Adoption

Note for reviewers: formal adoption in the Western legal sense (a child fully taking the adopting family’s lineage and name) is a notably sensitive topic in Islamic law, which restricts changing a child’s lineage-name and inheritance status (based on Qur’an 33:4-5); this curriculum’s use of adoption imagery for the believer’s standing before God should be framed relationally (full sonship, full inheritance in God’s family) rather than assumed to map onto any existing Islamic legal category, since none matches.