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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Case Inbetween Two Concerns Chapter Four : the Progeny (a.s.) Defending (justice) and (monotheism) Hereafter we shall try to collect and classify the fundamentals of thought, which the Imams of the progeny (A.S.) have presented to declare that misunderstanding of the Islamic concept. We shall introduce these ten fundamentals one after another. 1.

Destiny and Fate as a System in the Universe: The system that reigns over this universe is a (necessary inevitable) and (punctual accurate) one; nothing might happen – under the same circumstances and factors – except the thing that had already taken place. This system is established according to the system of (cause effect) ruling over the whole universe, this system is not limited to the physical material world; rather it reigns over the metaphysical world too.

Casualty system is the system of destiny and fate, for part of the fundamentals of (casualty) is the (inevitable) being of (effect) whenever the (cause) happens to be; in addition to the quantitative and qualitative identification of the (effect).

Thus, when a match is rubbed against the rough surface of a matchbox, fire and heat necessarily, inevitably and certainly are produced (unless there were some hindrances) furthermore, the heat emitted from this friction has a limited identified quantity that is proportionate to the size of the match stick, the degree of friction, and the nature of the rough surface. The inevitability of (effect) occurrence is (destiny), its quantitative, qualitative identification is (fate).

Hence (destiny) means the inevitable necessity, and (fate) (Al Qaudar) means estimation and quantity.([^1]) Al Kulainy relates from Yunus bin Abdul Rahman who relates a conversation between him and Abul Hassan AL Redha(A.S.): O, Yunus! Do you know what is fate? I said: No. He said: It is engineering and fixing the limits of being (survival) and nothingness (extinction).

He (A.S.) also said: (Destiny is arrangement (Ibram).([^2]) So, this universe is a band of organized links of a chain, and the law that governs over it is inevitability, necessity, estimation, and identification (Al Tahdeed). The individual and social life of man is not an exception or a novelty in this universe, he is subject to the laws and codes that rule over the universe, thus man, his deeds and individual or social movement are situated within the circuit of destiny and fate.