Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- Aabbe
- Transliteration
- AH-beh
- Rejected alternatives
- Abuure (Creator, as a substitute to avoid relational language)
Father
CRITICAL: Calling God ‘Father’ can register as implying literal offspring, which tawhid forbids, made more pointed still by the extraordinary weight Somali culture places on paternal lineage (abtirsiimo). Teach the relational, adoptive sense directly rather than retreating to the flatter Abuure.