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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Case Inbetween Two Concerns Introduction This book tackles a vital ideological subject which the thought of the progeny (A.S.) has already enriched. One thousand three hundred years ago Imam AsSadique(A.S.) issued his famous statement (Neither determinism nor authorization, rather a case inbetween two concerns).

If people ever have extracted from the progeny’s glamour (A.S.) and drank from their fountain they would have never gone astray, never would they have gone to the extreme, or refuged to extravagance; nor would have they deluded each other.

Imam Ali Foundation – Central Office – Holy Qum took into consideration the endless need of different schools and various levels of students to know the thought of the progeny(A.S.); hence it introduced this English translation realizing how urgently man needs this book in his mental and daily life. From Allah the Sublime we obtain success and content.

Imam Ali Foundation Holy Qum “In the name Allah the Merciful the compassionate” Prologue of the Center Praise and thanks are due only to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and peace and prayer be only upon our most gracious prophet who is sent as a grace for the worlds Muhammad the Mustafa (well chosen) and upon his kind and virtuous progeny.

One of the essential matters that has occupied – and still does – a vast zone in the Islamic thought is man’s deeds and perceiving whether they are attributed to him or to Allah the Great and Almighty, or both to man and Allah the Great and Almighty. Man due to the mentality and ability to think which has given him superiority over all creatures, is disposed to attribute his deeds – in case he had made them – to himself or to somebody else.

Is he the one who had prepared the introductions, reasons, means and devices under a certain determination and a specific conception for his deed, achieving it thereafter by his own will, choice and desire? Or, did he undertake that deed without any previous planning and arrangement? Or, was there a proportional compromise between both cases? Hence, the Muslims differed about that matter adopting three trends.