Core Glossary
Core Glossary — Matthew (English → Urdu)
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- Status: REUSED — term already fixed in the baseline
translation_memory.json; rendering MUST NOT change. - Status: NEW — term newly identified in this Matthew analysis; proposed rendering requires theologian sign-off before entering
translation_memory.jsonin Phase 2. - Risk tiers follow the baseline
doctrine_risk_registry.jsondefinitions exactly: Critical / High / Medium / Low. - Doctrine column maps each term to one of the nine curriculum doctrines listed in the curriculum parameters, or to a baseline doctrine category where the term primarily extends existing baseline material.
1. The Kingdom of Heaven
| Term (EN) | Greek / Translit. | Urdu Rendering | Status | Risk | Key Passages | Risk Note (brief) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingdom of Heaven | βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν / basileia tōn ouranōn | آسمان کی بادشاہی | NEW | High | 4:17; 5:3,10; 13; throughout | Must be taught as synonymous with baseline’s خدا کی بادشاہی; “heaven” is reverential circumlocution, not a spatial/afterlife term; distinguish from khilāfat-style political kingdom and from jannah (paradise-as-afterlife). |
| Kingdom of God | βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ | خدا کی بادشاہی | REUSED | Medium | 12:28; 19:24; 21:31,43 | Baseline entry; identical referent to Kingdom of Heaven within Matthew. |
| Mysteries of the kingdom | τὰ μυστήρια τῆς βασιλείας | آسمان کی بادشاہی کے بھید | NEW | Medium | 13:11 | بھید ≠ esoteric Sufi kashf/gnosis; revealed truth open to faith, not elite initiation. |
| Kingdom at hand | ἤγγικεν ἡ βασιλεία | بادشاہی نزدیک ہے | NEW | Medium | 3:2; 4:17; 10:7 | Present-and-coming reign breaking into history now, not solely future. |
| Keys of the kingdom | αἱ κλεῖδες τῆς βασιλείας | آسمان کی بادشاہی کی کنجیاں | NEW | High | 16:19 | Invites (unhelpful) comparison to fatwā-issuing scholarly authority; clarify Christ-delegated, church-community authority instead. |
| End of the age | συντέλεια τοῦ αἰῶνος | دنیا کا خاتمہ / زمانے کا اختتام | NEW | High | 13:39-40,49; 24:3; 28:20 | Genuine shared ground with qiyāmat as a coming reality; diverges on agent/criterion of judgment (Christ as judge). |
2. Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
| Term (EN) | Greek / Translit. | Urdu Rendering | Status | Risk | Key Passages | Risk Note (brief) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Messiah / Christ | Χριστός | مسیح | REUSED | Critical | 1:1,16-17; 16:16; 26:63 | Baseline entry; shared Qur’anic title (al-Masīḥ) without OT fulfillment content, sonship, or atoning death. |
| Son of David | υἱὸς Δαυίδ | داؤد کا بیٹا | NEW | Critical | 1:1; 9:27; 15:22; 20:30-31; 21:9,15; 22:41-45 | Distinct from خدا کا بیٹا; keep terminologically separate — royal-messianic lineage claim, not deity claim in itself, though ch.22’s riddle links it to Lordship. |
| Son of David (physical descent) | σπέρμα Δαυίδ | داؤد کی نسل سے | REUSED | High | cf. baseline “seed_of_david” | Descriptive-lineage counterpart to the titular confession above. |
| Immanuel | Ἐμμανουήλ | عمانوایل (خدا ہمارے ساتھ) | NEW | Critical | 1:23 | Direct incarnational claim; mandatory pairing with baseline “incarnation” note. |
| Hosanna (Son of David) | ὡσαννά | ہوشعنا | NEW | Medium | 21:9,15 | Public crowd-wide messianic acclamation; sets up narrative irony with ch.27. |
| King of the Jews | βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων | یہودیوں کا بادشاہ | NEW | High | 27:11,29,37 | Inseparable from crucifixion context; royal-messianic claim at the cross itself. |
| Son of Man | υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου | انسان کا بیٹا | NEW | Critical | 8:20; 9:6; 12:8; 16:13,27-28; 24:27-44; 25:31; 26:64 | NEVER render ابنِ آدم (Qur’anic phrase meaning “humanity” generically, no messianic content); this term conceals Daniel 7’s exalted, dominion-receiving figure under an apparently humble idiom. |
| Christ, Son of the living God | ὁ Χριστὸς ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ζῶντος | مسیح، زندہ خدا کا بیٹا | Combined REUSED | Critical | 16:16 | Concentrates two baseline Critical entries (مسیح + خدا کا بیٹا) in one confession; mandatory joint theologian review. |
3. Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy
| Term (EN) | Greek / Translit. | Urdu Rendering | Status | Risk | Key Passages | Risk Note (brief) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fulfilled / fulfillment formula | πληρωθῇ (πληρόω) | پوری ہونا / پوری ہوئی | NEW | High | 1:22; 2:15,17,23; 4:14; 5:17; 8:17; 12:17; 13:35; 21:4; 26:54,56; 27:9 | Recurring ~17x; must be distinguished from Islamic prophetology’s reading of earlier prophets as anticipating a later, final prophet (Muhammad, khatam an-nabiyyin). |
| Fulfill the Law and Prophets | πληρῶσαι τὸν νόμον | شریعت کو پوری کرنا | NEW | Critical | 5:17 | Jesus claims authority to complete/fulfill, not merely transmit, the Law — collides with sharī’ah’s self-understanding as complete/fixed via Qur’an/hadith. |
| Sign of Jonah | σημεῖον Ἰωνᾶ | یونس کا نشان | NEW | Medium | 12:39-41 | Yunus is a recognized Qur’anic prophet — shared recognition; typological “three days” application is Matthew’s own point, not to be argued against Qur’anic material directly. |
| Prophet | προφήτης | نبی | REUSED | Low | throughout | Baseline entry. |
| Prophecy | προφητεία | پیشن گوئی | REUSED | Low | throughout | Baseline entry. |
4. The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching
| Term (EN) | Greek / Translit. | Urdu Rendering | Status | Risk | Key Passages | Risk Note (brief) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Authority | ἐξουσία | اختیار | NEW | High | 7:29; 8:9; 9:6,8; 21:23-27; 28:18 | Distinguish inherent/self-grounded authority (Jesus) from derived/consensus-grounded interpretive authority (muftī/fatwā model). |
| Taught | διδάσκω | تعلیم دینا | NEW | Low-Medium | 5:2; 7:29; 28:20 | Standard, safe vocabulary; risk resides in “authority,” not “taught.” |
| Tradition vs. commandment | παράδοσις / ἐντολή | روایت / حکم | NEW | High | 15:2-6 | روایت parallels riwāyāt/ḥadīth-transmission vocabulary; keep critique historically located to first-century oral law, not a general critique of received religious tradition. |
| Listen to him | ἀκούετε αὐτοῦ | اس کی سنو | NEW | High | 17:5 | Direct divine command elevating Jesus’ teaching above Moses/Elijah — superseding revelatory authority claim. |
| Scribes | γραμματεῖς | شریعت کے معلم (preferred) / فقیہ (flagged, avoid as default) | NEW | High | 5:20; 7:29; 23 | فقیہ is a direct cognate of Islamic fiqh scholarship; avoid implying commentary on Islamic religious scholars. |
| Pharisees | Φαρισαῖοι | فریسی | NEW | Medium | throughout, esp. 23 | Proper noun for historical sect; never let it function as stand-in criticism of a living community. |
5. Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
| Term (EN) | Greek / Translit. | Urdu Rendering | Status | Risk | Key Passages | Risk Note (brief) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Righteousness | δικαιοσύνη | راستبازی | REUSED | Critical | 5:6,10,20; 6:33 | Baseline entry; retain forensic, received-not-achieved sense even where Matthew’s ethical overtone is present. |
| Righteousness exceeding the scribes/Pharisees | περισσεύῃ ἡ δικαιοσύνη… πλεῖον | تمہاری راستبازی…سے زیادہ ہو | NEW | Critical | 5:20 | Teach as heart-level righteousness flowing from grace, not a higher score on the same merit system. |
| Antitheses (“You have heard… but I say”) | ἠκούσατε ὅτι ἐρρέθη… ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν | تم نے سنا ہے…لیکن میں تم سے کہتا ہوں | NEW | Critical | 5:21-48 | Jesus reinterprets Torah with personal authority; connects directly to entry 4 above (Authority of Teaching). |
| Perfect | τέλειος | کامل | NEW | Medium | 5:48 | Avoid resonance with al-insān al-kāmil (Sufi “perfected human” category); teach as complete, unstinting love. |
