Thread: Can anybody define what is Deen and what is Mazhab?
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Old Tuesday, May 04, 2010
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Mahab is anything people or society follows based on their super natural and divine beliefs. So any set of rules, worships or any such act based on some super natural thinking or to please and get favour of some super natural person/creature object may be called religion. So religion or Mazhab is super set or vast. Deen is also a mazhab but the one and the only one true and revealed by Allah.

While deen is only one, the true path told and revealed by Allah ta'ala. The truth, the Haq, The deen can only be one and that is Islam.

Just to clear something, I think Christians also consider their religion as Deen. because according to them Christianity fulfills the requirements of Deen that is the only one revealed and told by Allah. The true Christianity was and is Islam, but after the coming of Muhammadi (PBUH) that Shriat is null and void now. And hence Islam, Shariat e Muhammadi is the final touch to deen.
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