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Our Lord explains in the 256th verse of Al-Baqarah Sura that everybody is totally free concerning the fact that they will fulfill or not the orders of surrender.
2/Al-Baqarah 256:
There is no compulsion in religion. Verily, the Path of Irshad (Maturity) has become distinct from the Path of Misguidance (the Right Path from the wrong path). Whoever disbelieves in Tağût (the word Tagût covers a wide range of meanings. It means anything worshipped other than the Real God (Allah) i.e. all false deities) and believes in Allah, then he has grasped the most most trustworthy handhold (the hand of the murshid) that will never break. And Allah is All-Hearer, All-Knower.
We understand from the explanations of our Lord that man may act following his free will beginning from the lowest level to the level where he reaches irshad at every point. Our Lord has made a law that an other man cannot force his will in any direction and has not the authority to force it.
Those who comprehend this wrongly has reached the conclusion that there will not be any compulsion only in the choosing of the religion. That is to say, a disbeliever cannot be forced to enter the religion of Islâm. But if an individual belonging to the community of Islâm cannot fulfil his responsibilities towards Allah and comprehend them yet, it is necessary to force them to carry out the orders of Allah. They think so.
Whereas, our Lord explains to us in the sacred verses that any person who has entered (the circle of) Islam and who may be at any level of comprehension always maintains his free will and no one can meddle in it, act upon it. The person who tries to impose his conjecture (opinions) upon another in the name of religion is a fanatical one (a bigot). But there is no room for the fanaticism in Religion.