A study and analysis of Ayatollah Sobhani's critical approach to the issue of the sequence of infinite wills and the eternal will of God

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD Student, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The will and freedom of human actions and on the other hand algebra and involuntary actions are among the long-standing issues that not only thinkers and philosophers who have attracted the general public He has studied the method of the Ahl al-Hadith and the Ash'arites, and the philosophical method and material determinism, and in the matter of authority, including the school of the delegates and the matter between the two, and the school of existentialism. The aim of this study was to investigate and analyze Ayatollah Sobhani's critical approach to the issue of the sequence of infinite wills and the eternal will of God through a study-library method. The results showed that from the point of view of Ayatollah Sobhani, God has created the world with his will based on the system of cause and effect, and believing in the absolute will of God is not a matter of coercion. Sobhani believes that the divine will belongs to human free will and not to human actions. While the Ash'arites consider the subject of the divine will to be contrary to free will and in line with determinism, Sobhani, unlike the Ash'arites, considers the free will of man to be the subject of the divine will. Therefore, in his view, whatever the divine will is, it will not contradict human action, because God has placed the foundation on human freedom.

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