So what is the difference between the coercion and the compulsion?

So what is the difference between the coercion and the compulsion?’ He -asws said: ‘The compulsion is from the Sultan (ruling authority), and the coercions happens from the wife, and the mother, and the father, and that is not with anything’.

[22] أبي، عن سعد، عن البرقي، عن أبيه، عن الجعفري، عن أبي الحسن الرضا عليه السلام قال: ذكر عنده الجبر والتفويض فقال: ألا أعطيكم في هذا أصلا لا تختلفون فيه ولا يخاصمكم عليه أحد إلا كسرتموه ؟ قلنا: إن رأيت ذلك ; My father, from Sa’ad, from Al Barqy, from his father, from Al Ja’fary, ‘From Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza -asws having said: ‘The Compulsion and the Delegation was mentioned in his -asws presence, so he -asws said: ‘Shall I -asws give you a basis regarding this, no one would be differing in it nor disputing upon it except you would break him (his argument)?’ We said, ‘If you -asws see that as proper’.

فقال: إن الله عزوجل لم يطع بإكراه، ولم يعص بغلبة، ولم يهمل العباد في ملكه، هو المالك لما ملكهم، والقادر على ما أقدرهم عليه، Imam -asws said: ‘Allah -azwj is not obeyed by His -azwj Coercion and is not disobeyed by Predominance, and does not Load the servants regarding His -azwj Kingdom, and He -azwj is the Owner of what He -azwj Made them own, and the Able upon what He -azwj Made them to be able upon.

فإن ائتمر العباد بطاعته لم يكن الله عنها صادا، ولا منها مانعا، وإن ائتمروا بمعصيته فشاء أن يحول بينهم وبين ذلك فعل، وإن لم يحل وفعلوه فليس هو الذي أدخلهم فيه، Thus, if the servants deliberate with obeying Him -azwj , Allah -azwj would not become a Hinderer from it, nor Forbid it with a forbiddance; and if they deliberate with disobeying Him -azwj , so if He -azwj so Desires He -azwj would be a Barrier between them and that deed; and if He -azwj is not a Barrier and they do it, then He -azwj isn’t the One Who Entered them into it’.

ثم قال عليه السلام: من يضبط حدود هذا الكلام فقد خصم من خالفه. Then he -asws said: ‘One who grasps the limits of this speech, so he would defeat the one who opposes him’’.

[23] شى: عن عمرو بن مروان الخزاز قال: سمعت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: رفعت عن امتي أربع خصال: ما أخطؤوا، وما نسوا، وما اكرهوا عليه، وما لم يطيقوا ; From Amro Bin Marwan Al Khazaz who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah -asws saying: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘Four characteristics have been Raised from my -saww community – what they are mistaken of, and what they forget, and what they are coerced upon, and what they cannot endure.