الحرية الدينية فى الاسلام

Abstract

1. ALLAH has created the mankind as a rational being. He created mankind and Jinns for His worship and He sent mankind upon Earth so that they inhabit it with the complicated tangle of faithfulness in God and yet do the worldly deeds. He will hold accountable each individual for what he did.

This test would not remain valid if not accompanied with necessary freedom of action and belief. Freedom is actually bestowed upon mankind by God Himself and it will be totally wrong to maintain it as a modern achievement that came after western, or any other enlightenment. It is not that a human or a group of them or any constitution or charter can truly give or grant freedom.

Most important of all this is freedom of Religion.

There is no compulsion in Religion, 2:256.

1. The early Muslims remained steadfast to this principle in all of their Ghazvat and they granted freedom of religious belief to their subjects.
2. Religious sites and houses of worship were safeguarded against any harm.
3. Islam and religious freedom are not put together. The following article will examine the Issue of Freedom of Religion in Islam and will try to remove misunderstandings regarding the issue.