Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- Rasul
- Transliteration
- RAH-sool
- Rejected alternatives
- utusan (a lower-weight, purely secular 'envoy/messenger')
Apostle
HIGH: Established Alkitab usage retains Rasul (e.g. ‘Rasul Paulus’), even though rasul is also the specific Islamic category for a major prophet-messenger who receives new scripture (preeminently Muhammad, ‘Rasulullah’). This Language Package follows existing Malay Bible precedent rather than substituting a different word, but every use must be accompanied by explicit teaching that a New Testament apostle is a Spirit-authorized eyewitness to the risen Christ, not a scripture-bearing prophet in the Islamic sense.