DIN

Din

' is an Arabic word which is commonly associated with Islam, but it is also used in Arab Christian worship. The term is sometimes translated as "religion", but as used in the Qur'an, it refers both to the path along which righteous Muslims travel in order to comply with divine law, or Shari'a, and to the divine judgment or recompense to which all humanity must inevitably face without intercessors before God. Thus, although secular Muslims would say that their practical interpretation of Dīn conforms to "religion" in the restricted sense of something that can be carried out in separation from other areas of life, both mainstream and ...

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din

Noun

  1. A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.

Verb

  1. To be filled with sound; to resound.
  2. To assail with loud noise.
  3. To repeat continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody.
    2003, His mother had dinned The Whole Duty of Man into him in early childhood — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 183)
  4. To make a din.


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