الزام در آينه آيه «لا اكراه»

Obligation according to the Verse of "There is no Compulsion"

براي تربيت ديني، مربيان مي‌توانند از روش‌هاي گوناگوني بهره‌گيرند. يكي از اين روش‌ها «الزام» است كه در آن افراد به پذيرفتن دين، افزايش ميزان ايمان، فراگيري آموزه‌هاي دين و انجام دستورهاي عملي دين وادار مي‌شوند. يكي از پرسش‌هاي مهمي كه در اين بحث مطرح مي‌شود اين است كه آيا مربيان مجازند در تربيت ديني متربي از الزام و اجبار استفاده كنند؟ از‌ آنجا ‌كه براي نفي الزام در تربيت ديني از منظر اسلام عمدتاً به آيه «لا اكراه» تمسك شده است؛ در اين مقاله براي پاسخ به پرسش مزبور، آيه «لا اكراه» و آيات مشابه آن را با روش تفسيري و فقهي بررسي مي‌كنيم. نتيجه كلي به‌دست آمده از اين بررسي نشان مي‌دهد ‌كه استدلال به آيه «لا اكراه» و آيات مشابه آن بر عدم جواز استفاده از روش الزام و اجبار در تربيت ديني به‌طور مطلق، تام نيست و با اشكال رو‌به‌رو‌ست.

Instructors of religious matters can use different methods for religious education. One of these methods is "obligation" in which individuals are obliged to accept religion, increase their faith, learn the teachings of religion and do its practical injunctions. At the first glance, it may seem that instructors are not allowed to force individuals to accept religion, learn its teachings and do its injunctions like praying. Therefore, one of the important questions raised in this regard is that whether instructors are allowed to use obligation and compulsion in religious education of individuals? Since it is mainly referred to the verse of "there is no compulsion" to negate obligation in religious education from the view of Islam, the present paper investigates this verse and similar ones by using interpretive and jurisprudential method in order to answer the aforementioned question. The general finding of the research indicates that basing the argument on the verse of "there is no compulsion" and similar verses does not mean that using the method of obligation and compulsion in religious education is totally forbidden, and that this argumentation is problematic.