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: پیغمبر (prophet, a distinct office, avoid conflating)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Reserved in mainstream Islamic usage for Muhammad specifically; must state plainly this names a distinct New Testament office. Revelation nuance: the New Jerusalem’s twelve foundation-stones bear ‘the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb’ (21:14) — a highly visual, permanent architectural image that intensifies the need for this explicit distinction at every occurrence in this book.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: مُردٕن پؠٹھ زندٕ تھِیُن
Transliteration: murdan pyeṭh zinda thyun
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Must state the historical claim plainly against mainstream Sunni denial of the crucifixion (Quran 4:157). Revelation nuance: extends to ‘the first resurrection’ (20:5-6, believers’ share in Christ’s resurrection life) — must retain the same historical, bodily, non-cyclical sense established in the baseline.
Lord
Approved rendering: خُداوند
Transliteration: Khudāwand
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: مالِک (owner/master, reserve for ordinary human authority contexts)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Exclusive, supreme Lordship. Revelation nuance: applied jointly to Christ and God on the shared throne (5:13, 17:14, 22:13) and shares the Alpha/Omega title with the Father — reinforces, with fresh escalating textual weight, the baseline’s existing Critical status.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: خُدایہ ہند پُتر
Transliteration: Khudāya hind putr
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: نبی (a great prophet, an explicit downgrade and mainstream Islamic reading of Isa’s status, rejected)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Full phrase required, direct Tawhid flashpoint. Revelation nuance: reused at 2:18; must be reserved EXCLUSIVELY for Christ’s unique, eternal Sonship and never applied to the believer’s corporate adoptive sonship of 21:7, which uses the separate adoption phrase instead — a distinction this Language Package treats as Critical.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: خُدا منش رُوپ منز آمت
Transliteration: Khudā manūsh rūp manz āmat
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: اوتار (avatar, never use)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Two distinct objections (shirk for Muslim readers; impersonal spanda self-manifestation for Trika readers) must be taught into directly. Revelation nuance: consummated at 21:3 (‘the tabernacle/dwelling of God is with man’) — see tabernacle_dwelling below, which must be tied explicitly to this doctrine as its final fulfillment, not an unrelated image.
Messiah
Approved rendering: مسیح
Transliteration: Masīḥ
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Shared Quranic title; content differs sharply. Revelation nuance: paired with the new Root of David / Lion of Judah titles (5:5, 22:16), reinforcing the Fulfillment of Prophecy doctrine.
Jesus
Approved rendering: یِسوع
Transliteration: Yisū’
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: عیسیٰ (the Quranic form, reserve only for explicit interfaith-dialogue contexts)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained without exception throughout Revelation’s translation.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: پاک روح
Transliteration: pāk rūḥ
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: روح القدس (Ruh al-Qudus, never use interchangeably without explicit distinction)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: underlies the closing ‘the Spirit and the Bride say, Come’ (22:17) — reinforce that this is the divine Person’s own corporate, Spirit-enabled invitation, not an impersonal life-force.
Father
Approved rendering: باپت
Transliteration: bāpath
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; underlies the relational logic of 21:7’s corporate sonship (see corporate_sonship_21_7 below), though the title itself is not repeated verbatim in that verse.
Imputed Righteousness
Approved rendering: دِتمُت راستبازی
Transliteration: ditmut rāstbāzī
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Rejected alternatives: حاصل کرمُت راستبازی (earned righteousness, rejected)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: essential to correctly reading 19:8’s ‘fine linen…the righteous deeds of the saints’ as fruit of already-imputed righteousness, never as merit earning the wedding garment itself — see fine_linen_righteous_deeds below.
Lamb
Approved rendering: بَرَّہٕ
Transliteration: Barrah
Doctrine: Return and Reign of Christ / Worship of the Lamb
Original: ἀρνίον
Category: Christology
Revelation’s dominant title for Christ (28 uses): the once-slain, now-standing-and-reigning Lamb, evoking Passover and Isaiah 53. No existing baseline entry; must be fixed precisely. Must be taught against mainstream Islamic denial of any atoning death of Christ occurring at all (cf. baseline’s Critical resurrection note re: Quran 4:157). The slaughtered-yet-triumphant paradox has no ready equivalent in Islamic or Trika frameworks and must be taught from the ground up.
Worship Of Lamb
Approved rendering: سجدہ کرُن
Transliteration: sajda karun
Doctrine: Worship of the Lamb
Rejected alternatives: عبادت کرُن (used only as a supporting synonym, never a substitute that dilutes the prostration sense)
Original: προσκυνέω
Category: Worship
Physical prostration/homage offered jointly to God and to the Lamb (5:13, 7:9-12). سجدہ shares its Arabic root with the ritual prostration mainstream Islamic practice reserves exclusively for Allah; directing it to the Lamb is a deliberate, central claim of Christ’s full, unqualified deity and must never be softened. Pair with angel_worship_refused (19:10, 22:8-9) as Scripture’s own internal safeguard against creature-worship.
Alpha And Omega
Approved rendering: اَلفا تہٕ اومیگا
Transliteration: Alfā tay Ōmēgā
Doctrine: Deity of Christ in Revelation
Original: τὸ Ἄλφα καὶ τὸ Ὦ
Category: Christology
Applied identically to God the Father (1:8) and to Jesus (22:13); gloss as اِبتدا تہٕ اِنتہا (beginning and end). A first-order flashpoint with Tawhid doctrine (Quran 112); must be taught into directly, exactly per the baseline’s mandate for Sonship/Deity of Christ, never softened.
Martyr
Approved rendering: یِسوعُک گواہی خٲطرہ جان دِنہ
Transliteration: Yisū’uk gawāhī khātrah jān dinah
Doctrine: Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
Rejected alternatives: شہید (shahīd) — FORBIDDEN as primary term; may appear only in an explanatory footnote contrasting it with this required descriptive phrase, never in running text
Original: μάρτυς (developed sense)
Category: Perseverance
CRITICAL, highest-stakes term in this curriculum: شہید carries both mainstream Islamic religious-martyrdom theology (automatic paradise for dying in Allah’s cause) AND the region’s own intensely charged political usage for those killed in Kashmir’s armed conflict. Biblical martys dies specifically for verbal testimony to Christ’s Lordship, is vindicated by resurrection/God’s justice rather than armed struggle, and gains no additional merit thereby. Theologian review required at every occurrence (2:13, 6:9-11, 11:7-12, 17:6).
