The Established Claim
Shahrur maintains that faith cannot be valid unless it arises from voluntary conviction and consent, and he objects to enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong by means of the stick and the whip.
Scope of the Reading
The passage does not address love and hate, does not establish a criterion of religious obligation in matters of doctrine, and does not explain every form of enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong.
For reading in the context of the book: Muhammad Shahrur: Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism. For the relation of deeds to Islam and faith: Islam, Faith, and Righteous Deeds.