| Defiles | κοινοῖ | ناپاک کرنا | NEW | High | 15:11,18-20 | Relocates defilement from dietary/ritual to moral/internal; do not let this become a blanket critique of dietary law (ḥalāl/ḥarām), which is not this passage’s target. |
6. The Church and Church Discipline
| Term (EN) | Greek / Translit. | Urdu Rendering | Status | Risk | Key Passages | Risk Note (brief) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Church | ἐκκλησία | کلیسیا | REUSED | Medium (High in ch.16/18 context) | 16:18; 18:17 | Baseline entry; never مسجد or امت. |
| Build my church | οἰκοδομήσω τὴν ἐκκλησίαν | میں اپنی کلیسیا بناؤں گا | NEW | High | 16:18 | Founding text for Church doctrine; church as Christ’s own building project. |
| Keys of the kingdom | see Section 1 | |||||
| Bind and loose | δέω / λύω | باندھنا / کھولنا | NEW | High | 16:19; 18:18 | Parallels ḥarām/ḥalāl-declaring and fatwā-issuing function linguistically; content/source of authority differs (apostolic, church-exercised). |
| Church discipline procedure | ἐὰν δὲ παρακούσῃ… εἰπὲ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ | اگر نہ سنے…کلیسیا کو بتاؤ | NEW | High | 18:15-17 | Teach process (private-then-communal, restoration-focused) with pastoral care for social/safety cost within small minority congregations. |
| Gathered in my name | συνηγμένοι εἰς τὸ ἐμὸν ὄνομα | میرے نام پر جمع ہوں | NEW | Medium | 18:20 | Warm, relational; Christ’s promised presence with even a small gathered church. |
| Forgive / forgiveness | ἀφίημι / ἄφεσις | معاف کرنا / معافی | NEW | High | 6:12,14-15; 9:1-8; 18:21-35; 26:28 | Shared with maghfirah’s deeds-and-repentance framework; secured through Christ’s atonement here, not repentance-as-merit. |
| Seventy times seven | ἑβδομηκοντάκις ἑπτά | ستر بار ستر مرتبہ | NEW | Medium | 18:22 | Limitless forgiveness flowing from limitless forgiveness received; grace-shapes-ethics pattern. |
7. The Great Commission
| Term (EN) | Greek / Translit. | Urdu Rendering | Status | Risk | Key Passages | Risk Note (brief) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Make disciples of all nations | μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη | تمام قوموں کو شاگرد بناؤ | NEW | High | 28:19 | Use تمام قوموں (all nations), NOT baseline’s غیر قوموں (which specifically contrasts non-Jews vs. Israel) — this verse is fully universal in scope. |
| Trinitarian baptismal formula | εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος | باپ اور بیٹے اور روح القدس کے نام پر | NEW | Critical | 28:19 | SINGLE HIGHEST-PRIORITY ESCALATION ITEM in this Language Package: concentrates three baseline Critical entries (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) in one memorized formula. Preserve singular “name,” never pluralize. Mandatory theologian review, every occurrence. |
| Disciple | μαθητής | شاگرد | NEW | Low | throughout | Never مرید (imports Sufi pir-murid master-disciple institution). |
| Baptize | βαπτίζω | بپتسمہ دینا | NEW | High | 3:6,11,13-16; 28:19 | Distinguish one-time, identity-conferring rite from repeated Islamic ritual ablution (wuḍū/ghusl). |
| Teaching them to observe | διδάσκοντες αὐτοὺς τηρεῖν | ان کو حکموں پر عمل کرنا سکھانا | NEW | Medium | 28:20 | Ties Great Commission back to Authority of Teaching doctrine (5:17-20; 7:28-29). |
| I am with you always | Ἐγὼ μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν εἰμι… | میں ہمیشہ تمہارے ساتھ ہوں | NEW | High | 28:20 | Forms literary/theological bracket with Immanuel (1:23); make this connection explicit in teaching. |
| Mission (evangelism activity) | — | بشارت کی خدمت | REUSED | Medium | — | Baseline entry; never دعوت/تبلیغ. |
8. Judgment and the End of the Age
| Term (EN) | Greek / Translit. | Urdu Rendering | Status | Risk | Key Passages | Risk Note (brief) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gehenna / hell | γέεννα | جہنم / دوزخ | NEW | High | 5:22,29-30; 10:28; 18:9; 23:15,33; 25:41,46 | Genuine bridge word (shared with Qur’anic jahannam); mechanism/criterion of judgment (Christ-relationship) differs from mīzān deeds-weighing. |
| Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit | βλασφημία εἰς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον | روح القدس کی گستاخی | NEW | Critical | 12:31-32 | A DIFFERENT unforgivable-sin claim from Qur’anic shirk (Qur’an 4:48,116); do not conflate the two systems’ distinct unforgivable-sin categories. |
| Abomination of desolation | βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως | ویرانی کی مکروہ چیز | NEW | High | 24:15 | Layered near-term (AD 70) and eschatological fulfillment; avoid speculative identification with contemporary events/entities. |
| Coming of the Son of Man (parousia) | παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου | انسان کے بیٹے کی آمد | NEW | Critical | 24:27,37,39; 25:31 | Climactic Daniel-7 fulfillment; carries forward all “Son of Man” cautions above. |
| The elect | οἱ ἐκλεκτοί | برگزیدہ لوگ (خدا کا انتخاب سے) | REUSED (root) | High | 24:22,24,31 | Baseline “election” caution against drifting toward taqdīr applies. |
| Eternal punishment / eternal life | κόλασιν αἰώνιον / ζωὴν αἰώνιον | ابدی سزا / ابدی زندگی | NEW/REUSED | Critical | 25:46 | Never soften toward annihilation or universalism; criterion is relationship with Christ evidenced in love, not bare doctrinal formalism or bare moralism. |
| Sheep and goats | τὰ πρόβατα… τὰ ἐρίφια | بھیڑیں… بکریاں | NEW | High | 25:31-46 | ”Least of these” criterion is evidence of genuine faith, not a rival justification-by-works doctrine contradicting baseline soteriology. |
| Sabbath | σάββατον | سبت کا دن | NEW | Low-Medium | 12:1-14 | Standard term; theological point is Jesus’ authority over it. |
9. Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
| Term (EN) | Greek / Translit. | Urdu Rendering | Status | Risk | Key Passages | Risk Note (brief) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Take up one’s cross | ὁ λαμβάνων τὸν σταυρὸν αὐτοῦ | اپنی صلیب اٹھانا | REUSED (root) | Critical | 10:38; 16:24 | Full crucifixion-collision weight (Qur’an 4:157) PLUS personal-identity discipleship demand, parallel to Galatians “crucified_with_christ.” Never soften to generic “carry burdens.” |
| Lose life / find life | ἀπολέσει… εὑρήσει τὴν ψυχήν | اپنی جان کھونا / پانا | NEW | High | 10:39; 16:25 | Paradox of self-surrender; pair with persecution-risk pastoral cautions. |
| Follow | ἀκολουθέω | پیچھے چلنا / پیروی کرنا | NEW | Low | 4:20,22,25; throughout | Standard vocabulary. |
| Sword, not peace | μάχαιρα | تلوار | NEW | Medium | 10:34 | Metaphorical (household division), never literal violence; avoid false-parallel with jihad-sword imagery. |
| Easy yoke | ζυγός (positive sense) | جوا (بغیر “غلامی” کی صفت) | NEW | Medium | 11:29-30 | Positive counterpart to baseline’s yoke_of_slavery (غلامی کا جوا); keep the two senses of جوا terminologically distinct across books. |
| Ransom for many | λύτρον ἀντὶ πολλῶν | بہتوں کے بدلے اپنی جان دینا | NEW | Critical | 20:28 | DOUBLE COLLISION: (1) presupposes the crucifixion (Qur’an 4:157); (2) asserts substitutionary bearing of another’s penalty, separately denied by Qur’an 6:164/17:15/53:38. Never render with فدیہ (compensatory-payment logic, rejected per baseline “redemption” entry). |
| New covenant | καινὴ διαθήκη | نیا عہد | REUSED (root) | Critical | 26:28 | Combines covenant + crucifixion + substitutionary-atonement mechanism in one verse; mandatory theologian review. |
| Body / blood (Last Supper) | σῶμα / αἷμα | بدن / خون | NEW | High | 26:26-28 | Use بدن, NOT جسم (reserved for Galatians’ “sinful nature” sense) for σῶμα here. Clarify symbolic, covenantal sense to avoid literal-blood-consumption misunderstanding compounding Qur’anic blood-prohibition (5:3; 6:145). |
| Crucify | σταυρόω | صلیب / مصلوب | REUSED | Critical | 27:26-50 | Baseline entry; full narrative account requires mandatory theologian review throughout ch.27, never allegorized or rushed. |
