HISTORY 16A Lecture 15: Islam
29 Aug 2016
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According to the second chapter of the quran, there is no compulsion in religion". This passage has been interpreted in many forms throughout the centuries. The most common form of interpretation is that people should not be coerced or forced to practice the religion and believe what the people of that religion believe. There should be a voluntary desire to embrace the religion and to want to practice it. An example of this is that the verse forbids jewish or. Christian parents who convert to islam to force their children to become muslims . This speaks in many different levels, since it suggests that even families and parents should not enforce beliefs into the children and that children have the freedom of choosing what they believe in. Another example is the verse means god does not compel people to believe in him because people have free will .
