Passage

Romans 5

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically; iman by Islamic default names confessional submission to Allah and his messengers as a system, not necessarily trust in a specific atoning mediator.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  ایمان (a core Arabic-derived Islamic theological term, one of the pillars of Islamic religious vocabulary) must have its object made explicit -- personal trust in Christ specifically -- since by Islamic default ایمان names confessional submission to Allah and his messengers as a system, not necessarily personal trust in a specific mediator's atoning work.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Must be distinguished from mainstream Islamic deeds-weighing mercy AND from Kashmir Shaivism's shaktipat (the awakening of divinity already dormant within a person) -- two distinct wrong frames, not one.

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  CRITICAL: فضل (an Arabic-derived term for favor/grace, attested in Islamic vocabulary) must be explicitly taught as unearned favor apart from human merit, guarding against two distinct wrong frames at once.

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Christ's real, full humanity must not be diluted into a temporary, non-dualistic self-manifestation of undivided consciousness as Trika philosophy might suggest.

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  In Romans 5:1, relational, judicial peace with God through justification; distinct both from Sufi fana-adjacent inner stillness and from the ordinary sense of political peace, which carries heavy, specific weight given the region's decades-long conflict and should be handled with particular sensitivity.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, judicial peace through justification; handle with sensitivity given how loaded the word 'peace' is in the context of the region's long-running conflict.

  ROM.5.1