Shared Throne
Approved rendering: تخت
Transliteration: takht
Doctrine: Deity of Christ in Revelation
Original: ὁ θρόνος τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἀρνίου
Category: Christology
The single, undivided throne shared without distinction by the Father and the Lamb (22:1,3), plus the general throne of divine sovereignty elsewhere (Medium risk when God’s alone, e.g. ch. 4). The shared-throne sense is among the book’s clearest, most architecturally explicit statements of Christ’s full co-equal deity and must be taught plainly, never softened.
Beast
Approved rendering: حیوان
Transliteration: haiwān
Doctrine: Antichrist and Cosmic Conflict
Original: τὸ θηρίον
Category: Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation
A monstrous composite figure symbolizing worldly political-religious power in opposition to God (ch. 13, 16, 17, 19, 20). Mainstream Islamic eschatology’s al-Dajjal tradition is a genuinely close narrative parallel; must state plainly the Beast is a distinct theological figure with its own logic and timeline, not simply an alternate name for Dajjal, while acknowledging the parallel respectfully.
False Prophet
Approved rendering: کُوٹھ پیغمبر
Transliteration: kūṭh paighambar
Doctrine: Antichrist and Cosmic Conflict
Original: ὁ ψευδοπροφήτης
Category: Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation
A deceiving religious-propagandist figure compelling worship of the first beast (13:11-17, 16:13, 19:20, 20:10). Built on the established پیغمبر honorific used in Islamic usage for Muhammad and recognized prophets; must state clearly at first use that this is a symbolic apocalyptic figure within John’s vision, not a statement about any historical religious founder’s status.
Second Death
Approved rendering: دویُم موت
Transliteration: dōyum möt
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: ὁ θάνατος ὁ δεύτερος
Category: Judgment
Final, irreversible exclusion following bodily resurrection and judgment (2:11, 20:6,14, 21:8). Must be distinguished from mainstream Islamic shafa’a (eventual release from Jahannam through the Prophet’s authorized intercession) and from Kashmir Shaivism, which has no category of final personal judgment at all since ultimate reality is non-dual.
Lake Of Fire
Approved rendering: پزہٕ تہٕ گندھکہٕ سٟتی بلنہٕ والِس جهیلس منز
Transliteration: pazah tay gandhaka sāti balan wālis jhīlas manz
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: ἡ λίμνη ἡ καιομένη πυρὶ καὶ θείῳ
Category: Judgment
“The lake burning with fire and sulfur,” a fixed image (19:20, 20:10,14-15, 21:8) for final, conscious, eternal judgment. Same distinction as second_death applies; must never be abbreviated to a bare word for ‘hell,’ which would default toward Jahannam associations without the finality distinction. Always render as the full descriptive clause.
Book Of Life
Approved rendering: زندگیُک کِتاب
Transliteration: zindagī’uk kitāb
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: τὸ βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς
Category: Judgment
The register of those who belong to God through the Lamb, decisive at final judgment alongside the deeds-books (3:5, 13:8, 17:8, 20:12,15, 21:27). Must be distinguished explicitly from Islamic al-mizan (deeds-weighing scale) and Lawh al-Mahfuz (Preserved Tablet, decreed-events register); final salvation hinges on grace-based inclusion, not deeds-balance — the crux of the book’s soteriology.
Gog And Magog
Approved rendering: یاجوج تہٕ ماجوج
Transliteration: Yājūj tay Mājūj
Doctrine: Assurance of God’s Final Victory over Evil
Original: Γὼγ καὶ Μαγώγ
Category: Eschatology
End-times nations gathered in final, futile rebellion against God (20:8, echoing Ezekiel 38-39). Shared vocabulary with a well-known Islamic eschatological category (Quran 18:94, 21:96, elaborated in hadith); must not be assumed to carry identical narrative content — state plainly this serves a distinct, though related, theological function, exactly as the baseline handles Messiah/Gospel.
Root Of David
Approved rendering: داؤدَس ہنٛز ریشہٕ
Transliteration: Dā’ūdas hanz rīsha
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Messianic Prophecy
Original: ἡ ῥίζα Δαυίδ
Category: Christology
A Messianic title (Isaiah 11:1,10) meaning Messiah is David’s source (pre-existent, divine), paired paradoxically with his descent from David (human) (5:5, 22:16). Easy to flatten into ‘just another descendant of David,’ losing the pre-existence claim; must be taught explicitly alongside the baseline’s seed_of_david entry as one deliberate paradox of full deity and full humanity.
Word Of God Logos
Approved rendering: خُدایُک کلام
Transliteration: Khudāyuk kalām
Doctrine: Deity of Christ in Revelation
Original: ὁ Λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Christology
The Johannine title for Christ’s eternal divine personhood, applied to the returning Christ (19:13; cf. John 1:1,14). Genuine point of contact with the Quranic title ‘Kalimatullah’ (Quran 3:45, 4:171) applied to Isa, but mainstream Islamic theology explicitly denies this implies personal, eternal, uncreated deity; must state plainly the Johannine Logos is the eternal, personal, divine Son himself.
King Of Kings
Approved rendering: بادشاہن ہنٛدِس بادشاہ تہٕ خُداوندن ہنٛدِس خُداوند
Transliteration: bādshāhan hindis bādshāh tay Khudāwandan hindis Khudāwand
Doctrine: The Return and Reign of Christ
Original: βασιλεὺς βασιλέων καὶ κύριος κυρίων
Category: Christology
The climactic title of the returning Christ (19:16): supreme, unqualified sovereignty over every other authority. Ties directly to the baseline’s Critical Lordship-of-Christ doctrine; must never be softened to suggest Christ is merely a great ruler among others, or a venerated teacher/pir.
Fine Linen Righteous Deeds
Approved rendering: پاک لوکن ہنٛدِس راست عملَن
Transliteration: pāk lūkan hindis rāst ‘amalan
Doctrine: Grace as the Book’s Final Word
Original: τὸ βύσσινον … τὰ δικαιώματα τῶν ἁγίων
Category: Salvation
The Bride’s wedding garment, explicitly identified as ‘the righteous deeds of the saints’ (19:8). Carries genuine risk of being read as works-based merit, reinforcing the Islamic deeds-weighing default; must be taught as the fruit of already-imputed righteousness (baseline Romans 4), granted and enabled by grace, never in tension with the baseline’s imputed_righteousness entry.
Return Of Christ
Approved rendering: بہٕ زوٚ گژھِ آسنہٕ
Transliteration: bah zōv gazhi āsan
Doctrine: The Return and Reign of Christ
Original: Ἔρχομαι ταχύ
Category: Eschatology
“I am coming soon” — Christ’s own certain, imminent return, repeated three times (22:7,12,20). Must be explicitly distinguished from Islamic eschatology’s expectation of Isa’s return as a subordinate prophet who defeats al-Dajjal, marries, dies naturally, and confirms Muhammad’s message; here Christ returns in his own right as sovereign Judge and King.