| My God, my God, why have you forsaken me | Ἠλὶ Ἠλὶ, λεμὰ σαβαχθανί | اِیلی اِیلی، لَما شبقتنی / میرے خدا، میرے خدا، تُو نے مجھے کیوں چھوڑ دیا | NEW | Critical | 27:46 | Christ’s cry of dereliction; engages Trinity and atonement together; highest pastoral and theological delicacy. |
| Veil torn | τὸ καταπέτασμα ἐσχίσθη | ہیکل کا پردہ پھٹ گیا | NEW | Medium | 27:51 | Symbolizes new access to God; lower friction than the crucifixion event itself. |
| Raised (resurrection) | ἠγέρθη | جی اُٹھا (مُردوں میں سے) | REUSED | Critical | 28:6-7 | Baseline “resurrection” entry; retain the qualifying “from among the dead” phrase distinguishing Christ’s unique resurrection from general qiyāmat. |
| Worship (of Jesus) | προσκυνέω | پرستش کرنا | NEW | Critical | 2:2,8,11; 14:33; 28:9,17 | Reserved-for-Allah-alone سجدہ collision; every occurrence directed at Jesus is a deity-of-Christ claim requiring theologian review, especially the post-resurrection occurrences. |
| Transfigured | μετεμορφώθη | اس کی صورت بدل گئی | NEW | High | 17:2 | Reveals, not confers, Christ’s inherent glory (جلال); connects to baseline “glory” entry. |
| Cornerstone / rejected stone | λίθον… κεφαλὴν γωνίας | کونے کا پتھر | NEW | High | 21:42-43 | Teach as argument about specific leadership’s rejection of Jesus, not a categorical ethnic verdict; parallels baseline’s unity_of_jews_and_gentiles caution. |
Cross-Reference: Terms Reused Verbatim from the Baseline Romans/Galatians Translation Memory
The following baseline terms recur throughout Matthew with no change to their recorded rendering or risk tier: gospel (خوش خبری), grace (فضل), faith (ایمان), salvation (نجات), apostle (رسول), called/calling (بلایا گیا / بلاہٹ), holy (پاک), saints (مقدس لوگ), sanctification (تقدیس), adoption (لے پالک بنانا), resurrection (قیامت), lord (خداوند), son of God (خدا کا بیٹا), incarnation (مجسم ہونا), peace (صلح), thanksgiving (شکرگزاری), fellowship (رفاقت), church (کلیسیا), kingdom of God (خدا کی بادشاہی), law (شریعت), sin (گناہ), gentiles (غیر قوموں — used with the caveat noted at 28:19 above), glory (جلال), power of God (خدا کی قدرت), messiah (مسیح), prophet (نبی), prophecy (پیشن گوئی), covenant (عہد), election (خدا کا انتخاب), providence (خدا کی تدبیر), mission (بشارت کی خدمت), david (داؤد), israel (اسرائیل), jesus (یسوع), god (خدا), holy spirit (روح القدس), father (باپ), hypocrisy (ریاکاری), redemption (چھڑایا / چھٹکارا), cross/crucifixion (صلیب / مصلوب), flesh — Galatians sinful-nature sense only (جسم), fruit of the Spirit (روح کا پھل), eternal life (ابدی زندگی).
Phase 2 note: All “NEW” terms in this glossary require formal theologian sign-off and version-incrementing entry into translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json before any Matthew segment translation begins, per the Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md. The Matthew-specific additions to that requirements document (system prompt extensions, forbidden substitutions, and escalation rules) should be drafted as a companion deliverable in the next Phase 1 step.
Critical Risk Terms
Salvation
Approved rendering: نجات
Transliteration: najāt
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: مکتی
Original: σῴζω / σωτηρία
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Shared word across both scripture traditions with two different soteriological mechanisms. Matthew 1:21 (‘he shall save his people from their sins’) is the book’s own thesis statement and ties نجات explicitly to Christ’s name and atoning death (20:28; 26:28), requiring the same mandatory contrastive teaching as the baseline.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: قیامت
Transliteration: qiyāmat
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: پنر جنم
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἐγείρω
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Retain the mandatory qualifying phrase مُردوں میں سے جی اُٹھنا at Matthew 28:6-7 to distinguish Christ’s own already-accomplished, unique resurrection from the general end-times qiyāmat all humanity still awaits.
Lord
Approved rendering: خداوند
Transliteration: k͟hudāvand
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: مالک, آقا
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Applied to Jesus throughout Matthew (8:25; 14:30; 22:41-45); the Lord-of-David riddle (22:37-45) is Matthew’s own deity argument built on this term and must never be softened to آقا.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: خدا کا بیٹا
Transliteration: k͟hudā kā beṭā
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: ابن اللہ
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Every Matthean occurrence (3:17; 4:3,6; 8:29; 16:16; 17:5; 26:63-64; 27:54) requires the mandatory eternal-not-begotten annotation. Must be kept sharply distinct from the plural, adoptive sons_of_god_plural entry (5:9) and from the royal-lineage son_of_david entry.
Incarnation
Approved rendering: مجسم ہونا
Transliteration: mujassam honā
Doctrine: Incarnation
Rejected alternatives: اوتار
Original: ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο (theological category applied to Matt 1:18-23)
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Matthew’s own textual anchor is the virgin conception (1:18-23) and the name Immanuel; must always carry the mandatory acknowledgment that this claim is directly contested by Qur’an 112, not merely absent from it.
Messiah
Approved rendering: مسیح
Transliteration: masīḥ
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Matthew’s opening word (1:1) and Peter’s confession (16:16); shared Qur’anic title (al-Masīḥ, Qur’an 3:45) without Matthew’s OT-fulfillment content, sonship, or atoning death, which must be taught explicitly every occurrence.
Jesus
Approved rendering: یسوع
Transliteration: yasū’
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: عیسیٰ
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Given as the proper name at 1:21, 25. Use یسوع مسیح consistently; never bare عیسیٰ, which signals the Qur’anic prophet-Isa rather than Matthew’s full portrait.
God
Approved rendering: خدا
Transliteration: k͟hudā
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: اللہ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Addressed as Father throughout Matthew (esp. 6:9); خدا, never اللہ, per the established Khuda-tradition choice.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: روح القدس
Transliteration: rūḥ al-qudus
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Active in Christ’s conception (1:18, 20) and named in the baptismal formula (28:19); every occurrence requires the mandatory co-equal-divine-personhood note distinguishing it from the angel Jibreel identification in mainstream tafsir.
Cross Crucifixion
Approved rendering: صلیب / مصلوب
Transliteration: ṣalīb / maṣlūb
Doctrine: Crucified with Christ
Original: σταυρός / σταυρόω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Presupposes the historical death Qur’an 4:157 denies occurred; the full narrative account (Matthew 26:1-27:66) must never be allegorized, softened, or narratively rushed. See take_up_cross for the personal-identity discipleship extension.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: راستبازی
Transliteration: rāstbāzī
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: نیکی, تقویٰ
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Retains its forensic, received-not-achieved sense even where Matthew’s ethical overtone (5:6, 10, 20; 6:33) is present; the ‘exceeding’ comparative at 5:20 must never collapse this into a performance-based merit score.
Son Of David
Approved rendering: داؤد کا بیٹا
Transliteration: dā’ūd kā beṭā
Doctrine: Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
Original: υἱὸς Δαυίδ
Category: Christology
NEW. Matthew 1:1; 9:27; 15:22; 20:30-31; 21:9, 15; 22:41-45. A technical, royal-messianic title rooted in the Davidic covenant (2 Samuel 7), repeated as public address. Must be kept terminologically distinct from خدا کا بیٹا (Son of God): royal-messianic lineage, not eternal divine Sonship, though Matthew 22:41-45 deliberately argues for the connection between the two.
