Compulsion

Submitted by Abdullah Reed (Indonesia), Mar 14, 2012 at 00:03

Peace be upon whom Allah wills..

Allah says: "There is no compulsion in religion". The topic has been resolved for Muslims, because we believe in the Qur'an, and so we know that there is no compulsion in religion (2:256).

For others, it may be something that you need to discuss at length and the reasons for discussion are various. For example, if you want to identify cases of compulsion in order to blame people for their errors, then you can.

However, it is clear that that endeavour has nothing to do with judging Muhammad as being a true messenger of God or not. If it was, then we would judge nations according to the works of their criminals, not according to their written rules of government.

Abdullah Reed

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