No Temple God And Lamb
Approved rendering: خُداوند خُدا تہٕ بَرَّہ پننہٕ مندر چھِ
Transliteration: Khudāwand Khudā tay Barrah panu-nas mandar chhi
Doctrine: Deity of Christ in Revelation
Original: ναὸς αὐτῆς … ὁ θεὸς … καὶ τὸ ἀρνίον
Category: Christology
“I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God…is its temple, and the Lamb” (21:22) — direct, unmediated divine presence replacing every prior sanctuary structure. Among the book’s most architecturally explicit statements of the Lamb’s co-equal deity; teach directly, alongside the shared-throne motif of ch. 22, never softened.
Corporate Sonship 21 7
Approved rendering: خدا ہند فرزند بنٲوُن
Transliteration: Khudā hind farzand banāwun
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Rejected alternatives: خُدایہ ہند پُتر — FORBIDDEN here; that title is reserved exclusively for Christ’s unique, eternal, co-equal Sonship
Original: ἔσομαι αὐτῷ θεὸς καὶ αὐτὸς ἔσται μοι υἱός
Category: Salvation
“I will be his God and he will be my son” (21:7) — the overcomer’s corporate adoptive sonship, distinct from Christ’s unique eternal Sonship. CRITICAL disambiguation: must use the baseline’s adoption phrase here, and must NEVER use the baseline’s reserved Christological title. Conflating the two would blur a distinction the baseline itself treats as Critical. This is a distinct concept from the identically-spelled baseline ‘adoption’ entry only in that it is anchored to this specific verse’s overcomer context.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: انجیل
Transliteration: Injīl
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: اچھی خبر (a plain descriptive gloss, acceptable only as an explanatory aside)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Injil is shared Quranic vocabulary understood by mainstream Islamic teaching as a scripture given to Isa and later corrupted (tahrif); must present the actual New Testament content rather than assume the shared word carries it. Revelation nuance: reused at 14:6 as ‘the eternal gospel’ proclaimed to every nation — reinforce the same tahrif caution there.
Faith
Approved rendering: ایمان
Transliteration: īmān
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: یقین (certainty/conviction, too intellectual/impersonal alone)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Object of faith must be made explicit — personal trust in Christ specifically. Revelation nuance: بے ایمان (faithless/unbeliever, 21:8) is built on this root with a negating prefix and names the absence of personal trust in Christ specifically, not generic religious unbelief.
Called
Approved rendering: سَدہ گیہ
Transliteration: sada gyi
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: دعوت دِنہ (invited, too weak)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Context-sensitive across Romans senses; not prominently reused in Revelation’s own vocabulary but retained for cross-curriculum consistency.
Calling
Approved rendering: سَدنُک
Transliteration: sadanuk
Doctrine: Divine Calling
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; no new Revelation-specific nuance identified.
Holy
Approved rendering: پاک
Transliteration: pāk
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: صاف (physically clean, ritual-ablution sense, avoid as a substitute)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Moral purity and set-apartness for God. Revelation nuance: underlies ‘the holy city’ (پاک شہر, 21:2,10) and the triple Trisagion ‘Holy, holy, holy’ (4:8), Scripture’s own worship pattern.
Saints
Approved rendering: پاک لوکہ
Transliteration: pāk lūkh
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: ولی (a Sufi saint venerated at a shrine, never use for the corporate biblical sense)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Corporate designation, not an elite ascetic class. Revelation nuance: now includes the specific vindication-of-the-martyred-saints motif (6:9-11) and the Bride’s wedding garment identified as ‘the righteous deeds of the saints’ (19:8) — retain the corporate sense in both.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: پاکیزگی
Transliteration: pākīzagī
Doctrine: Sanctification
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; no distinct new Revelation nuance beyond the general holiness/set-apartness theme carried by پاک.
Adoption
Approved rendering: خدا ہند فرزند بنٲوُن
Transliteration: Khudā hind farzand banāwun
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] CRITICAL companion rule for Revelation: this exact phrase, not the baseline’s reserved خُدایہ ہند پُتر (Son of God), must be used for the overcomer’s corporate sonship at 21:7 (‘I will be his God and he will be my son’). Never conflate the two — see corporate_sonship_21_7 below.
Law
Approved rendering: شریعت
Transliteration: sharī’at
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; not a load-bearing term in Revelation’s own vocabulary.
Sin
Approved rendering: گناہ
Transliteration: gunāh
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: underlies the sin-list of 21:8 and 22:15 (idolaters, sorcerers, the sexually immoral, murderers, liars) — real moral guilt before a personal, distinct God, not the impersonal ignorance (avidya) of Trika thought.
Glory
Approved rendering: جلال
Transliteration: jalāl
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: the New Jerusalem itself has ‘the glory of God’ as its light (21:11,23), with the Lamb as its lamp — an intensified, climactic application again tied directly to Christ.
Obedience Of Faith
Approved rendering: ایمانہ منز فرمانبرداری
Transliteration: īmāna manz farmānbardārī
Doctrine: Obedience of Faith
Rejected alternatives: شریعتہ ہنٛز فرمانبرداری (rule-obedience to religious law, rejected)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; not directly reused in Revelation’s own vocabulary, though its logic underlies works_deeds below.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: خُدایُک قوت
Transliteration: Khudāyuk quwwat
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Rejected alternatives: شکتی (Shakti, avoid as the primary term)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: kept distinct from the new term قادرِ مطلق (Almighty/Pantokrator, see almighty_pantokrator below), which names total sovereign rule rather than saving power specifically — both avoid شکتی.
Election
Approved rendering: خُدایُک چُنٲوُن
Transliteration: Khudāyuk chunāwun
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: قسمت (fate, use with caution)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; underlies the Book of Life doctrine’s grace-based-belonging logic even though not a separately reused term in Revelation’s own text.
Providence
Approved rendering: خُدایُک انتظام
Transliteration: Khudāyuk intizām
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: قسمت (fate/taqdir, use with caution)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: Revelation’s sovereignty is more combative/judicial (God sovereign over hostile powers and cosmic rebellion) than Romans 8:28’s pastoral providential-care register; retain this term for Romans-style contexts and use the new قادرِ مطلق (Almighty) as the primary term for Revelation’s cosmic-historical sovereignty scope.
God
Approved rendering: خُدا
Transliteration: Khudā
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: must consistently be presented in explicitly Christ-inclusive terms given the book’s repeated joint-throne, joint-title (Alpha/Omega), and joint-worship applications to God and the Lamb together.
