د ي نobedience, religion, recompense

الدين · al-dīn · the religion

• Met in: V1 p8 ¶14a: «ليتفقهوا في الدين», "to obtain understanding in the religion" (9:122); and V1 p7 ¶7c: «الذين يأكلون الدنيا بالدين», "those who eat the world by means of the religion". The phrase «الفقه في الدين» runs through V1 p5 and V1 p6.
• Dictionary form: دِين (corpus lemma, 92 times in the Quran). Not to be confused with دَيْن, "a debt" (Lane: "A debt; such as the price of a thing sold").
• Pattern: فِعْل (fiʿl).
• Meaning here: The religion: Islam as a way of life and of obedience to Allah. In «يوم الدين» (1:4) the same word means recompense: the Day of Judgement.

Ibn Faris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha, root دين, vol 2, p 319

الدال والياء والنون أصل واحد إليه يرجع فروعه كلها. وهو جنس من الانقياد، والذل. فالدين: الطاعة

One origin to which all its branches go back: a kind of yielding and humbling oneself. So al-dīn is obedience.

Urdu bridge

دین is Urdu for religion (دینی, religious; دیندار, devout). (to be confirmed)

Quran

101 words from this root (Quranic Arabic Corpus). Most common: دِين (religion; recompense) ×92, دَيْن (debt) ×5.

مَٰلِكِ يَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ

Sovereign of the Day of Recompense.

Surah Al-Faatiha (1), ayah 4 · Saheeh International

Why this ayah: «مَٰلِكِ يَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ», "Sovereign of the Day of Recompense": the same word, in its other sense, in the first sura.

In the Ihya

الدين: 799 times in the Ihya.