Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- Keselamatan
- Transliteration
- keh-seh-lah-MAH-tahn
- Rejected alternatives
- masuk syurga (entering paradise, as the whole content)
Salvation
CRITICAL: Keselamatan shares its root with selamat, an extremely common everyday word (‘selamat pagi,’ good morning; ‘selamat datang,’ welcome), which risks the doctrine reading as a vague, generic well-wishing rather than a specific, present deliverance secured by Christ. Must not be diluted into a synonym for hoping to enter syurga [paradise], an outcome Islamic theology leaves undetermined until Judgment Day.