This indicates that words uttered under duress concerning divorce, manumission, sale, purchase, or any other contract are of no legal effect and entail no ruling under Islamic law. If a person is not punished for uttering a word of disbelief when compelled to do so, then this applies all the more so to anything less serious.

⦗110 - 111⦘ “Then indeed your Lord—for those who emigrated after being persecuted, then strove and remained steadfast—indeed your Lord, after all that, is surely All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”

That is, your Lord, who nurtures His sincere servants through His kindness and beneficence, is surely All-Forgiving, Most Merciful toward those who emigrated for His sake, leaving behind their homes and wealth in pursuit of Allah’s pleasure; who were persecuted because of their religion in an attempt to make them return to disbelief, yet remained firm in faith and had the certainty within them refined; who then strove against Allah’s enemies to bring them into Allah’s religion by their tongues and hands; and who remained steadfast in these acts of worship, which are arduous for most people.

These are among the greatest means by which the greatest gifts and finest blessings are attained: Allah’s forgiveness of all sins, minor and major alike—which entails the removal of everything undesirable—and His immense mercy, through which their condition is set right and their religious and worldly affairs are put in order. They will therefore receive mercy from Allah on the Day of Resurrection, when: