There is no compulsion in religion
لاَ إِكْرَاهَ فِي الدِّينِ
Religious Leaders
Muhammad
Founder of Islam, born around 570 CE in Mecca and dying in 632 CE in Medina. From around forty he reported revelations later compiled as the Quran, growing from trader to prophet and political leader who unified Arabia.
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Read, in the name of your Lord who created
-- Muhammad
When I, Constantine Augustus, and I, Licinius Augustus, fortunately met at Milan... we resolved to grant both to Christians and to all men the freedom to follow whatever religion each one wished.
-- Constantine the Great
They are not to be sought out. If denounced and convicted, they should be punished, but anyone who denies being a Christian and proves it in fact by praying to our gods is to be pardoned through repentance, however suspect his past.
-- Trajan
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
-- Thomas Jefferson