Passage

Romans 11

• Glossary Term

  Apostle

  Same collision with Muhammad's defining title as in Arabic and Persian, since Pashtuns are Sunni Muslims sharing the same shahada.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Apostleship

  Collides with Muhammad's rasul title as in Arabic and Persian, since Pashtuns are Sunni Muslims sharing the same shahada.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Effectual Calling

  Distinguish from folk qadar fatalism and from tribal-lineage-based notions of chosenness; this is God's specific redemptive purpose unto salvation through Christ.

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Election

  Beyond the shared Sunni qadar doctrine, Pashtun tribal culture's emphasis on lineage-based status and honor could color 'chosenness' as tied to bloodline or tribal prestige; Romans 9's election is God's free redemptive choice unrelated to lineage or tribal standing.

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  امتونه shares the loaded Ummah root; the descriptive غیر یهودیان ('non-Jews') avoids that association.

  ROM.11.17-24

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Pashtunwali's hospitality code (melmastia) treats gifts as reciprocity-creating; grace must be taught as a one-directional gift creating no repayment obligation.

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Pashtunwali's hospitality code (melmastia) treats gift-giving as reciprocity-creating - a gift typically obligates the receiver to repay in honor.

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Carries general pan-Islamic solidarity-based negative sentiment, though it is a less centrally charged first-order national issue in Afghanistan/Pakistan than in Iran or the Arab world given the absence of direct territorial proximity or conflict.

  ROM.11.17-24

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  CRITICAL: compound phrase required.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care; keep distinct from folk qadar fatalism.

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care; keep distinct from folk qadar fatalism.

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: the deeper risk is not a wrong word but a framework mismatch - Pashtun culture is a strong honor-shame culture, not a guilt-innocence culture.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: beyond the shared deeds-weighing framework, Pashtunwali's badal (revenge) code suggests wrongs are repaid by punishing the wrongdoer; the customary institution of nanawatai (accepted ritual submission in place of retaliation) is a real, positive cultural bridge for substitutionary atonement and should be invoked explicitly.

  ROM.11.11

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: beyond the shared Islamic deeds-weighing framework, Pashtunwali's badal (revenge) code operates on a cyclical debt-for-debt logic that could suggest a wrong must be repaid by punishing the wrongdoer directly.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Requires pastoral framing given general pan-Islamic solidarity-based sentiment about Israel, though less centrally politically charged in Afghanistan/Pakistan than in Iran or the Arab world.

  ROM.11.17-24