Immanuel
Approved rendering: عمانوایل (خدا ہمارے ساتھ)
Transliteration: imānwel (k͟hudā hamāre sāth)
Doctrine: The Incarnation (Immanuel)
Original: Ἐμμανουήλ (Hebrew עִמָּנוּ אֵל)
Category: Christology
NEW. Matthew 1:23, quoting Isaiah 7:14. ‘God with us,’ carrying the full weight of the baseline incarnation entry; forms a deliberate literary bracket with 28:20’s ‘I am with you always.’ Mandatory gloss at first occurrence.
Son Of Man
Approved rendering: انسان کا بیٹا
Transliteration: insān kā beṭā
Doctrine: The Son of Man as Exalted Judge
Rejected alternatives: ابنِ آدم (existing Qur’anic phrase, Qur’an 17:70, meaning humanity/children of Adam generically, with zero messianic content — NEVER use)
Original: ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
Category: Christology
NEW. Matthew 8:20; 9:6; 12:8; 16:13, 27-28; 24:27-44; 25:31; 26:64. Jesus’ preferred self-designation, concealing a Daniel 7:13-14 claim to exalted, dominion-receiving authority under an apparently humble idiom. Teach the Daniel 7 background explicitly at first (8:20) and climactic (24:30; 25:31; 26:64) occurrences.
Worship Of Christ
Approved rendering: پرستش کرنا
Transliteration: parastish karnā
Doctrine: Worship Rightly Offered to Christ
Rejected alternatives: جھکنا / محض تعظیم کرنا (mere respectful bowing — softens the worship claim)
Original: προσκυνέω
Category: Christology
NEW. Matthew 2:2, 8, 11; 14:33; 28:9, 17. سجدہ/پرستش-register vocabulary directed at Jesus is an implicit deity claim a Muslim reader recognizes as shirk-adjacent. Must not be softened; the text intends worship, especially post-resurrection. 14:33 and 16:16 concentrate this risk with خدا کا بیٹا and require joint review.
Fulfill The Law
Approved rendering: شریعت کو پوری کرنا
Transliteration: sharī’at ko pūrī karnā
Doctrine: Jesus’ Fulfillment and Authoritative Reinterpretation of the Law
Original: πληρῶσαι (τὸν νόμον)
Category: Covenant
NEW. Matthew 5:17-20. Jesus’ claim to complete and authoritatively reinterpret the Law in his own person collides with sharī’ah’s self-understanding as complete, final, and fixed through Qur’an and hadith. One of Matthew’s most Islam-adjacent claims; render with full personal-authority force intact.
Righteousness Exceeding
Approved rendering: تمہاری راستبازی…سے زیادہ ہو
Transliteration: tumhārī rāstbāzī…se ziyādah ho
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Original: περισσεύῃ ἡ δικαιοσύνη ὑμῶν πλεῖον τῶν γραμματέων καὶ Φαρισαίων
Category: Salvation
NEW, built on baseline راستبازی. Matthew 5:20. Must be taught as heart-level righteousness flowing from grace, never as a higher score on the scribes’ and Pharisees’ own external merit system.
Antitheses
Approved rendering: تم نے سنا ہے…لیکن میں تم سے کہتا ہوں
Transliteration: tum ne sunā hai…lekin maiṅ tum se kahtā hūṅ
Doctrine: Jesus’ Fulfillment and Authoritative Reinterpretation of the Law
Original: ἠκούσατε ὅτι ἐρρέθη… ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν
Category: Covenant
NEW. The fivefold pattern of Matthew 5:21-48 by which Jesus authoritatively reinterprets Torah; a personal-authority claim over revealed law with no parallel in Islamic prophetology’s treatment of Isa’s relationship to Torah.
Sons Of God Plural
Approved rendering: خدا کے بیٹے
Transliteration: k͟hudā ke beṭe
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ (contrast with believers’ adoptive sonship)
Original: υἱοὶ θεοῦ (plural)
Category: Salvation
NEW, uses the same root (بیٹا) as the baseline’s Critical, Christ-exclusive son_of_god entry but PLURAL, of believers, in an entirely different derivative/adoptive sense (Matthew 5:9, core passage; parallel 5:45). Every occurrence requires an explicit note that this sonship is never the same ontological status Christ’s unique Sonship claims.
Repentance
Approved rendering: توبہ
Transliteration: tawbah
Doctrine: Repentance and Baptism
Original: μετάνοια / μετανοέω
Category: Faith
NEW. Matthew 3:2; 4:17. توبہ is the precise, technical Islamic term for repentance (e.g. Qur’an 66:8’s ‘sincere repentance’), operative within the deeds-and-mercy framework. No natural alternative exists that Urdu readers would recognize as ‘repentance’ at all; every load-bearing occurrence requires explicit contrastive teaching that this repentance is response to the kingdom’s grace, not a merit-generating human act.
Trinitarian Baptismal Formula
Approved rendering: باپ اور بیٹے اور روح القدس کے نام پر
Transliteration: bāp aur beṭe aur rūḥ al-qudus ke nām par
Doctrine: The Great Commission
Rejected alternatives: pluralized ‘کے ناموں پر’ (in the names, plural) — would misrepresent Trinitarian unity as tritheism; NEVER use
Original: εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος
Category: God
NEW, built on three baseline Critical entries (باپ, خدا کا بیٹا root, روح القدس). SINGLE HIGHEST-PRIORITY ESCALATION ITEM in this Language Package. Matthew 28:19. εἰς τὸ ὄνομα is grammatically singular (‘the name’) though three persons are listed; preserve this singularity exactly. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.
Blasphemy Against Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: روح القدس کی گستاخی
Transliteration: rūḥ al-qudus kī gustāk͟hī
Doctrine: The Unforgivable Sin: Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit
Original: βλασφημία εἰς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον
Category: God
NEW, built on baseline روح القدس root. Matthew 12:31-32. A DIFFERENT unforgivable-sin claim from Islamic shirk (Qur’an 4:48, 116, already flagged Critical under son_of_god); never conflate the two distinct systems’ unforgivable-sin categories. Teach strictly on Matthew’s own terms.
Parousia Son Of Man
Approved rendering: انسان کے بیٹے کی آمد
Transliteration: insān ke beṭe kī āmad
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Rejected alternatives: ابنِ آدم کی آمد (same rejection as the son_of_man entry — NEVER use)
Original: ἡ παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
Category: Eschatology
NEW, built on son_of_man entry. Matthew 24:27, 37, 39; 25:31. The climactic, Daniel-7-fulfilling, visible, glory-attended return of Christ as judge of all humanity; carries forward every son_of_man caution.
Eternal Punishment
Approved rendering: ابدی سزا
Transliteration: abadī sazā
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Original: κόλασιν αἰώνιον
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Matthew 25:46, grammatically paralleled in duration with the righteous’ eternal life. Must never be softened toward implied annihilation or universal restoration, nor detached from its criterion (relationship with Christ evidenced in love).
Take Up Cross
Approved rendering: اپنی صلیب اٹھانا
Transliteration: apnī ṣalīb uṭhānā
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Rejected alternatives: عمومی مشکلات اٹھانا (a generic ‘carry your burdens’ idiom — loses the specific, historically loaded image of Roman crucifixion; NEVER use as substitute)
Original: ὁ λαμβάνων τὸν σταυρὸν αὐτοῦ
Category: Salvation
NEW, built on baseline صلیب root. Matthew 10:38; 16:24. Carries the full crucifixion-collision weight PLUS a personal-identity discipleship demand, structurally identical to the Galatians baseline’s crucified_with_christ doctrine.
Ransom For Many
Approved rendering: بہتوں کے بدلے اپنی جان دینا
Transliteration: bahutoṅ ke badle apnī jān denā
Doctrine: The Ransom: Substitutionary Atonement
Rejected alternatives: فدیہ (compensatory-payment logic, distinct from full substitution, per the baseline redemption entry — NEVER use)
Original: λύτρον ἀντὶ πολλῶν
Category: Salvation
NEW, built on baseline چھڑایا/چھٹکارا root. Matthew 20:28. DOUBLE COLLISION unique to this term: (1) presupposes the crucifixion Qur’an 4:157 denies; (2) separately asserts a substitutionary penalty-bearing mechanism explicitly rejected in principle by Qur’an 6:164; 17:15; 53:38. Requires its own dedicated theologian-review flag alongside, not folded into, the standing crucifixion rule.
