Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- پاک روح
- Transliteration
- pāk rūḥ
- Rejected alternatives
- روح القدس (Ruh al-Qudus, an Arabic Quranic phrase that mainstream Islamic exegesis commonly identifies with the angel Gabriel, not a divine Person; never use interchangeably without explicit distinction)
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL: پاک روح must always be used in full. Quranic Arabic روح القدس (Ruh al-Qudus) appears in the Quran and is widely identified in mainstream Islamic exegesis with the angel Gabriel (Jibril) as the agent of revelation, not with a co-equal, co-eternal divine Person of the Trinity. This is not a minor translation nuance — it is a specific, well-known, already-answered theological category in Islamic thought, and this curriculum must state plainly that the biblical Holy Spirit is God himself indwelling believers, not an angelic messenger, rather than letting the shared phrase pass without comment.