Dunya

Etymology

The triliteral root dāl nūn wāw (د ن و) occurs in the Quran 133 times.

1. Compare with English «down» - "from a high to a low position, downwards, "

2. Compare with English «here below»

This world and in the Hereafter

(2:130) Who would abandon the creed of Abraham except one who fools himself? We have selected him in this world (Arab. الدُّنْيَا, l-dun'yā), and in the Hereafter, he is of the reformers.

(3:45) The Angels said, "O Mary, God gives good news of a word from Him. His name is the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary. Honorable in this world (Arab. الدُّنْيَا, l-dun'yā) and in the Hereafter, and from among those who are made close."

The lower heaven

(67:5) We have adorned the lower (Arab. الدُّنْيَا, l-dun'yā) heaven with lamps, and We made it with projectiles against the devils; and We prepared for them the retribution of the blazing fire.