Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- Wiilka Ilaah
- Transliteration
- WEEL-kah ee-LAHH
- Rejected alternatives
- addoonka jecel ee Ilaah (God's beloved servant)
Son Of God
CRITICAL: Full phrase required, never softened to a servant euphemism. Somali culture places extraordinary weight on paternal lineage (abtirsiimo, the recitation of one’s genealogy), which sharpens both the confrontation with tawhid (Qur’an 112:3, ‘He neither begets nor is begotten’) and the seriousness with which a Somali reader will hear a father-son claim about God.