In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Extract from QUR’AANIC
STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:
256. La ikraha fee alddeeni qad
tabayyana alrrushdu mina alghayyi faman yakfur bialttaghooti
wayu/min biAllahi faqadi istamsaka bialAAurwati alwuthqa
la infisama laha waAllahu sameeAAun AAaleemun
2:256. No compulsion in
religion. Surely, the right has become distinct from the wrong. So, whoever has
rejected false gods and believed in Allah, he/she has taken a firm hold of a
strong link that shall never break. And Allah sees, He knows.486
486. There is no question of anyone compelling any
other to become a Muslim. Becoming a Muslim requires a change in the mindset of
a person. And no amount of compulsion can ever change a person's mind.
Compulsion in this regard moreover implies an act against the divine plan. And
the divine plan is to test a person whether he/she becomes a Muslim with
his/her own free will. Most of us are Muslims by default. We call ourselves
Muslims because we're born into Muslim families. But do we have Muslim
mindsets? The sad fact is that an overwhelming majority of us don't. Oh, had we
but sincerely believed in Allah and rejected all the false gods! The false gods
come to us in many hues and colours. They come to us with enticements of the
transitory benefits of this world, and we've fallen easy preys to them. Had we
but rejected the satanic temptations and taken hold of that firm link to Allah,
we wouldn't be in the sorry state that we find ourselves in, today.
Friday, the 17th of May 2019.
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