Saidbook

No compulsion in religion’ (2:256) was a Qur'anic command revealed in Medina when a child from one of the Muslim families who had been educated in the town's Jewish schools decided to depart with the Jewish tribe being expelled from Medina. His distraught parents were told by God and the Prophet in this verse that they could not compel their son to stay. The verse, however, has been understood over the centuries as a general command that people cannot be forced to convert to Islam.

— Jonathan A. C. Brown

Another quote →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Jonathan A. C. Brown (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.