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Dīn (Arabic: دين, romanized: Dīn, also anglicized as Deen) is an Arabic word with three general senses: judgment, custom, and religion. [1] It is used by both Muslims and Arab Christians. In Islamic terminology, the word refers to the way of life Muslims must adopt to comply with divine law, encompassing beliefs, character and deeds. [2]
Din has been used as both a surname and given name. Din in Arabic means "religion" or "way of life". Din is also a component of longer names, especially in Arabic. For example, Aladdin or ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn means "nobility of religion". See ad-Din for a list of these names. Notable people with the name include:
The Arabic spelling in its standard transliteration is al-Din. Due to the phonological rules involving the "sun letter" (حرف الشّمسيّة hurfu ’sh-Shamsiyyah), the Arabic letter د (dāl) is an assimilated letter of the Arabic definite article ال (al). This leads to the variant phonetic transliteration ad-Din.
Nur al-Din (Arabic: نور الدين, romanized: nūr ad-dīn) is a male Arabic given name, translating to "light of Faith", nūr meaning "light" and dīn meaning "religion". More recently, the name has also been used as a surname.
Mohyeddin (Persian:محیالدین, Arabic:محیی الدین) is a name of Islamic and Arabic origin, meaning "Reviver of Dīn". [1] [2] [3] It is used both as a name and as an honorific. Throughout history, this has been the name of many Islamic scholars, philosophers, and theologians.
Aladdin (Arabic: علاء الدين, commonly ʻAlāʼ ud-Dīn/ ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn) (various spellings and transliterations) is a male given name which means "nobility of faith" or "nobility of creed/religion".
Salah ad-Din (Arabic: صلاح الدين), Salahu’d-Din, Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn, Salah ed-Din and other variant spellings, is an Arabic name that means The Righteousness of the Faith. It commonly refers to An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (Arabic: صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب), known as Saladin , the first sultan of Egypt and ...
This is the literal meaning of "Religion" in both Hebrew and `Arabic. Both Judaism and Islaam - from Adam, to Abraham, to Moses, to Jesus, to Muhammad - has always maintained that both "Faith" ("Emunah" in Hebrew and Emaan in `Arabic), as well as "Works" or "Spiritual Practice" ("Deen" in both Hebrew and `Arabic alike), are necessary.