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What is the ruling on compelling people to commit acts of disobedience, and is it possible to send supplications (du'as) and remembrances (adhkar) for protection, along with the necessity of sending the detailed answer referred to previously?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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The coercion deemed valid in Islamic law is compelling a person to commit a sin through beating, imprisonment, confiscation of property, or threatening with death, by someone who has the power to carry out such threats. A threat is considered coercion if it comes from an oppressive powerful individual, and the threatened person has no one to protect them except Allah. The coerced individual is permitted to commit the act they are coerced into, and the sin is generally lifted from them, except in the case of murder, where they are not permitted to kill another to save themselves. Anyone subjected to coercion to commit a sin must inform everyone whose notification would be beneficial in removing the coercion from them.

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