The book presents its central thesis by stating that religion is voluntary and innate, and coercive authority is its opposite, and that the historical conflation of religion and authority produced despotism and extremism in both the old and modern traditions. It then builds its theoretical alternative through the message, abrogation, and the gradualness of sovereignty transfer legislation to human ijtihad, divine prohibition is limited and human law is a mutable regulatory domain, and rituals lie outside political coercion, and freedom is a condition for worship and jihad. It concludes that renaissance and the civil state require overcoming the authoritarian legacy and building citizenship, so that citizenship, the constitution, freedom, and human ijtihad become a political framework that harmonizes with religion rather than seizing it.