Islam and other religions A comparative study
Home » sharia Islam and Other Religions [ Say: We believe in God, and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus, and the Prophets from their Lord: We make no distinction between one and another .] (Aal `Imran 3:84) As is borne out by this command of God in the Qur’an , Muslims must believe in all the prophets of God previously sent to humanity. This means that they are not permitted to show any disrespect to any prophet or to the religion he taught to his followers. To a Muslim, religious belief must come out of a person’s free choice, as God has also commanded not to use any kind of coercion in the matter of religion: [Let there be no compulsion in religion, truth stands out clear from error.] ( Al-Baqarah 2:256) It is the conviction of a religion’s adherents, not the compulsion they can impose on others, that establishes its moral force on earth. This was a principle eviden