Compulsion Quote by Hamza Yusuf

“No compulsion is there in religion. Rectitude has become clear from error. (Q2:256) We can dub this the ‘no compulsion’ verse. It does not…

— Michael Alan Cook

“Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no…

— Huston Smith

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“It is these cancelled, earlier commands which our leaders use to deceive us about the violent history of Islam and the commands to violence…

— Peter Mcloughlin

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment.…

— Ali Sina

“Quite so: the choice, as laid out by Muhammad himself, is conversion, subjugation as dhimmis, or the sword.49 Qutb accordingly denies any contradiction between…

— Robert Spencer

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

— Deepak Chopra

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

— Oswald Chambers

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

— Shirin Ebadi

“In principle, all Islamic polities were (and are) required by Quranic injunction not to harm the dhimmi, to tolerate the Christians and Jews living…

— Maria Rosa Menocal

Quran says do not abuse others' gods, they will abuse Allah. But most people do not believe in this... they feel their way is…

— Asghar Ali Engineer