Abba
Approved rendering: ابّا
Transliteration: Abbā
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; not separately reused in Revelation’s own text.
Seed Of David
Approved rendering: داؤدَس نسلہ منٛز
Transliteration: Dā’ūdas naslah manz
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: must be taught paired with the new ‘Root of David’ phrase (see root_of_david below) as one deliberate paradox — Messiah as both David’s source and David’s descendant, full deity and full humanity together.
Almighty Pantokrator
Approved rendering: قادرِ مطلق
Transliteration: Qādir-e-Mutlaq
Doctrine: Sovereignty of God over History
Rejected alternatives: شکتی-based renderings (rejected per baseline’s power_of_god caution)
Original: Παντοκράτωρ
Category: God
“Ruler of all”; total divine sovereignty, applied to God (1:8, 4:8, etc.) and, via the shared Alpha/Omega title, implicitly to Christ (22:13). Qādir is one of the traditional 99 divine names in Islamic theology, a genuine point of contact requiring explicit teaching that this title belongs to Christ himself, not merely an undifferentiated God the Muslim reader may assume excludes Jesus.
Witness Testimony
Approved rendering: گواہی
Transliteration: gawāhī
Doctrine: Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
Original: μαρτυρία
Category: Perseverance
Formal testimony borne to Jesus, increasingly costly through the book (1:9). Must be kept distinct from the specifically Islamic legal/juridical sense of گواہی by anchoring it explicitly to testimony about Christ’s Lordship, always as a fixed collocation with ‘of/about Jesus’, never bare.
Overcomer
Approved rendering: غالب بننہٕ والہ
Transliteration: ghālib banan wālah
Doctrine: Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
Rejected alternatives: جہاد سٟتی فتح (victory through jihad-style struggle) — explicitly rejected framing
Original: ὁ νικῶν
Category: Perseverance
“The one who conquers/overcomes,” defined explicitly at 12:11 as through the blood of the Lamb and the word of testimony. The Arabic root of jihād is a live semantic neighbor in regional religious vocabulary (including Sufi ‘greater jihad’); must state explicitly this is the fruit of trust in Christ’s finished work and Spirit-given endurance, never meritorious struggle.
Patient Endurance
Approved rendering: صبر
Transliteration: sabr
Doctrine: Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
Original: ὑπομονή
Category: Perseverance
Steadfast endurance under trial (1:9, 2:2-3, 13:10, 14:12). صبر is a central Islamic virtue-term (patient trust in qadar); must always be re-anchored explicitly to hope in Christ’s certain, personal return and victory, never left as a bare, undefined virtue-term risking a fatalistic reading.
Bride
Approved rendering: عروس
Transliteration: ‘arūs
Doctrine: The Church as Bride of Christ
Original: νύμφη
Category: Church
The Church corporately, prepared and adorned for permanent covenant union with Christ (19:7, 21:2,9, 22:17). Genuine point of contact with Rishi Sufi/Lal Ded bridal-mysticism; must be taught as marriage between two permanently distinct persons, not mystical merger/absorption (contra fana and Trika non-dualism). Every occurrence requires this explicit clarification.
Marriage Supper Of Lamb
Approved rendering: بَرَّٕہ ہنٛز شادی ہنٛز دعوت
Transliteration: Barrah hanz shādī hanz da’wat
Doctrine: The Church as Bride of Christ
Original: ὁ γάμος τοῦ ἀρνίου
Category: Church
Consummation of the Bride/Bridegroom covenant relationship (19:9). Carries the same Sufi bridal-mysticism collision risk as the bride entry and must be handled with the same explicit distinction.
Mark Of The Beast
Approved rendering: حیوانُک نِشان
Transliteration: haiwānuk nishān
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου
Category: Judgment
The direct symbolic counterpart to God’s protective seal on his servants (ch. 7, 13:16-17, 14:9-11). Caution against reducing to speculative identification with any real-world technology or numbering system, a widespread folk-interpretive risk.
New Heaven New Earth
Approved rendering: نۄو آسمان تہٕ نۄو زمین
Transliteration: nav āsmān tay nav zamīn
Doctrine: The New Heaven and New Earth
Original: οὐρανὸν καινὸν καὶ γῆν καινήν
Category: Eschatology
Total, qualitative renewal of the entire created order (21:1) — bodily, not merely spiritual, hope. Mainstream Islamic eschatology’s Jannah is a prepared reward-garden, typically a different realm rather than this creation renewed; must state explicitly that Revelation teaches cosmic continuity-through-transformation, not a wholly separate reward-realm.
New Jerusalem
Approved rendering: نۄو یروشلم
Transliteration: Nav Yerūshalam
Doctrine: The New Heaven and New Earth
Original: Ἰερουσαλὴμ καινή
Category: Eschatology
The glorified, consummated people of God descending from heaven, adorned as a bride (3:12, 21:2,9-27). Like the baseline’s ‘Israel’ caution, carries intense contemporary political weight in the region; must state plainly this names the glorified people of God, not the modern city or any territorial claim.
Repentance
Approved rendering: توبہ
Transliteration: taubah
Doctrine: Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
Original: μετάνοια
Category: Sanctification
A Spirit-worked inward turning from sin toward God, repeated as a call to each of the seven churches (2:5,16,21-22, 3:3,19, 9:20-21, 16:9-11). توبہ is a central Islamic devotional concept (turning back to Allah); must be taught as a response worked by grace already given, not an independent human act obligating God’s mercy in a deeds-weighing framework.
Works Deeds
Approved rendering: عمل
Transliteration: ‘amal
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: ἔργα
Category: Judgment
The totality of a person’s conduct, examined by Christ as evidence of genuine faith (2:2,19, 3:1,15, 14:13, 20:12-13, 22:12). عمل is the core term in Islamic deeds-weighing soteriology (a’mal, mizan); must be taught that works are fruit/evidence of union with Christ, examined for reward/discipline, never the ground of acceptance with God.
Two Witnesses
Approved rendering: دُ گواہ
Transliteration: du gawāh
Doctrine: Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
Original: οἱ δύο μάρτυρες
Category: Perseverance
Two prophetic figures who testify, are killed, and are raised — the book’s central witness pattern in miniature (11:3-12). Must be distinguished from the politically-charged regional usage of شہید for those who die in armed conflict; these witnesses die for testifying to Christ, vindicated by resurrection, not by armed struggle.
