{"text":"Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, 'Let there be no compulsion in religion' (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history.","author":"Huston Smith","tags":["atheist","christian","compassion","death","discipline","earth","fact","faith","hindu","history","human","inspirational","jewish","kindness","law","life","love","mandate","muslim","passion","peace","people","politics","religion","science","silence","society","structure","tender","unity"],"id":204842,"author_id":"Huston+Smith"}