The human feeling strongly hates who tries to advocate virtue with
vice, like who forcefully imposes virtue on others. The first requirement of virtue is that it has to be freely
chosen. Who imposes virtue on others doesn’t give them a chance to choose good.
The strong hatred we feel toward who forces virtue denotes that good should be
practiced with our own free will. No good comes from good which comes through
evil means, and crushing someone's free will is
evil. The whole world
glorifies the word "freedom" in a psychological reaction against
coercion.
Some people think that without coercion and authority people will all
turn evil, and that's an illusion. There are two kinds of people: good and bad,
not all them are evil. Who advocates virtue and respects others' free
choice will be more influential than who forcefully compels them. This proves
the fact that fear from people becoming evil if not forced to be virtuous is a
false idea inspired by the devil.
Unlike what many people think, the more you recognize someone's free
will the more are able influence them. That's why you can wish that God guides
the person you're calling to God's path but you shouldn’t express that wish
lest you pressure their freedom. Freedom is a huge responsibility, hence who feels
free will realize that they're responsible for all their decisions even every
word they say. And when a person feels this responsibility they will start
relying on their own thinking .Your mind will not work unless it's in a free
environment.
The human feeling struggles to live in a free environment in order for
us to choose freely, because our feeling knows that God only accepts what we
choose freely. That's why you will not feel satisfied with yourself until you
freely choose to be good and surrender your life to God. The Quran addresses
that idea in many verses, like : " There is no compulsion at all in
religion", "For you is your religion, and for me is my
religion", " will you then compel mankind, against their will,
to believe?!", "can we force you to believe when you do not want
to?!", " Say to them, "Everyone acts in his own way,
and your Lord knows best who is rightly guided."".
God ordered His prophet to advise people and remind them of the truth in the best manner, He said in the Quran:
"Call them to the path of your Lord with wisdom and words of good advice;
and reason with them in the best way possible". God also said: " So
remind; you are only a reminder, you are not a controller over them" and
He said after that: " However, he who turns away and disbelieves, God
will punish him the greatest punishment", God is the one who punishes them
not us. The Quran's condemnation for coercing people to be virtuous proves that
imposing virtue on who doesn't want it is a vice.
We can't understand religion correctly without bearing in mind that it
centers around a person's intentions and free choice, and that life is test of
everyone's intentions which can only be made freely.
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