Great Prostitute Babylon
Approved rendering: وَڈ بدکار / بابل شہر وَڈ
Transliteration: vaḍ badkār / Bābul shahr vaḍ
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: ἡ πόρνη ἡ μεγάλη / Βαβυλὼν ἡ μεγάλη
Category: Judgment
A symbolic figure for a corrupt world-system seducing the nations into idolatry (ch. 14, 17, 18). Explicitly not a statement about any literal woman, ethnicity, or religious community; contrasted deliberately with the pure Bride (ch. 19, 21).
Angel Worship Refused
Approved rendering: خُدایہٕ سجدہٕ کر
Transliteration: Khudāyah sajdah kar
Doctrine: Worship of the Lamb
Original: τῷ θεῷ προσκύνησον
Category: Worship
“Worship God” — the angel’s explicit refusal of John’s worship, redirecting it to God alone (19:10, 22:8-9). An important internal safeguard: Revelation itself insists worship belongs to God (and the Lamb) alone — never to angels, saints, or any created being; teach this as reinforcing, not undermining, the Lamb’s unique worthiness to receive that same worship because he is not a mere creature.
Canon Guarding Warning
Approved rendering: اہٕ کِتابس منز کانٛہہ زیادٕ نہٕ کرِ تہٕ کانٛہہ کم نہٕ کرِ
Transliteration: ah kitābas manz kānh zyādi na kari tay kānh kam na kari
Doctrine: Inspiration and Inviolability of Scripture
Original: ἐάν τις ἐπιθῇ ἐπ’ αὐτά … ἐάν τις ἀφέλῃ ἀπὸ τῶν λόγων
Category: Covenant
A solemn covenant-document warning against adding to or taking from the words of this prophecy (22:18-19, echoing Deuteronomy 4:2). Directly answers the Islamic tahrif doctrine (earlier scriptures including the Injil textually corrupted, superseded by the Quran) already flagged in the baseline; teach as Scripture’s own self-guarding claim to complete, uncorrupted integrity.
Son Of Man
Approved rendering: منشس ہند پُتر
Transliteration: manshas hind putr
Doctrine: Deity of Christ in Revelation
Original: υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου
Category: Christology
The Danielic title (Dan 7:13) for the divine-human figure given everlasting dominion, applied to the risen, glorified Christ (1:13-16). Combines full humanity with the Ancient of Days’ own glory; must connect to both Incarnation and Deity-of-Christ, avoiding a rendering that reads as merely ‘a human being.‘
Keys Of Death And Hades
Approved rendering: موتہٕ تہٕ عالمِ برزخُک کُنٛجی
Transliteration: möt tay ‘ālam-e-barzakh uk kunjī
Doctrine: The Return and Reign of Christ
Original: αἱ κλεῖς τοῦ θανάτου καὶ τοῦ ᾅδου
Category: Christology
Christ’s sovereign authority over death and the realm of the dead, granted by his resurrection (1:18). عالمِ برزخ (barzakh, the Islamic intermediate realm) is a live theological category for Muslim readers; note the point of contact but clarify Christ’s unique, sovereign authority over this realm, not shared with any other mediating figure.
Synagogue Of Satan
Approved rendering: شیطانُک عبادت خانہٕ (سِیاق سٟتی وضاحت ضروری)
Transliteration: shaitānuk ‘ibādat khānah (siyāq sāti wazāhat zarūrī)
Doctrine: Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
Original: συναγωγὴ τοῦ Σατανᾶ
Category: Church
A polemical label for a specific historical hostile group opposing the Smyrna and Philadelphia churches (2:9, 3:9). A first-century polemic against a specific local group, not a general statement about Jewish people, nor a template for interreligious polemic today; render literally but with a MANDATORY contextual footnote given the region’s already-sensitive communal relations.
Tabernacle Dwelling
Approved rendering: سکونت / ڈیرہٕ
Transliteration: sukūnat / ḍērah
Doctrine: The New Heaven and New Earth
Original: ἡ σκηνή
Category: Christology
God’s manifest dwelling-presence among his people (21:3), the eschatological fulfillment of the Old Testament tent of meeting and of the Incarnation itself (John 1:14). Must be tied explicitly to the Incarnation doctrine as its consummation, not an unrelated image; must not be flattened into a generic architectural ‘temple’ term, since 21:22 explicitly says the city has no temple building.
Water River Of Life
Approved rendering: زندگیُک آب / زندگیُک آبُک دریاو
Transliteration: zindagī’uk āb / zindagī’uk ābuk daryāv
Doctrine: The New Heaven and New Earth
Original: τὸ ὕδωρ τῆς ζωῆς / ὁ ποταμὸς ὕδατος ζωῆς
Category: Eschatology
Life-giving water freely given, flowing from the throne of God and the Lamb, echoing John 4 and Ezekiel 47 (21:6, 22:1-2). Should connect to the baseline’s Critical Holy Spirit doctrine where appropriate, without over-literalizing as ordinary water; the shared throne as its single source reinforces the shared-throne Christological point.
Freely Without Cost
Approved rendering: مُفت / بغٲیر قیٖمتہٕ
Transliteration: muft / baghair qīmata
Doctrine: Grace as the Book’s Final Word
Original: δωρεάν
Category: Salvation
“As a free gift, gratis” — the water of life given without payment (21:6, 22:17). Shares conceptual ground with the baseline’s Critical فضل (grace) entry; must be taught alongside it: received by faith, not achieved by merit-weighing (Islamic soteriology) nor unlocked by self-effort/ascetic attainment (Sufi mujahada or Trika sadhana).
Twelve Gates Foundations Apostles
Approved rendering: دٔہہ بار دروازہٕ / دٔہہ بار رسول
Transliteration: dah bār darwāzah / dah bār rasūl
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Messianic Prophecy
Original: δώδεκα πυλῶνες … θεμέλιοι … δώδεκα ἀποστόλων
Category: Church
The New Jerusalem’s gates named for the twelve tribes and its foundations named for the twelve apostles (21:12-14), architecturally uniting Old and New Covenant peoples of God. Reuses baseline اسرائیل and رسول; the twelve named apostles as literal foundation-stones intensifies the need for the baseline’s existing Critical caution that رسول collides with the title reserved for Muhammad.
Servants Worship And Reign
Approved rendering: تِمَن ہندٕ خدمتگار تِس عبادت کرِن، تہٕ ہمیشہٕ بادشاہت کرِن
Transliteration: timan handi khidmatgār tis ‘ibādat karin, tay hamēsha bādshāhat karin
Doctrine: Worship of the Lamb
Original: οἱ δοῦλοι αὐτοῦ λατρεύσουσιν αὐτῷ … βασιλεύσουσιν εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων
Category: Worship
God’s servants worshiping him and reigning forever and ever (22:3,5), the climactic guarantee of eternal worship and reign. عبادت is the core Islamic term for worship due exclusively to Allah; using it here of the Lamb reinforces, rather than avoids, the deliberate Critical Christological point already established at 5:13 and should be taught as such, not softened toward a merely honorific rendering.
