دِينَreligion

Example sentences

• وَبَذَلَ دِينَهُ لِشَيْطَانِهِ ،

  And he abandoned his religion to his devil,

  دَيِّنُهُ — his religion. This noun ends in the attached '-hu' (his), a possessor pronoun glued to its tail, giving 'his religion'. The suffix points back to the man who is the topic of the whole passage rather than to any closer noun, so tracking that distant owner is part of reading the line correctly.

  From: Sincerity in Prophetic Knowledge →

• وَقَالَ إِنَّ دِينَ اللَّهِ ظَاهِرٌ

  And he said, "Indeed, the religion of God prevails."

  دِينَ — religion of. This noun is the topic seized by the emphasis particle before it, so it takes the object-style case that particle imposes. It also opens a possessive pair, 'the religion of...', with the next word as its owner, so it stays bare of 'the' and draws definiteness from that owner. Two grammar forces meet on this one word: the emphasis particle's case and the possessive chain.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →