Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- Aracılık
- Transliteration
- ah-rah-juh-LUHK
- Rejected alternatives
- şefaat (Islamic intercession, associated with Muhammad's role on Judgment Day)
Intercession
Prayer on behalf of others, or Christ’s/the Spirit’s mediating work. Şefaat specifically names the Islamic doctrine of Muhammad’s future intercession for his community on Judgment Day; using it for Christ’s intercession risks presenting Christ as filling a Muhammad-shaped role rather than his own unique mediatorial one.
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