Spirit And Bride Say Come
Approved rendering: پاک روح تہٕ عروس چھِ زِ چھِ ونان “ہیو”
Transliteration: pāk rūh tay ‘arūs chhi zi chhi wanān “hyo”
Doctrine: The Church as Bride of Christ
Original: Τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ ἡ νύμφη λέγουσιν· Ἔρχου
Category: Church
The Church’s Spirit-empowered corporate longing for Christ’s return (22:17). Reuses baseline پاک روح and the Bride motif; reinforces that this is corporate, Spirit-enabled invitation, not individual mystical absorption, guarding against the Sufi bridal-mysticism collision risk flagged at the bride entry.
Medium Risk Terms
Peace
Approved rendering: امن
Transliteration: amn
Doctrine: Peace with God
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; handle with the same regional-conflict sensitivity noted in the baseline if ‘peace’ language appears in Revelation study materials.
Spiritual Gifts
Approved rendering: روحانی نعمتہ
Transliteration: rūḥānī ni’amat
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Rejected alternatives: کرامت (a Sufi saint’s miraculous gift/charism, avoid as the primary term)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; no distinct new Revelation nuance identified.
Church
Approved rendering: کلیسیا
Transliteration: kalīsiyā
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: مسجد (mosque, never use), مندر (temple, never use)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: addressed as seven concrete, named local congregations under Christ’s direct evaluation (ch. 2-3) AND corporately as the Bride (ch. 19, 21) — both senses are active and should be taught as complementary, not competing.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: خُدایُک بادشاہت
Transliteration: Khudāyuk bādshāhat
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: Revelation’s militant victory imagery (11:15, ‘the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord’; 19:11-16) intensifies the baseline’s existing caution against territorial-political framing, given the region’s contested-sovereignty history.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: غیر-قوم
Transliteration: ghair-qaum
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: reused at 21:24 (‘the nations will walk by its light’) as the consummation of the baseline’s Universal Scope doctrine.
Prophet
Approved rendering: پیغمبر
Transliteration: paighambar
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: this exact honorific underlies the new term ‘false prophet’ (کُوٹھ پیغمبر) at 13:11 — must state clearly at first use that the false prophet is a symbolic apocalyptic figure within John’s vision, not commentary on any historical religious founder who bears this honorific in other traditions.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: پیشن گوئی
Transliteration: pēshan go’ī
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: the book calls itself ‘this prophecy’ (1:3, 22:7,10,18-19) and closes with a scripture-integrity warning — reinforces the baseline’s caution against a Quranic-supersession reading of prophetic revelation.
Covenant
Approved rendering: عہد
Transliteration: ‘ahd
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: the Ark of the Covenant appears in the heavenly temple (11:19), reinforcing Old-to-New Testament covenant continuity that the whole book’s fulfillment structure depends on.
Intercession
Approved rendering: منٛزبولی
Transliteration: manzbolī
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Rejected alternatives: شفاعت (a Sufi saint’s or Muhammad’s mediating intercession, avoid as a substitute)
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: underlies ‘the prayers of the saints’ rising like incense (5:8, 8:3-4) — direct access to God through Christ, not through شفاعت (an authorized human/angelic mediator’s intercession), reinforced against the same doctrine at the second_death entry below.
Mission
Approved rendering: انجیلہ ہنٛز منادی
Transliteration: Injīla hanz munādī
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; underlies the ‘eternal gospel…to every nation’ proclamation of 14:6.
Israel
Approved rendering: اسرائیل
Transliteration: Isrā’īl
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: both the 144,000/tribal imagery (7:4-8) and the New Jerusalem’s gate-naming (21:12) require the baseline’s existing caution about the shared name with the modern nation-state, given the region’s own geopolitics.
Tribulation
Approved rendering: مصیبت
Transliteration: musībat
Doctrine: Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
Original: θλῖψις
Category: Perseverance
Affliction/persecution suffered specifically for the faith (2:9-10, 7:14). Handle with pastoral sensitivity given the region’s own decades of hardship; distinguish theological ‘tribulation for Christ’ from general political/communal suffering without collapsing the categories.
Number Of The Beast
Approved rendering: چہٕ سؤ چھَ ہ چھَ
Transliteration: che sav che-sath che
Doctrine: Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation
Original: ἑξακόσιοι ἑξήκοντα ἕξ
Category: Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation
666 (13:18): a symbolic number representing imperfect/incomplete power falling short of God’s completeness. Flag strongly for interpretive guidance against folk numerology speculation; not an open invitation to identify any contemporary figure.
Dragon Satan
Approved rendering: اژدہا
Transliteration: azhdahā
Doctrine: Assurance of God’s Final Victory over Evil
Original: ὁ δράκων
Category: Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation
“That ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan” (12:9). Point of contact with the shared Quranic Iblis/Shaitan figure; the ch. 12 woman-dragon combat imagery should not be assimilated to wider Indian goddess-versus-demon mythic patterns — the woman represents God’s covenant people, not a divine warrior-goddess figure.
Millennium
Approved rendering: ہزار ؤریہ
Transliteration: hazār vari
Doctrine: Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation
Original: χίλια ἔτη
Category: Eschatology
A bounded thousand-year period of Christ’s/the saints’ reign (20:2-7), understood variously across Christian interpretive traditions. Teach the certainty of Christ’s triumph without requiring commitment to one specific millennial interpretive school as the only orthodox option.
Armageddon
Approved rendering: حرمجدون
Transliteration: Harmajaddūn
Doctrine: Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation
Original: Ἁρμαγεδών
Category: Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation
A symbolic staging-ground name (Hebrew, Mount Megiddo) for the final gathering of opposition to God (16:16). Not necessarily a literal future geographic battlefield; has entered popular global usage as a byword for catastrophic war and may carry imported connotations beyond the text’s own meaning.
Lion Of Judah
Approved rendering: یہوداہٕ قبیلَس ہنٛد شیر
Transliteration: Yahūdāh qabīlas hind sher
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Messianic Prophecy
Original: ὁ λέων ὁ ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς Ἰούδα
Category: Christology
A Messianic title from Genesis 49:9-10 (5:5), reinforcing Fulfillment of Prophecy; paired with Root of David in the same verse.
Worthy
Approved rendering: لائق
Transliteration: lā’iq
Doctrine: Worship of the Lamb
Original: ἄξιος
Category: Worship
“Of due weight/deserving”; only the Lamb is found worthy to open the scroll (5:2-5,9,12) — a claim of unique authority and unique redemptive accomplishment; no other figure, human or angelic, is found worthy anywhere in the vision.
