The Permissibility of Coercion in Religious Education According to the Quran

In this study, "religious education" refers to all forms and areas of deliberate teaching, learning and educating processes for religion in a bid to enable trainees to learn the religion and have faith in its doctrines and adhere to its teachings in practice. On this basis, religious education is the central and most important component of Islamic tarbiyyah and education. It is so important that Islamic education without it will not be materialized and implemented in the real sense.
In a religious education, the instructor can benefit from various methods to educate people one of which is force or coercion. According to this method, trainees are forced to accept the religion, increase their conviction and faith and carry out religious instructions. Perhaps, it might appear in the beginning that the instructors do not have the right to compel other people to accept the religion and or perform practical obligations such as prayer but in reality religion is something that cannot be accepted through compulsion and coercion. Therefore, an important question arising here is whether or not the instructors are allowed to force and coerce the trainees in religious education.