Suhaib Webb – Engaging Religious Communities- Insights from Early Muslims – SEO

			So I wanted to share some information with
		

			you about how the early Muslims, particularly in
		

			Egypt, where I lived,
		

			for 7 years,
		

			engaged,
		

			other religious communities. We know the Quran
		

			specifically
		

			grants people the right to believe in whatever
		

			they want to believe in. Allah says
		

			whoever wants to believe, let them believe. What
		

			else did disbelieve, let them disbelieve.
		

			Allah says, There's no compulsion in religion. You're
		

			not allowed to force somebody into religion. And
		

			even
		

			even though the message is harsh
		

			and it is a prophetic reminder to those
		

			people to turn to Allah and
		

			I'm not going to worship what you worship.
		

			And you, you're not going to worship what
		

			I worship. That's what it is. That's just
		

			how it is.
		

			And we find in our books of theology,
		

			the predominant opinion is that no one can
		

			be forced to become Muslim but people become
		

			Muslim the first obligation
		

			is the to think
		

			freely.
		

			That's why we have a great axiom
		

			that freedom comes before Sharia.
		

			That freedom is before tawhid. The mind has
		

			to accept
		

			and the heart has to digest and the
		

			limbs have to submit.