Crown Of Life
Approved rendering: زندگیٕ ہنٛز تاج
Transliteration: zindagī hanz tāj
Doctrine: Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
Original: ὁ στέφανος τῆς ζωῆς
Category: Perseverance
A victor’s wreath (athletic/military image, not a royal diadem), reward of persevering faithfulness unto death (2:10, 3:11). Distinguish from a royal diadem, worn ironically by the Beast and Dragon (12:3, 13:1) — worth preserving as a deliberate contrast in teaching notes.
Elders
Approved rendering: بزرگ
Transliteration: buzurg
Doctrine: Worship of the Lamb
Rejected alternatives: ولی (rejected, per baseline’s saints entry caution)
Original: πρεσβύτεροι
Category: Worship
The twenty-four elders enthroned around God’s throne, crowned, casting their crowns before him (4:4,10, 5:8-14, 11:16, 14:3, 19:4). بزرگ also names a revered Sufi spiritual master/pir in the Rishi tradition; must clarify these are heavenly worshipers surrendering all honor to God alone, not analogous venerated human teachers.
Abyss
Approved rendering: پاتال / گہرہٕ کھڈ
Transliteration: pātāl / gahrī khadd
Doctrine: The Sovereignty of God over History
Original: ἡ ἄβυσσος
Category: Sovereignty of God over History
The netherworld prison of demonic powers, under God’s sovereign control — evil forces act only when ‘released’ (9:1-3, 11:7, 17:8, 20:1-3). پاتال carries netherworld connotations in wider Indian cosmology; use with a clarifying gloss so it is understood as confinement under God’s sovereign authority, not an independent cosmological realm of equal ultimacy.
Eternal Gospel
Approved rendering: ہمیشہ رہنہٕ والہ انجیل
Transliteration: hamēshah rahan wāli Injīl
Doctrine: Universal Scope of the Gospel, Consummated
Original: εὐαγγέλιον αἰώνιον
Category: Salvation
The unchanging, final good news proclaimed to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people (14:6). Reuses باseline انجیل exactly; reinforce its existing High-risk caution that this is shared Quranic vocabulary whose actual New Testament content must not be assumed by default.
Faithful And True
Approved rendering: وفادار تہٕ رٲست
Transliteration: wafādār tay rāst
Doctrine: Deity of Christ in Revelation
Original: πιστὸς καὶ ἀληθινός
Category: Christology
A title of God’s words (21:5) and of the returning Christ himself (19:11), meaning trustworthy and genuine. Shares its root with باseline ایمان (faith) and راستبازی (righteousness); reinforces Christ’s reliability and deity together.
Trumpets Bowls
Approved rendering: نرسِنگہٕ / جامہٕ
Transliteration: nafīrī / jāma
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: σάλπιγγες / φιάλαι
Category: Judgment
Structuring devices for the two great judgment sequences (ch. 8-9, 15-16), echoing the trumpet at Sinai and Jericho. Caution against over-literalizing as a modern-event checklist or coded prediction of specific technology or warfare.
Mystery Of God
Approved rendering: خُدایُک رازہٕ
Transliteration: Khudāyuk rāza
Doctrine: The Sovereignty of God over History
Original: τὸ μυστήριον τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Sovereignty of God over History
God’s hidden redemptive plan, nearing final disclosure (10:7). راز is also live vocabulary in Sufi mystical usage for hidden divine truth (asrar); note this is objective, revealed, Scripture-bound mystery, not esoteric truth accessible only to spiritual initiates.
Come Out Of Her
Approved rendering: میانہٕ لوکو، تِمی منز نہٕ راوٕو
Transliteration: miyānah lūkō, timi manz na rāwō
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: Ἐξέλθατε ὁ λαός μου ἐξ αὐτῆς
Category: Church
A call to separation from Babylon’s corrupt system (18:4). Ties to the baseline’s Separation-unto-God’s-Service doctrine; teach as ethical/spiritual separation from a corrupt system’s sins, not a call to social withdrawal from ordinary neighborly life among people of other faiths.
Song Of Moses And Lamb
Approved rendering: موسیٰ ہنٛد نغمہٕ تہٕ بَرَّٕہ ہنٛد نغمہٕ
Transliteration: Mūsā hand naghma tay Barrah hand naghma
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Messianic Prophecy
Original: ᾠδὴ τοῦ Μωϋσέως … καὶ ᾠδὴ τοῦ ἀρνίου
Category: Worship
A united song tying the Exodus deliverance typologically to the Lamb’s final deliverance (15:3-4). Old and New Covenant redemption united in one act of worship; ensure Old Testament narrative literacy is supported, per the baseline’s stated low-literacy assumption.
Apokalypsis Revelation
Approved rendering: مکاشفہ
Transliteration: mukāshafah
Doctrine: Inspiration and Inviolability of Scripture
Original: ἀποκάλυψις
Category: Scripture
An uncovering/unveiling of hidden divine truth, the genre-defining term of the book’s opening verse (1:1). Genuinely resonant with Sufi mystical ‘kashf’ vocabulary; must be distinguished from a mystic’s subjective inner experience — this unveiling is objective, authoritative, and given by Christ specifically.
Lords Day
Approved rendering: خُداوندُک دؔوہ
Transliteration: Khudāwanduk dōh
Doctrine: The Return and Reign of Christ
Original: ἡ κυριακὴ ἡμέρα
Category: Worship
The first day of the week, set apart for Christian worship in honor of the risen Lord (1:10). Clarify this is not a claim about the calendar being ritually ‘sacred’ in the sense of Islamic Jumu’ah, but about whose Lordship the day commemorates.
Qualitative New
Approved rendering: نَو
Transliteration: nav
Doctrine: The New Heaven and New Earth
Original: καινός
Category: Eschatology
“New in kind/quality,” not merely in time of origin; used of the new heaven, new earth, new Jerusalem, and God’s climactic ‘I am making all things new’ (21:1-2,5). Must be distinguished from a word implying mere temporal succession; gloss with an explicit ‘made new, not made again’ teaching note wherever 21:1-5 is in view.
Sea Symbolic
Approved rendering: سمندر
Transliteration: samundar
Doctrine: Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation
Original: ἡ θάλασσα
Category: Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation
Throughout Revelation, the sea symbolizes chaos, the abode of the Beast (13:1), and death (20:13); its final abolition (21:1) signals the end of chaos and threat. Flag so ‘the sea was no more’ is not read as a flat, literal ecological prediction about geography.
