A cikin misalan da aka bayar a sama, kalmar ta kasance da ma'anoni huɗu daban-daban da Larabawa suka yi amfani da ita kafin zuwan Musulunci. Ya rage a ba da wasu misalai na amfani da ita don nufin cikakkiyar hanyar rayuwa wadda mutum yake miƙa wuya da biyayya ga wanda yake ganin yana da iko na ƙarshe, yana daidaita halayensa bisa iyakoki, dokoki da ƙa'idodin da wannan halitta ta tsara, yana neman daraja, girmamawa da lada saboda hidima mai aminci daga gare shi, kuma yana tsoron wulakanci ko azaba da za ta biyo bayan duk wani rashin cika nasa. Watakila babu kalma a cikin harsunan kowace ƙasa ko al'umma - banda Musulmai - da za ta ƙunshi dukkan waɗannan abubuwa gaba ɗaya. Kalmar 'state' kamar yadda ake amfani da ita a zamaninmu tana kusantar ma'anar har zuwa wani mataki, amma ko wannan kalma tana rasa faɗin ma'anar da za ta sa ta yi daidai da kalmar Deen. Ga misalan amfani da deen a cikin Alƙur'ani a wannan ma'ana mai cikakken faɗi:

In the examples given above, the word has been used more or less in the four different senses in which the Arabs employed it before the advent of Islam. It remains to give a few examples of its use to mean a whole way of life in which a person gives his submission and obedience to someone whom he regards as having the ultimate authority, shapes his conduct according to the bounds and laws and rules prescribed by that being, looks to him for recognition honour, and reward for loyal service, and fears the disgrace or punishment that could follow any lack on his part. There is perhaps no word in the terminology of any country or people - other than Muslims - which would comprehensively embrace all these factors. The word ‘state’ as employed in our own day does, to some extent, approximate to the sense, but even this word lacks the far wider connotation which would bring it on a par with the word Deen. Examples of the Qur'ānic use of deen in this comprehensive sense are as follows: