As part of his participation in the Noble Qurʾan Conference held at Husayniyya al-Rumayh in the city of Saihat in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sayed Mahmoud Al-Mosawi presented, on the evening of Thursday, 16 Ramadan 1426 AH, a research paper entitled “The Qurʾan and the Freedom of Society .. Problems of Contemporary Reality (Religiosity as an Example). The conference, in its third session, was under the slogan (The Project of Freedom in the Noble Qurʾan and the Problems of Contemporary Reality), on 17–18 of the blessed month of Ramadan 1426 AH, and the participants in the conference were: .
• His Eminence Shaykh Muhammad Hasan al-Habib - Safwa
• His Eminence Shaykh Hasan al-Nimr - Dammam
• His Eminence Shaykh Zakariyya Dawud - Saihat
• His Eminence Shaykh ʿAli Al Musa - al-ʿAwamiyah
• His Eminence Shaykh Jawad Jadr - Saihat
• His Eminence Sayed Mahmoud Al-Mosawi - Bahrain
• The journalist Ustadh ʿAbd al-Fattah ʿId – Saihat (conference director).
The research presented by Sayed Mahmoud Al-Mosawi addressed an introduction to human movement through his feeling and inclination toward liberation, and he pointed out that freedom must have controls and paths that accord with the interest of the human being.
For unleashing freedom leads to absolute licentiousness in all aspects of life, and this can be understood through the Qurʾanic treatment of the act of excess in eating and drinking, and in rule and administration, and in desires and sex, and in ideas and indifference, and other things ..
Likewise is the case with the burying alive of the feeling of freedom, which man has carried out through the act of gratuitous prohibition, as the Noble Qurʾan mentions, such as those who forbade the adornment of Allah ..
(Freedom is among the most important civilizational features of the rising Islamic society; therefore the Noble Qurʾan emphasized it and treated its problems connected with psychological burdens, which consist of psychological illnesses, the culture of burying alive, and the whisperings of the self that call to servitude to oneself and to desires. It treated the problems of repression practiced by the tyrants, and it called for disavowing fake deities, rejecting them and confronting them as an impediment to the movement and effectiveness of society).
The Noble Qurʾan gave glad tidings of a free society according to the aforementioned controls, such that it fulfills the desires of the human being and does not transgress against the freedoms of others .. Therefore among the attributes of the living society are freedom and the breaking of the shackles .. “Social shackles are like chains encircling the necks of people, dragging them reluctantly and by compulsion toward what they do not want; freedom, then, is the removal of these shackles so that society may set out in the direction of the will that it chooses.”
Therefore the contemporary problems we see in the attempt of some to oppose this concept through their behaviors, which they claim are attributed to religion, cannot be justified Qurʾanically. The reason that made those people fall into this act is the confusion between the concept of (calling and conveying) and the concept of (guidance)..
Calling and conveying is the responsibility of the person of the Mission.
Guidance is a divine matter.
Whoever confuses this and that, and practices compulsion and violence toward people so that they may believe, will contradict the Qurʾanic call to convey, and its call to no domination and no compulsion in religion ..
For adopting religion is the concern of the intellect and the heart, while the act of compulsion is the concern of the body and outward form, and the one does not accord with the other ..
After that the research moved on to resolving the problem between affirming the rightfulness of the Islamic religion, the call to it and the unacceptability of other religions, and affirming freedom of belief and leaving the choice to people ..
The contributions and comments from the honorable audience, which were extensive, revolved around several issues, among them the place of killing the apostate in relation to affirming religious freedom, the place of levying kharaj on non-Muslims in the lands of Islam, and the crisis of some parties representing religion in claiming that they are the absolute truth ..
Sayed Mahmoud Al-Mosawi answered the set of problems and discussions raised, in the context of their relevance to the research.
Participating on the same night was His Eminence ʿAllamah Shaykh Muhammad Hasan al-Habib.
