Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- Tanrı'nın seçimi
- Transliteration
- tahn-RUH-nuhn seh-chee-MEE
- Rejected alternatives
- kader (fate/predestination in the qadar sense), kısmet
Election
God’s sovereign, personal choice of individuals for salvation. Kader carries strong Islamic qadar (divine decree) connotations that read as impersonal, deterministic fate rather than a personal, relational choosing; kısmet similarly implies fortune/luck. Tanrı’nın seçimi keeps the relational, purposive sense.
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