New Covenant Matthean
Approved rendering: نیا عہد
Transliteration: na’ā ahd
Doctrine: The Ransom: Substitutionary Atonement
Original: καινὴ διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
NEW, built on baseline عہد root. Matthew 26:28. Combines the covenant category, the presupposed crucifixion, and the sacrificial-atonement mechanism (ransom_for_many logic) into a single sentence spoken by Jesus at the Last Supper. Mandatory theologian review.
My God Why Forsaken
Approved rendering: اِیلی اِیلی، لَما شبقتنی (میرے خدا، میرے خدا، تُو نے مجھے کیوں چھوڑ دیا)
Transliteration: Ēlī Ēlī, lamā shabaqtanī (mere k͟hudā, mere k͟hudā, tū ne mujhe kyoṅ chhoṛ diyā)
Doctrine: The Historicity of the Crucifixion
Original: Ἠλὶ Ἠλὶ, λεμὰ σαβαχθανί
Category: Christology
NEW. Matthew 27:46, quoting Psalm 22:1. Among the most theologically weighty and pastorally delicate utterances in the Gospel, engaging the crucifixion’s historicity and the mystery of the Trinity together; must never be smoothed into merely emotional despair detached from its atoning significance. Retain the Aramaic transliteration followed by the Urdu gloss, mirroring the source text’s own bilingual structure.
High Risk Terms
Gospel
Approved rendering: خوش خبری
Transliteration: khush khabrī
Doctrine: Gospel
Rejected alternatives: انجیل شریف کی تعلیم
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Established Urdu Christian Bible term for the proclaimed message of Christ, distinguished from انجیل used alone, which invokes the Islamic tahrif (corruption) claim about the Injil as a book. In Matthew specifically anchors ‘the gospel of the kingdom’ (4:23; 9:35; 24:14; 26:13).
Grace
Approved rendering: فضل
Transliteration: faz̤l
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: رحمت, احسان, کرم
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Unmerited divine favor apart from works; in Matthew embodied narratively in the vineyard workers’ equal wages (20:1-16) and the cancelled debt of the unforgiving servant (18:23-35). رحمت remains rejected as primary rendering since it operates within Islam’s deeds-and-mercy-at-judgment framework.
Faith
Approved rendering: ایمان
Transliteration: īmān
Doctrine: Faith
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Object of faith (Christ personally) must remain explicit at every Matthean occurrence, especially where Gentile faith (the centurion, 8:10; the Canaanite woman, 15:21-28) is contrasted favorably with unbelief ‘in Israel.‘
Called
Approved rendering: بلایا گیا
Transliteration: bulāyā gayā
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: دعوت دی گئی
Original: καλέω
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Used of the disciples’ call to follow (4:21) and the wedding-feast invitation (22:3-9, 14, ‘many are called, but few are chosen’); never رendered with دعوت (da’wah).
Calling
Approved rendering: بلاہٹ
Transliteration: bulāhaṭ
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: دعوت
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Noun form sharing its verb root with ‘called’; avoids دعوت for the same da’wah-conflation reason.
Holy
Approved rendering: پاک
Transliteration: pāk
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: طاہر
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Moral/relational set-apartness, not ritual-ablution purity (tahara); used in Matthew at ‘hallowed be your name’ (6:9) and ‘holy city’ (4:5; 27:53).
Saints
Approved rendering: مقدس لوگ
Transliteration: muqaddas log
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: ولی
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Corporate designation for all believers; never ولی (Sufi wali/shrine-veneration category).
Sanctification
Approved rendering: تقدیس
Transliteration: taqdīs
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: پاکیزگی
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. The Spirit’s ongoing work of making believers holy, conceptually present in the Sermon on the Mount’s call to heart-level righteousness exceeding external conformity.
Adoption
Approved rendering: لے پالک بنانا
Transliteration: le-pālak banānā
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Full son-status framed relationally, not mapped onto Islamic law’s lineage-adoption restrictions (Qur’an 33:4-5); underlies Matthew 5:9’s plural ‘sons of God’ (see sons_of_god_plural).
Law
Approved rendering: شریعت
Transliteration: sharī’at
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: توریت
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. The Mosaic Law/Torah, the subject of Jesus’ fulfillment claim (5:17-20) and the tradition-versus-commandment controversy (15:1-9); must not be heard as the broader Islamic sharī’ah concept when naming Mosaic Torah specifically.
Sin
Approved rendering: گناہ
Transliteration: gunāh
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Object of Jesus’ saving mission (1:21) and of forgiveness (9:2-6; 26:28).
Glory
Approved rendering: جلال
Transliteration: jalāl
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: δόξα
Category: God
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. God’s radiant majesty, revealed in Christ at the Transfiguration (17:2, 5) and at his future coming (16:27; 24:30; 25:31); the Transfiguration reveals, not confers, glory already inherently Christ’s own.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: خدا کی قدرت
Transliteration: k͟hudā kī qudrat
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Invoked at 19:26 (‘with God all things are possible’) against the rich young man’s assumption that eternal life is earned by a deed.
Covenant
Approved rendering: عہد
Transliteration: ahd
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: معاہدہ
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Specified as ‘new’ at the Last Supper (26:28); see new_covenant_matthean for the Critical-risk extension unique to that verse.
Election
Approved rendering: خدا کا انتخاب
Transliteration: k͟hudā kā intik͟hāb
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: تقدیر
Original: ἐκλεκτός / ἐκλέγομαι
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. ‘Many are called, but few are chosen’ (22:14) and the eschatological elect preserved through tribulation (24:22, 24, 31); must not drift toward تقدیر.
Providence
Approved rendering: خدا کی تدبیر
Transliteration: k͟hudā kī tadbīr
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: تقدیر
Original: (theological category; cf. Matt 10:29-31, ‘not one sparrow falls apart from your Father’)
Category: God
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Governs the reading of Judas’s betrayal occurring within, not despite, God’s plan (26:24); تدبیر preferred over تقدیر, must not collapse into fatalism.
Father
Approved rendering: باپ
Transliteration: bāp
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. God as personal Father, addressed corporately in the Lord’s Prayer (6:9, ‘Our Father’).
Redemption
Approved rendering: چھڑایا / چھٹکارا
Transliteration: chhuṛāyā / chhuṭkārā
Doctrine: The Law’s Purpose
Rejected alternatives: فدیہ
Original: λύτρωσις / λύτρον (root)
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Underlying category behind the ransom saying (20:28); never فدیہ. See ransom_for_many for the Critical-risk extension unique to Matthew.
Flesh
Approved rendering: جسم
Transliteration: jism
Doctrine: Flesh versus Spirit
Rejected alternatives: نفس
Original: σάρξ
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged FOR THE PAULINE SINFUL-NATURE SENSE ONLY. Matthew’s own ‘one flesh’ marriage text (19:5-6) uses σάρξ in its ordinary bodily sense and must instead be rendered بدن/تن (see one_flesh_marriage entry); do not use جسم there.
Fruit Of The Spirit
Approved rendering: روح کا پھل
Transliteration: rūḥ kā phal
Doctrine: Fruit of the Spirit
Rejected alternatives: روح کے پھل (plural, rejected)
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Singular ‘fruit’; guards against a deeds-merit reading adjacent to the works-of-the-law/mizan risk, relevant background for Matthew’s sheep_and_goats criterion (25:31-46).
Eternal Life
Approved rendering: ابدی زندگی
Transliteration: abadī zindagī
Doctrine: Bearing One Another’s Burdens
Original: ζωὴ αἰώνιος
Category: Eschatology
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. The rich young man’s question (19:16, 29) and the final judgment’s outcome for the righteous (25:46); 19:16-26 frames it as wrongly sought by a deed, corrected by ‘with God all things are possible.‘
Seed Of David
Approved rendering: داؤد کی نسل سے
Transliteration: dā’ūd kī nasl se
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: σπέρμα Δαυίδ (cf. υἱὸς Δαυίδ)
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Descriptive-lineage counterpart to the new son_of_david confessional title; the genealogical background (1:1-17) behind it.
Kingdom Of Heaven
Approved rendering: آسمان کی بادشاہی
Transliteration: āsmān kī bādshāhī
Doctrine: The Kingdom of Heaven
Rejected alternatives: خلافت / خلافتِ الٰہیہ (politically loaded caliphate concept), مُلک / سلطنت (loses reign/rule sense)
Original: βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν
Category: Kingdom
NEW. Matthew’s own preferred phrase (30+ occurrences, first at 3:2; 4:17; core to 5:3, 10). Must be taught as strictly synonymous with kingdom_of_god; ‘heaven’ is reverential circumlocution for God’s name, not a spatial location or synonym for jannah, and must be distinguished from a political khilāfat-style kingdom, especially given the density of royal-messianic titles surrounding this phrase throughout Matthew.
