Arabic: dīn. See Notepad V-By sam
Arabic: dīn. See Notepad V- by sam NOTEPAD V Notepads comprise observations which informed parts of my process, and are included for interest. dīn — doctrine My treatment of this word is not radically different to how the Traditionalist treats it beyond the fact that I can provide a rational explanation for what it means which is consistent with the Qur’anic usage, and thereafter render it thus throughout. The Arabic root of dīn is d-y-n. The common meanings arising from this root relate to duty, loans, debt, and obligation. Traditionalist translations commonly duck and weave with regard to dīn depending on their requirements. At times they understand it to mean religion (under which rubric they assume the Islamic religion replete with its precepts and dogmas); at other times something different. In a very specific sense the meaning of dīn is that of religion — but only in the sense of that which a man truly believes, that...