Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- Kuasa Allah
- Transliteration
- KOO-ah-sah ahl-LAHH
- Rejected alternatives
- kuasa ghaib (occult/supernatural power, associated with traditional Malay bomoh shamanic practice and animistic belief in semangat, life-force)
Power Of God
Kuasa Allah is the plain, doctrinally clean term for God’s sovereign power. Kuasa ghaib risks being heard through the lens of Malay folk-animist practice (bomoh healers, keris talismans, ilmu occult knowledge), a real substrate beneath official Islam in parts of Malay culture, rather than as the personal power of the biblical God.
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