Keys Of The Kingdom
Approved rendering: آسمان کی بادشاہی کی کنجیاں
Transliteration: āsmān kī bādshāhī kī kunjiyāṅ
Doctrine: The Keys of the Kingdom
Original: αἱ κλεῖδες τῆς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν
Category: Kingdom
NEW. Matthew 16:19. Invites an unhelpful comparison to a muftī’s fatwā-issuing authority; must be clarified as specific, Christ-delegated, church-community-forming authority, not derived juristic authority over a fixed legal code. See bind_and_loose.
End Of The Age
Approved rendering: دنیا کا خاتمہ / زمانے کا اختتام
Transliteration: duniyā kā k͟hātmah / zamāne kā ik͟htitām
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Rejected alternatives: قیامت (reserved strictly for resurrection contexts per the baseline entry, must not blend senses)
Original: συντέλεια τοῦ αἰῶνος
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Matthew 13:39-40, 49; 24:3; 28:20. Genuine shared ground with qiyāmat as a coming reality; the divergence to teach explicitly is the agent and criterion of judgment — Matthew makes the Son of Man/Christ himself the returning judge.
Fulfillment Formula
Approved rendering: پوری ہونا / پوری ہوئی
Transliteration: pūrī honā / pūrī hū’ī
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: تعبیر / تشریح (interpretation — wrongly suggests a creative reading rather than a reported historical accomplishment)
Original: πληρωθῇ (from πληρόω)
Category: Covenant
NEW. Matthew’s signature formula, recurring roughly 17 times (1:22; 2:15,17,23; 4:14; 8:17; 12:17; 13:35; 21:4; 26:54,56; 27:9). Fix as invariant rendering; must be taught as fulfillment in Christ specifically, distinguished from Islamic prophetology’s pattern of reading earlier prophets as anticipating a later, final prophet (khatam an-nabiyyin, Qur’an 33:40) — reinforce at every occurrence, not only the first.
Authority
Approved rendering: اختیار
Transliteration: ik͟htiyār
Doctrine: The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching
Rejected alternatives: قوت / طاقت (loses the legitimacy/right-to-act sense), حکمرانی (blurs with kingdom/dominion vocabulary)
Original: ἐξουσία
Category: Christology
NEW. Matthew 7:29; 8:9; 9:6, 8; 21:23-27; 28:18. Also names a muftī’s derived, consensus-grounded interpretive authority; Matthew’s specific claim is that Jesus’ authority is inherent and self-grounded, ‘not as the scribes’ — this distinction must be explicit at every occurrence applied to Jesus, not only the first.
Tradition Vs Commandment
Approved rendering: روایت / حکم
Transliteration: riwāyat / ḥukm
Doctrine: The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching
Original: παράδοσις / ἐντολή
Category: Covenant
NEW. Matthew 15:2-6. روایت is shared, significant vocabulary (ḥadīth are themselves called riwāyāt); Jesus’ critique targets a specific first-century Jewish oral-legal tradition, never a general critique of received religious tradition or hadith-methodology as a category.
Scribes
Approved rendering: شریعت کے معلم
Transliteration: sharī’at ke mu’allim
Doctrine: The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching
Rejected alternatives: فقیہ (direct cognate of Islamic fiqh jurisprudence, names a specific Islamic legal scholar — avoid as default)
Original: γραμματεῖς
Category: Church
NEW. Matthew 5:20; 7:29; 23. First-century Jewish professional copyists/legal scholars; شریعت کے معلم is the recommended default to avoid implying commentary on Islamic religious scholarship.
Defiles
Approved rendering: ناپاک کرنا
Transliteration: nā-pāk karnā
Doctrine: Hypocrisy and Inward Purity
Original: κοινοῖ (from κοινόω)
Category: Sanctification
NEW, built on baseline پاک root. Matthew 15:11, 18-20. Relocates defilement from dietary/ritual to internal/moral categories; must never be taught as a blanket dismissal of dietary or purity practice (ḥalāl/ḥarām, ṭahāra), since Jesus addresses a specific Pharisaic hand-washing controversy.
Poor In Spirit
Approved rendering: روح کے مسکین
Transliteration: rūḥ ke miskīn
Doctrine: The Beatitudes and Kingdom Character
Rejected alternatives: فروتن دل (loses the poverty imagery central to the Greek)
Original: πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι
Category: Salvation
NEW. Matthew 5:3 (core passage). مسکین is a precise, technical Islamic term — one of the eight zakat-recipient categories (Qur’an 9:60). Every occurrence requires a clarifying note distinguishing spiritual destitution/dependence on God from an economic/zakat category.
Meek
Approved rendering: نرم دل
Transliteration: narm dil
Doctrine: The Beatitudes and Kingdom Character
Rejected alternatives: حلیم (one of the 99 names of Allah, al-Ḥalīm — a divine attribute-name, not primarily a human virtue-word; permitted only as a secondary gloss subject to reviewer judgment)
Original: πραΰς
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Matthew 5:5 (core passage). Strength held under control, not weakness; prefer نرم دل or فروتن as primary to avoid category-blur between divine attribute and human virtue.
Reward
Approved rendering: انعام
Transliteration: in’ām
Doctrine: The Beatitudes and Kingdom Character
Rejected alternatives: اجر (technical mīzān deeds-weighed reward term brought forth at the reckoning — permitted only case-by-case, e.g. where the text itself contrasts with merit, such as the vineyard-workers parable ch. 20, subject to theologian review)
Original: μισθός
Category: Salvation
NEW. Matthew 5:12 (core passage); 6:1-6; 25:14-30. Preserves the sense of gift-continuous-with-grace rather than commercial wages earned, resisting the mīzān deeds-at-judgment framework.
Baptize
Approved rendering: بپتسمہ دینا
Transliteration: baptismah denā
Doctrine: Repentance and Baptism
Original: βαπτίζω
Category: Church
NEW. Matthew 3:6, 11, 13-16; 28:19. Must be distinguished from Islamic ritual ablution (wuḍū’/ghusl) — a repeated, cleanliness-restoring ritual — since Christian baptism is a one-time, non-repeatable, identity-conferring rite of entry into the new-covenant community.
Build My Church
Approved rendering: میں اپنی کلیسیا بناؤں گا
Transliteration: maiṅ apnī kalīsiyā banā’ūṅ gā
Doctrine: The Founding of the Church
Original: οἰκοδομήσω τὴν ἐκκλησίαν
Category: Church
NEW, built on baseline کلیسیا. Matthew 16:18. Christ’s own founding declaration upon the apostolic confession; the church is Christ’s own building project, never مسجد or امت.
Bind And Loose
Approved rendering: باندھنا / کھولنا
Transliteration: bāndhnā / kholnā
Doctrine: The Keys of the Kingdom
Original: δέω / λύω
Category: Church
NEW. Matthew 16:19; 18:18. Rabbinic technical language for authoritative declarations of what is prohibited or permitted; closely parallel in linguistic FUNCTION (not content or source) to Islamic ḥarām/ḥalāl categories and fatwā-issuing authority — this structural-but-not-substantive resemblance must be named explicitly for reviewers.
Church Discipline Procedure
Approved rendering: اگر نہ سنے…کلیسیا کو بتاؤ
Transliteration: agar nah sune…kalīsiyā ko batā’o
Doctrine: Church Discipline
Original: ἐὰν δὲ παρακούσῃ αὐτῶν, εἰπὲ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ
Category: Church
NEW. Matthew 18:15-17. The private-then-communal escalation process must be taught with pastoral awareness of the real relational and safety stakes of public confrontation within a small, socially vulnerable Urdu-speaking Christian minority congregation; emphasize restoration over severity.
Forgive Forgiveness
Approved rendering: معاف کرنا / معافی
Transliteration: mu’āf karnā / mu’āfī
Doctrine: Forgiveness Among Believers
Original: ἀφίημι / ἄφεσις
Category: Church
NEW. Matthew 6:12, 14-15; 18:21-35. معافی is shared vocabulary with Islamic maghfirah, granted in response to sincere repentance within the deeds-weighed framework. Teach that Christian forgiveness is secured through Christ’s atoning work, not repentance-as-merit.
