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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Case Inbetween Two Concerns Chapter One : Historical Inevitability, Universal Inevitability In the course of the philosophical history of reason we come across two theories that set out from inevitability as a start point. The first of which; concerns man’s behaviour, in particular, individual and social behaviour. The other pertains to the universal system as a whole.

The first theory tends to believe in the inevitability of man’s behaviour retarding his will and negating its role ever in his behaviour. The second theory tends to assert inevitability in the universal system as a whole, claiming that the entire universe moves within an accurate system according to the law of casualty.

This system runs within a serial chain, each one of its links is connected to the prior and the following one within some inevitable system that does not change or drop behind, and nobody’s will ever may interfere to shift it. If we presume that we have found the key links in this series of the general universal system, succeeding to read the cardinal order of these links that keep the system in hold; then we shall be able to foretell all events in the universe right to its last day.

Both theories run through each of the two eminent trends of thought, the divine doctrine and the material one. Some of those who believe that inevitability controls man’s behaviour and history, do believe in Allah the Sublime, and they attribute this inevitability to Him. Others who belong to the opposite direction (the material trend) reach to the same conclusion on the grounds of casualty law, or the dialectical system of thought.

Thus both trends assert that both, mans behaviour and his history are inevitable. The second inevitability (the universal) in its turn does not concern this party or that exclusively; it is quite possible that both materialists and religious may adhere to it. The Jews are one of the religious groups that tend to follow the trend of the universal inevitability. The Sublime said: [The Jews said: Allah’s hand is fettered. Be their hands fettered and they be cursed for what they uttered] Al Maidah v.