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The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
on Monday said there was no precedent in Islamic history for forcefully converting others, and those who do so "know neither the history of Islam, nor their religion, the Koran or Sunnah."
The premier made the remarks while addressing an event around the National Minority Day hosted at the Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad.
The premier said that Prophet Muhammad's (PTUI!) life was a road map for people to follow till the day of judgement. He explained that the Prophet himself had given minorities religious freedom and protected their places of worship, "because the Koran orders that there be no compulsion in religion".
"How can we then take it into our own hands to forcefully convert someone to Islam ‐ either by marrying [non-Moslem] women [...] or on gunpoint or to [by threatening to] kill someone because of their religion?" he asked.
"All these things are un-Islamic. If God hadn't given his messengers the power to impose their beliefs on someone, who are we [to do so]?" he asked, explaining that the messengers' duty was only to spread the word of God.
| A lovely sentiment. Missing the second half of the prophet’s history, and will therefore be ignored by those who know better, but lovely nonetheless. |
