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Al-Baqarah 2: 256–7

and their upholding wearies Him not. He is All-High, All- Glorious.

(256) There is no compulsion in religion.89 The Right Way stands clearly distinguished from the wrong. Hence he who rejects the evil ones90 and believes in Allah has indeed taken hold of the firm, unbreakable handle. And Allah (Whom he has held for support) is All-Hearing, All- Knowing. (257) Allah is the Guardian of those who believe, He brings them out of every darkness into light. And those who disbelieve, their guardians are the evil ones;91 they bring them out of light into all kinds of darkness. These are destined for the Fire, and there shall they abide.

89 The verse means that the Islamic system, embracing belief, morals and practical conduct cannot be enforced by compulsion. These are not things to which people can be yoked forcibly.

90 Literally taghut (pl. tawaghit) means anyone who exceeds his legitimate limits. In the Qur’anic terminology, however, it refers to the creature who exceeds the limits of his creatureliness and arrogates to himself Godhead and lordship.

91 Here taghut (see n. 90 above) has a plural connotation. This implies that by turning away from God a man is subjected not to the tyranny of one, but to the tyranny of many tawaghit (evil ones).

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