What is the difference between inviting to Allah, enjoining good and forbidding evil, and compulsion and coercion?
Forcing and coercing people into religion is not permissible, because the role of the caller and explainer is to remind, as stated in the Almighty's saying: "So remind, for you are only a reminder. You are not over them a controller," and His saying: "There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong." Enjoining good and forbidding evil is part of calling to Allah. Thus, every enjoining person is a caller, but not every caller is an enjoining person.
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