Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- Pengangkatan sebagai anak
- Transliteration
- peng-ahng-KAH-tahn seh-BAH-gai AH-nahk
- Rejected alternatives
- anak angkat (bare, without doctrinal qualifier)
Adoption
Anak angkat (adopted child) is a culturally comfortable, unstigmatized concept in Malay society, which gives this doctrine an unusually low-friction cultural bridge compared to most terms in this package. The remaining risk is theological rather than social: teaching material must still clarify this describes believers’ legal-relational status with full inheritance rights, not a claim that God has literal offspring, which tawhid forbids.