Providence

God’s personal, purposive governance. NEVER ਕਿਸਮਤ (fate). Do not substitute ਹੁਕਮ (the Sikh doctrine of Waheguru’s impersonal Divine Order/Command, to which one submits) as the translation itself — the two concepts have a genuine point of contact worth teaching comparatively (see Comparative Theology), but ਹੁਕਮ is too liturgically specific to serve as the term for personal, Fatherly providence.