What is Deen?
Posted 07-12-2016 at 11:23 PM by Continuum
[B]What is Din دين ?[/B]
[B]Dīn[/B] (دين, also anglicized as Deen) is a Persian word, commonly associated with Zoroastrianism and Islam, but it is also used in Sikhism and Arab Christian worship. The term is loosely associated with religion, but in the Qur'an, it means the way of life in which righteous Muslims must adopt to comply with divine law (Quran and sunnah), or Shari'a, and to the divine judgment or recompense to which all humanity must inevitably face without intercessors before God.
[url]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C4%ABn[/url]
[B]What is Daena?[/B]
How the term Dīn came to be used in Islamic Arabia is uncertain, but its use in modern Persian may derive from the Zoroastrian concept of [B]Daena[/B], as it is called in the ancient Eastern Iranian Avestan language, which represents "insight" and "revelation", and from this "conscience" and "religion". Daena is the Eternal Law, which was revealed to humanity through the Mathra-Spenta ("Holy Words").
Alternately, Daena is considered to be a divinity, counted among the yazatas.
[url]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daena[/url]
[B]Daena and Dharma[/B]
Daena (din in modern Persian) is the eternal Law, whose order was revealed to humanity through the Mathra-Spenta ("Holy Words"). Daena has been used to mean religion, faith, law, even as a translation for the Hindu and Buddhist term Dharma, often interpreted as "duty" or social order, right conduct, or virtue. The metaphor of the 'path' of Daena is represented in Zoroastrianism by the muslin undershirt Sudra, the 'Good/Holy Path', and the 72-thread Kushti girdle, the "Pathfinder".
[url]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daena[/url]
[B]The Universal Path[/B]
From the above, it is noticeable that the concept of 'Din' is intended to be within the Universal Path which is called by different names, Din [Islam], Daena [Zoroastrianism], Dharma [Hinduism, Buddhism], The Way [Taoism], The Middle Way [Buddhism], the Straight Way [Islam 1:6].
[B]Islam's Narrow Claim[/B]
What I noted is Islam however claimed the Universal Path to be exclusive to Islam and straight-jacketed it closed minded it with Islamic terms and concepts.
[B]The Open Ended Path[/B]
On the other hand, the concept of Dharma [Hinduism, Buddhism], The Way [Taoism], The Middle Way [Buddhism], as a Universal Path is taken as fundamental but open to be expressed in various form in accordance to the circumstances.
[B]Why Generic and Universal?[/B]
Since ALL humans has the generic DNA at the fundamental level, there can only be one fundamental Universal Path that drives all other perspective of human life.
[B]Dīn[/B] (دين, also anglicized as Deen) is a Persian word, commonly associated with Zoroastrianism and Islam, but it is also used in Sikhism and Arab Christian worship. The term is loosely associated with religion, but in the Qur'an, it means the way of life in which righteous Muslims must adopt to comply with divine law (Quran and sunnah), or Shari'a, and to the divine judgment or recompense to which all humanity must inevitably face without intercessors before God.
[url]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C4%ABn[/url]
[B]What is Daena?[/B]
How the term Dīn came to be used in Islamic Arabia is uncertain, but its use in modern Persian may derive from the Zoroastrian concept of [B]Daena[/B], as it is called in the ancient Eastern Iranian Avestan language, which represents "insight" and "revelation", and from this "conscience" and "religion". Daena is the Eternal Law, which was revealed to humanity through the Mathra-Spenta ("Holy Words").
Alternately, Daena is considered to be a divinity, counted among the yazatas.
[url]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daena[/url]
[B]Daena and Dharma[/B]
Daena (din in modern Persian) is the eternal Law, whose order was revealed to humanity through the Mathra-Spenta ("Holy Words"). Daena has been used to mean religion, faith, law, even as a translation for the Hindu and Buddhist term Dharma, often interpreted as "duty" or social order, right conduct, or virtue. The metaphor of the 'path' of Daena is represented in Zoroastrianism by the muslin undershirt Sudra, the 'Good/Holy Path', and the 72-thread Kushti girdle, the "Pathfinder".
[url]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daena[/url]
[B]The Universal Path[/B]
From the above, it is noticeable that the concept of 'Din' is intended to be within the Universal Path which is called by different names, Din [Islam], Daena [Zoroastrianism], Dharma [Hinduism, Buddhism], The Way [Taoism], The Middle Way [Buddhism], the Straight Way [Islam 1:6].
[B]Islam's Narrow Claim[/B]
What I noted is Islam however claimed the Universal Path to be exclusive to Islam and straight-jacketed it closed minded it with Islamic terms and concepts.
[B]The Open Ended Path[/B]
On the other hand, the concept of Dharma [Hinduism, Buddhism], The Way [Taoism], The Middle Way [Buddhism], as a Universal Path is taken as fundamental but open to be expressed in various form in accordance to the circumstances.
[B]Why Generic and Universal?[/B]
Since ALL humans has the generic DNA at the fundamental level, there can only be one fundamental Universal Path that drives all other perspective of human life.
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