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8-Freedom in Islam
Question:
Does freedom exist in Islam?
Answer:
Of all the concepts of freedom that exist within the various religions and legal systems, the most extensive are found in Islam.
Islam indeed is a religion of freedom in every sense of the word.
Question:
Is there proof of this claim from the Qur’an and the sunna?
Answer:
Yes, indeed. With regard to the Qur’an it describes the Prophet of Islam as he who, “Makes lawful for them the good things and makes forbidden for them what is bad and he removes from them their burdens and the fetters that were upon them” [7: 157].
The encumbrances and social shackles that lay upon the necks of the people and had stifled their freedom were removed by the Prophet who thus liberated them and gave them their freedom after restrictions and ignorance had made them slaves.