Make Disciples Of All Nations
Approved rendering: تمام قوموں کو شاگرد بناؤ
Transliteration: tamām qaumoṅ ko shāgird banā’o
Doctrine: The Great Commission
Rejected alternatives: غیر قوموں (baseline’s Jew/Gentile-contrast term — would wrongly narrow this verse’s deliberately universal, Israel-inclusive scope)
Original: μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη
Category: Church
NEW. Matthew 28:19. Given real legal and social sensitivity around proselytization already flagged in the baseline’s evangelism entry, this most explicit missionary mandate in the New Testament requires that same sensitivity applied with maximum care.
Gehenna Hell
Approved rendering: جہنم / دوزخ
Transliteration: jahannum / dozak͟h
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Original: γέεννα
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Matthew 5:22, 29-30; 10:28; 18:9; 23:15, 33; 25:41, 46. Genuine bridge word, real shared ground with Qur’anic jahannam on the existence of final judgment; the criterion (relationship to Christ, not mīzān deeds-weighing) must be taught explicitly wherever doctrinally load-bearing.
Abomination Of Desolation
Approved rendering: ویرانی کی مکروہ چیز
Transliteration: wīrānī kī makrūh chīz
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Original: τὸ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Matthew 24:15, echoing Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11. Layered near-term (AD 70) and eschatological fulfillment; avoid speculative identification with contemporary events or entities.
Sheep And Goats
Approved rendering: بھیڑیں… بکریاں
Transliteration: bheṛeṅ… bakriyāṅ
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Original: τὰ πρόβατα… τὰ ἐρίφια
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Matthew 25:32-33, 40, 45. The Son of Man’s final separation of humanity based on treatment of ‘the least of these’; teach as evidence of genuine relationship to Christ (fruit of real faith), never a separate works-based justification criterion contradicting the baseline’s central soteriology.
Lose Life Find Life
Approved rendering: اپنی جان کھونا / پانا
Transliteration: apnī jān khonā / pānā
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: ἀπολέσει τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ… εὑρήσει αὐτήν
Category: Salvation
NEW. Matthew 10:39; 16:25. The paradox of self-surrender for Christ’s sake; pair with persecution-risk pastoral cautions rather than presenting as an abstract spiritual principle.
Body And Blood
Approved rendering: بدن / خون
Transliteration: badan / k͟hūn
Doctrine: The Ransom: Substitutionary Atonement
Rejected alternatives: جسم (reserved exclusively for the Galatians sinful-nature sense — do NOT use for σῶμα in the Last Supper text)
Original: τὸ σῶμα… τὸ αἷμα
Category: Salvation
NEW. Matthew 26:26-28. Beyond the crucifixion-presupposition risk, ‘drink…this is my blood’ raises a distinct pastoral concern given the Islamic dietary prohibition on consuming blood (Qur’an 5:3; 6:145; 16:115); teaching must clarify this is symbolic, covenantal language, not literal blood consumption.
Cornerstone Rejected Stone
Approved rendering: کونے کا پتھر
Transliteration: kone kā pat’thar
Doctrine: The Rejected Stone Become Cornerstone
Original: λίθον ὃν ἀπεδοκίμασαν οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες… εἰς κεφαλὴν γωνίας
Category: Christology
NEW. Matthew 21:42, quoting Psalm 118:22-23. Must be taught strictly as Matthew’s argument about a specific first-century leadership’s rejection of Jesus, never as a categorical ethnic verdict, per the baseline’s unity_of_jews_and_gentiles caution.
King Of The Jews
Approved rendering: یہودیوں کا بادشاہ
Transliteration: yahūdiyoṅ kā bādshāh
Doctrine: The Historicity of the Crucifixion
Original: ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων
Category: Christology
NEW. Matthew 27:11, 29, 37. The titulus on the cross, intended by Pilate as mockery but functioning as an unwitting proclamation of truth; inseparable from the crucifixion context and the Son of David thread running through the book.
Transfigured
Approved rendering: اس کی صورت بدل گئی
Transliteration: us kī ṣūrat badal ga’ī
Doctrine: The Transfiguration: Revealed Glory
Original: μετεμορφώθη
Category: Christology
NEW, connects to baseline جلال (glory). Matthew 17:2. Must be taught as revealing, not conferring, glory already inherently Christ’s own, avoiding a reading that sounds like temporary elevation or a prophetic sign.
Medium Risk Terms
Apostle
Approved rendering: رسول
Transliteration: rasūl
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: نبی
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. First applied by name to the Twelve at 10:2; guard against the Quranic scripture-bearing-messenger-culminating-in-Muhammad paradigm.
Peace
Approved rendering: صلح
Transliteration: ṣulḥ
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: سلامتی
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. At Matthew 10:34 (‘I have not come to bring peace but a sword’) the term is used contrastively/ironically and must not be softened to suggest Jesus opposes peace as such.
Church
Approved rendering: کلیسیا
Transliteration: kalīsiyā
Doctrine: Church as God’s People
Rejected alternatives: مسجد, امت
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Risk elevates to High specifically at Matthew 16:18 (founding) and 18:17 (discipline) per the Matthew doctrine registry; never مسجد or امت.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: خدا کی بادشاہی
Transliteration: k͟hudā kī bādshāhī
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Used by Matthew itself only at 12:28; 19:24; 21:31, 43; must be taught as strictly synonymous with the Matthew-specific kingdom_of_heaven entry within this book.
Gentiles
Approved rendering: غیر قوموں
Transliteration: g͟hair qaumõ
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: کافر
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged, WITH a Matthew-specific caveat: at 28:19 (Great Commission) τὰ ἔθνη means ‘all nations/peoples’ inclusive of Israel, not the Jew/Gentile contrast this term otherwise names; use the new make_disciples_of_all_nations term (تمام قوموں) there instead. Never کافر.
Mission
Approved rendering: بشارت کی خدمت
Transliteration: bishārat kī k͟hidmat
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Rejected alternatives: دعوت, تبلیغ
Original: ἀποστέλλω / πορεύομαι
Category: Church
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Culminates in the Great Commission (28:19); never دعوت or تبلیغ.
Israel
Approved rendering: اسرائیل
Transliteration: isrā’īl
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: Ἰσραήλ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. The centurion’s faith is said to exceed anything ‘found in Israel’ (8:10).
Hypocrisy
Approved rendering: ریاکاری
Transliteration: riyākārī
Doctrine: Circumcision and the New Creation
Original: ὑπόκρισις / ὑποκριτής
Category: Sanctification
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package (originally from the Galatians Peter’s-table-withdrawal entry), unchanged. Organizing critique term for Matthew 23’s seven woes; must remain historically located and never a stand-in for criticism of any living community.
Mysteries Of The Kingdom
Approved rendering: آسمان کی بادشاہی کے بھید
Transliteration: āsmān kī bādshāhī ke bhed
Doctrine: Kingdom Parables and Hidden Revelation
Original: τὰ μυστήρια τῆς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν
Category: Kingdom
NEW. Matthew 13:11. بھید must not be heard as an esoteric, initiation-only Sufi kashf/gnosis category; kingdom truth is revealed to any who receive it in faith, not an elite secretly-transmitted attainment.
Virgin Birth
Approved rendering: کنواری
Transliteration: kunwārī
Doctrine: The Incarnation (Immanuel)
Original: παρθένος
Category: Christology
NEW. Matthew 1:23, 25. Unusually a point of substantial agreement rather than negation — the Qur’an itself affirms Mary’s virginity and Isa’s fatherless conception (Qur’an 19:20-21; 3:47). Note positively as common ground while flagging that Matthew’s significance (Immanuel) exceeds the Qur’anic parallel.
Sign Of Jonah
Approved rendering: یونس کا نشان
Transliteration: yūnus kā nishān
Doctrine: The Sign of Jonah
Original: σημεῖον Ἰωνᾶ
Category: Christology
NEW. Matthew 12:39-41. Yunus is a recognized Qur’anic prophet (Sūrat Yūnus) — genuine shared recognition. Teach the ‘three days’ typological application to Jesus’ burial/resurrection on Matthew’s own terms without contesting Qur’anic material directly.
Pharisees
Approved rendering: فریسی
Transliteration: farīsī
Doctrine: Hypocrisy and Inward Purity
Original: Φαρισαῖοι
Category: Church
NEW. Transliterated proper noun for a specific first-century Jewish sect, especially prominent in chapter 23; must remain historically located, never a stand-in for criticism of any living religious community or its scholars.
