The American scholar Edwin Calgary wrote about the verse (2:256) “Let there be no compulsion in religion; truth stands clear from error”: ‘There is a verse in the Quran that is filled with truth and wisdom, and it is known to all Muslims. Everyone else should know it as well; it is the one that says there is no compulsion in religion.’ (Quailar, Young: The Near East: Society & Culture)
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The Mercy of Islam
In the early years of the Umayyad Caliphate Al-Walid bin Abdul-Malik, took the Church of John in Damascus from the […]