No Compulsion in Religion

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In the academic article No Compulsion in Religion’Q2.256 in medieval and modern interpretation by Dr. Patricia Crone explains about the different interpretation of the famous verse in Surah 2:256 “There is no compulsion in religion.” This article goes on to explain an incredible quantity of research in primary sources written in Arabic and other languages from the early Middle Ages to the current century. These interpretations had great impact in the history of Islam, which helped it changed into what it is today, even though some of the Muslims are still uninformed of the different past clarification this verse went through.
The verse Surah 2:256 “There is no compulsion in religion,” for me it had two different versions, one that was private and the other one taking into the explanation the Muslim’s belief. The first interpretation that I came up with was they should not force anyone to become Muslim religion because religion is a free will for anyone to choose; therefore, everyone has a right to choose whether they want to believe or not. In addition, there is no point in forcing anyone into a religion because if they do not believe it in their hearts, they would have no interest and no faith in it. Forcing someone to believe would just developed problems and make non-believers behave like pretenders, and this is not what religion is about in the world. My next interpretations has to do more with Muslim’s belief that Allah is an all-influential god, who sees it all, and even indicates who is to believe and who does not to believe. Therefore, this verse can be explained as god choosing people to believe freely on their own determination and those who are not chosen, basically do not believe, but that is also their own choice. ...

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Moreover, analysis these different interpretations of the verse have given me a new notion and viewpoint on the text. Therefore, I came up with the new notion that people should not be ever force to believe in religion in which they do not want too, under any circumstances. In addition, I agree that we as humans can be convince to believe externally, but it could be hard to convince them internally, which gives no excuse to pursue them to believe in the religion. According to the one the verses in the Quran says, “God does not compel people to believe in him because people have free will.” In other words, it would be that if God does not constrain people to believe in him, we have no right to force someone else to believe in our beliefs. Doing this will make us go against God because God is the one who we cannot encounter or exceed.

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