The Qur'an’s directives for peaceful coexistence with followers of other religions in humanity find different expressions in different places.

The Qur'an does not maintain that there could be only one way of prayer to God. There could be more than one. Thus the Qur'an says: "For each community there is direction in which it turns, so vie with one another in good works." (2:148) All commentators, from companions of the Prophet down to the contemporary ones, interpret this as a reference to the various religious communities and their different modes of `turning towards God' in worship. Ibn Kathir, in his commentary on this verse, stresses its inner resemblance's to the phrase occurring in 5:48 (discussed above) "Unto every one of you have We appointed a (different) law and way of life".