Perfect
Approved rendering: کامل
Transliteration: kāmil
Doctrine: Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Original: τέλειος
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Matthew 5:48. کامل carries resonance with the Islamic/Sufi honorific al-insān al-kāmil (‘the perfected human being,’ sometimes applied to Muhammad); teach as complete, unstinting, indiscriminate love (loving enemies), not an exalted spiritual station.
Gathered In My Name
Approved rendering: میرے نام پر جمع ہوں
Transliteration: mere nām par jama’ hoṅ
Doctrine: The Church as God’s New Covenant People
Original: συνηγμένοι εἰς τὸ ἐμὸν ὄνομα
Category: Church
NEW. Matthew 18:20. Christ’s promised presence with even the smallest gathered church; a warm, relationally comforting text appropriate for the baseline’s warmth-within-formal-register tone requirement.
Seventy Times Seven
Approved rendering: ستر بار ستر مرتبہ
Transliteration: sattar bār sattar martabah
Doctrine: Forgiveness Among Believers
Original: ἑβδομηκοντάκις ἑπτά
Category: Church
NEW. Matthew 18:22. Idiom for limitless, uncalculated forgiveness flowing from limitless forgiveness already received, a grace-shapes-ethics pattern reinforced by the unforgiving-servant parable (18:23-35).
Sword Not Peace
Approved rendering: تلوار
Transliteration: talwār
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: μάχαιρα
Category: Salvation
NEW. Matthew 10:34-37. Must be taught explicitly as metaphorical (household division caused by allegiance to Christ), never literal violence, and kept apart from جہاد (jihad) ‘sword’ associations.
Easy Yoke
Approved rendering: جوا (بغیر “غلامی” کی صفت)
Transliteration: juā (baġhair ‘ġhulāmī’ kī ṣifat)
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Rejected alternatives: غلامی کا جوا (reserved for the baseline’s negative Galatians ‘yoke of slavery’ sense — do not conflate)
Original: ζυγός (positive sense)
Category: Salvation
NEW, positive counterpart to the baseline’s Galatians yoke_of_slavery. Matthew 11:29-30. Keep terminologically distinct from that negative sense — the same noun جوا used in opposite theological senses across the two books.
Hosanna
Approved rendering: ہوشعنا
Transliteration: hosha’nā
Doctrine: Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
Original: ὡσαννά
Category: Christology
NEW. Matthew 21:9, 15. A transliterated Hebrew acclamation addressed to ‘the Son of David’ at the triumphal entry; a public, crowd-wide messianic acclamation setting up the irony of the crowds’ later abandonment of Jesus (ch. 27).
Talents
Approved rendering: سونے کی تھیلیاں
Transliteration: sone kī thailiyāṅ
Doctrine: Judgment and the End of the Age
Rejected alternatives: تلنت (direct transliteration — unrecognizable, loses the parable’s monetary-stakes sense)
Original: τάλαντα
Category: Eschatology
NEW. Matthew 25:14-30. A large unit of monetary weight; teaching must clarify the original monetary sense so the stewardship point (not merely ‘use your natural gifts’) is preserved.
One Flesh Marriage
Approved rendering: ایک تن
Transliteration: ek tan
Doctrine: Marriage and Divorce
Rejected alternatives: جسم (reserved exclusively for the Galatians sinful-nature sense — do NOT use here)
Original: μία σάρξ
Category: Sanctification
NEW. Matthew 19:5-6, quoting Genesis 2:24. Render as بدن/تن, not جسم, to avoid readers importing the unrelated negative Pauline connotation into this positive marital-union text.
Woe
Approved rendering: افسوس / ہلاکت ہے
Transliteration: afsos / halākat hai
Doctrine: Hypocrisy and Inward Purity
Original: οὐαί
Category: Church
NEW. Matthew 23:13-29, the seven woes. Standard prophetic-judgment idiom; must remain historically located, never license for contemporary religious polemic against any living community’s leadership.
Veil Torn
Approved rendering: ہیکل کا پردہ پھٹ گیا
Transliteration: haikal kā pardah phaṭ gayā
Doctrine: The Historicity of the Crucifixion
Original: τὸ καταπέτασμα τοῦ ναοῦ ἐσχίσθη
Category: Salvation
NEW. Matthew 27:51. A significant but comparatively lower-friction symbolic detail than the crucifixion event itself; connects to the baseline’s peace_with_god doctrine (new access to God through Christ’s death).
Mourn Comforted
Approved rendering: غمگین / تسلی پائیں گے
Transliteration: g͟hamgīn / tasallī pā’eṅ ge
Doctrine: The Beatitudes and Kingdom Character
Rejected alternatives: ماتم کرنا (ritualized public lamentation strongly associated with Shi’a Muharram processions — avoid the unrelated ritual overlay)
Original: πενθέω / παρακαλέω
Category: Salvation
NEW. Matthew 5:4 (core passage). Grief over sin and the world’s brokenness met with God’s own promised comfort; تسلی پائیں گے is distinct from the baseline’s exhort entry (admonition-leaning).
Low Risk Terms
Thanksgiving
Approved rendering: شکرگزاری
Transliteration: shukr-guzārī
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Standard, low-risk term, genuinely shared ground with the Quranic virtue of shukr.
Fellowship
Approved rendering: رفاقت
Transliteration: rifāqat
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Rejected alternatives: امت
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Never امت (ummah).
Prophet
Approved rendering: نبی
Transliteration: nabī
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Matthew places the persecuted disciples in continuity with the persecuted prophets (5:12) and repeatedly cites named prophets in fulfillment citations.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: پیشن گوئی
Transliteration: peshan go’ī
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. God-inspired declaration underlying Matthew’s fulfillment-formula citations.
David
Approved rendering: داؤد
Transliteration: dā’ūd
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant
Inherited from Romans/Galatians baseline package, unchanged. Source of the royal-messianic line invoked throughout Matthew’s genealogy and titles.
Disciple
Approved rendering: شاگرد
Transliteration: shāgird
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Rejected alternatives: مرید (Sufi pir-murid master-disciple institution — imports spiritual lineage, oath of allegiance, intercessory mediation; NEVER use)
Original: μαθητής
Category: Church
NEW. Matthew 5:1 (core passage); 28:19. A committed adherent following Christ’s whole way of life, not merely a student of information.
Follow
Approved rendering: پیچھے چلنا / پیروی کرنا
Transliteration: pīchhe chalnā / pairawī karnā
Doctrine: Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Original: ἀκολουθέω
Category: Church
NEW. Matthew 4:20, 22, 25; throughout. Standard vocabulary establishing the discipleship pattern developed fully in chs. 8-10, 16, 19.
Genesis Genealogy
Approved rendering: نسل نامہ
Transliteration: nasl nāmah
Doctrine: Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
Original: γένεσις
Category: Covenant
NEW. Matthew 1:1, ‘the book of the γένεσις of Jesus Christ,’ echoing Genesis 2:4 LXX and anchoring Jesus in verifiable Davidic and Abrahamic lineage.
Magi
Approved rendering: مجوسی / منجّم
Transliteration: majūsī / munajjim
Doctrine: The Universal Scope of the Gospel in Matthew
Original: μάγος / μάγοι
Category: Church
NEW. Matthew 2:1, 7, 16. Gentile foreign astrologer-priests, first to recognize and worship the newborn king. مجوسی also denotes Zoroastrians historically; منجّم more precisely conveys ‘astrologer.’ Fix one consistently in Phase 2.
Phylacteries
Approved rendering: تعویذ کی ڈبیاں
Transliteration: ta’wīẕ kī ḍibiyāṅ
Doctrine: Hypocrisy and Inward Purity
Original: φυλακτήρια
Category: Church
NEW. Matthew 23:5. Small boxes containing Scripture verses worn per Deuteronomy 6:8, criticized for ostentatious display, not the practice itself. تعویذ alone carries a loose folk-Islamic amulet association; the fuller phrase anchors the concept to the literal boxes.
Temptation
Approved rendering: آزمانا
Transliteration: āzmānā
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: πειράζω
Category: Christology
NEW. Matthew 4:1, 3, 7. Satan’s attempt to derail Jesus’ messianic obedience, testing the Sonship claim itself (‘If you are the Son of God…’); standard vocabulary, low collision risk on its own.
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