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Relationship between Divine Will and Human Will 3 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Relationship between Divine Will and Human Will 3 2022-10-10 385 Views Divine Will , Human will In this part of the article titled “Divine Will and Human will”, we shall continue about the relationship between the two elaborately.

Therefore, the human being can, on his own accord, will that which Allah wills and be satisfied with Allah’s existential and legislative satisfaction—refusing to want or to seek anything but that which Allah wants from him and that which He pleases.

In so doing, the human being has willed in accordance to the Divine generative and legislative wills, although the human will and potency themselves have been bestowed to the human being by this same Divine generative will, and as such his existence and will is an extension of the will and existence of Allah. This concurrence entails no contradiction and thus is not impossible for it is not the concurrence of two complete causes in the generation of one effect.

At the same time, human will and volition have not been denied to him. Rather, because Allah has given him the permission to will and choose, he determines what path he wants to follow and in doing so ends up willing what Allah has willed (1). If the human being disobeys and violates the legislative will of Allah, doing what Allah dislikes, he has done so on his own accord and as such, has headed towards an awful fate.

But this disobedience is not a violation of Allah’s generative will, for He has, through His own generative will, created the human being willing and volitional, and as such has given him the capacity to defy His legislative will. Accordingly, this defiance does not signify the human being’s overcoming the will and power of Allah.

He can deprive the hopeless human being of his will and power whenever He desires and it is concerning this that He says: “Do those who commit misdeeds suppose that they can out-manoeuvre Us? Evil is the judgment that they make.” (2) To sum up: In the realm of generative will and the act of Divine legislation itself, the human will cannot exert any influence whatsoever, and hence the question of the concurrence of Divine will and human will does not arise at this stage.

When it comes to the level of abiding by the legislative will, the human will is ontologically an extension of the Divine will.