As more and more Muslims turn towards Islam in search of meaning and direction, there will be a powerful need to reexamine Islamic tradition and Islamic message in the light of our present existential conditions. Muslims now come from different cultures and different political and economic conditions. While there will be a need for consensus on some issues like political governance, there can be room for difference in other areas. For all this to work it is important that Muslims develop an ethics of discourse. The present rigid and inflexible approach to Islamic legal opinions of the past must be discarded and replaced with a more open and compassionate understanding of Islam.
Islamic law is supposed to serve the Muslim society.
It cannot do so by imposing itself on the society. Remember God is not a tyrant, he is most merciful and most benevolent. It is those who are supercilious enough to speak on his behalf that often suffer from this affliction. This Verse has a very important message for those who tend to use a literalist approach to Islamic injunctions. The verse suggests that many meanings are decipherable from the text of the Quran.