Death As Enemy
Approved rendering: موت
Transliteration: möt
Doctrine: Assurance of God’s Final Victory over Evil
Original: ὁ θάνατος
Category: Eschatology
Death personified as a hostile power, finally and permanently abolished (20:14, 21:4). Must be distinguished from the Islamic view of death as an appointed, natural transition governed by qadar with no personified ‘enemy’ status; Revelation presents death as a hostile power finally defeated, not merely a neutral appointed event.
Inherit
Approved rendering: وارث بنُن
Transliteration: wāris banun
Doctrine: Assurance of God’s Final Victory over Evil
Original: κληρονομέω
Category: Salvation
To receive full, permanent inheritance rights (21:7), tied directly to the baseline’s adoption doctrine (خدا ہند فرزند بنٲوُن); reinforces full inheritance rights rather than a partial or provisional grant.
Idolater
Approved rendering: بُت پرست
Transliteration: but-parast
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: εἰδωλολάτρης
Category: Sin
One who worships idols in place of the true God (21:8, 22:15). A point of contact with the strong Islamic condemnation of idolatry (shirk), but requires sensitive handling with Kashmiri Pandit readers so it addresses the biblical category (worship displacing the true God), not a blanket polemic against all Hindu ritual practice.
Sorcerer
Approved rendering: جادوگر
Transliteration: jādūgar
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: φαρμακός
Category: Sin
One who practices sorcery/occult ritual (21:8, 22:15). Must be handled to condemn deliberate occult/magical practice specifically, without appearing to blanket-condemn either Sufi shrine culture (amulets, ta’wiz) or folk-devotional practice broadly.
Faithless Unbeliever
Approved rendering: بے ایمان
Transliteration: be-īmān
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: ἄπιστος
Category: Faith
One lacking personal trust in Christ, listed among the excluded in the lake of fire (21:8). Built on baseline ایمان with a negating prefix; must be read against the baseline’s High-risk faith entry — this names the absence of personal trust in Christ specifically, not merely generic religious unbelief.
Nations Walk By Light
Approved rendering: غیر-قوم اُس رِوشنی منز پَنٛٹھ ہیچھِن
Transliteration: ghair-qaum us rōshnī manz panth hēchhin
Doctrine: Universal Scope of the Gospel, Consummated
Original: περιπατήσουσιν τὰ ἔθνη διὰ τοῦ φωτὸς αὐτῆς
Category: Church
The nations walking by the New Jerusalem’s light, kings bringing their glory into it (21:24-26). Reuses baseline غیر-قوم; the consummation of the Universal Scope of the Gospel doctrine already High-risk in the baseline.
Tree Of Life No Curse
Approved rendering: زندگیٕ ہنٛد رُکھ / کہین لعنت نہٕ رٔزِہ
Transliteration: zindagī hand rukh / kahin la’nat na rozih
Doctrine: The New Heaven and New Earth
Original: τὸ ξύλον τῆς ζωῆς … οὐκ ἔσται ἔτι κατάθεμα
Category: Eschatology
The tree of life and the final removal of the curse (22:2-3), reversing Genesis 3’s expulsion and curse. Ties Revelation’s ending directly back to Genesis’s beginning — the whole Bible’s narrative arc completed, healing extended even to the nations.
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: شکر
Transliteration: shukur
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained for cross-curriculum consistency.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: رفاقت
Transliteration: rifāqat
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained for cross-curriculum consistency.
David
Approved rendering: داؤد
Transliteration: Dā’ūd
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Revelation nuance: both ‘seed of David’ (baseline) and the new ‘Root of David’ paradox (5:5, 22:16) apply to this same proper name — teach the fuller paradox using Revelation’s own added phrase (see root_of_david below), not by expanding this entry.
Exhort
Approved rendering: حوصلہ دِنہ
Transliteration: ḥauslah dinah
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
[Inherited from Romans package, unchanged.] Retained for cross-curriculum consistency; the seven letters’ exhortation-refrains (ch. 2-3) draw on this same register.
Four Living Creatures
Approved rendering: چار زندٕ مخلوق
Transliteration: chār zinda makhlūq
Doctrine: Worship of the Lamb
Original: τέσσαρα ζῷα
Category: Worship
Angelic beings of highest rank surrounding God’s throne in continual worship, echoing Ezekiel 1 and Isaiah 6 (ch. 4,5,6,7,14,15,19). Use a term clearly distinct from the later hostile ‘Beast’ (θηρίον is a different Greek word); avoid any shared root that could blur the two categories.
Silence In Heaven
Approved rendering: آسمانَس منز خٲموشی
Transliteration: āsmānas manz khāmōshī
Doctrine: The Sovereignty of God over History
Original: σιγὴ ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ
Category: Sovereignty of God over History
A dramatic half-hour pause in heaven’s worship before the seventh seal’s judgments unfold (8:1). Minor dramatic device heightening the Sovereignty theme; no significant doctrinal risk on its own.
Little Scroll
Approved rendering: نانہٕ طومار
Transliteration: nāna tūmār
Doctrine: Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
Original: βιβλαρίδιον
Category: Perseverance
A small scroll John is told to eat, sweet then bitter (10:9-10). The prophetic call is sweet (God’s word) yet bitter (the cost of proclaiming it); minor image, low doctrinal risk on its own.
Seven Churches
Approved rendering: ست کلیسیا / ست چراغدان
Transliteration: sat kalīsiyā / sat charāghdān
Doctrine: Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
Original: ἑπτὰ ἐκκλησίαι / ἑπτὰ λυχνίαι
Category: Church
Seven concrete, named local congregations addressed as light-bearing lampstands (ch. 1-3). Reuses baseline کلیسیا; the calling to visible, faithful witness is the operative theological point, not the number seven itself.
Cowardly
Approved rendering: بزدل
Transliteration: buzdil
Doctrine: Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution
Original: δειλός
Category: Sin
Fearful, timid — those who deny Christ under pressure rather than persevere (21:8). The negative counterpart to the overcomer.
Murderer
Approved rendering: قاتل
Transliteration: qātil
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: φονεύς
Category: Sin
One who commits murder (21:8, 22:15). Standard vocabulary; no significant doctrinal risk.
Sexually Immoral
Approved rendering: زناکار
Transliteration: zanākār
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: πόρνος
Category: Sin
One who engages in sexual immorality (21:8, 22:15). Standard vocabulary; no significant doctrinal risk.
Liar
Approved rendering: جھوٹھہٕ
Transliteration: jhūṭha
Doctrine: Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints
Original: ψευδής
Category: Sin
One who deals in falsehood (21:8, 21:27, 22:15). Standard vocabulary; no significant doctrinal risk.
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