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However, from the noble verses, the immaculate traditions and intellectual arguments, one can understand the purposefulness of the universe. The purposefulness of the universe is to create grounds where humans by their activity, out of freewill, carry out their worship and obligation towards God and reach high levels of perfection, proximity to the Divine and acquire unique mercies from God. Besides, if there were no such thing as human volition then there would be no meaning of responsibility.

There would also be no eternal recompense or bounties for the actions provided. Furthermore the purpose for creation would be defective resulting in the mechanism of creation being as a puppet show, where humans are the puppets acting without any determination, and at the end of the day some are rewarded and some are punished for their actions!

The substantial cause for the expansion of these inclinations was the evil political desires of the tyrannical regimes, which nullified and rectified their ill actions and behaviours and hampered resistance from over throwing them.

From another angle, those who were aware of the weak elements of this thought but had no vision of how to associate between absolute monotheism and the negation of determinism and were also remote or did not benefit from the teachings of the Prophet’s household (a), acknowledged delegation. They regarded human activity to be completely out of the realm of Divine activity.

This itself become another branch of distorted thought, which deprived them from achieving great results from the Islamic sciences. However those who had the capacity to recognise this knowledge, and were aware of the rightful teachers and interpreters of the Qur’an, saved themselves from this distortion. They regarded their free-activity as being due to the power that God had granted them and accepted the responsibility, which was derived from it.

From another standpoint they accepted the Divine independent effectuality on a higher level and realised the outcomes of this great wisdom. In the enlightening traditions of the household of the Prophet (a) under the section of freewill, capability (istitā’ah), Divine decree and destiny, we find the denial and negation of determinism and predestination.

Also there are many narrations, which have ordered disqualified individuals to avoid delving too deeply into these issues, to prevent deviation and misunderstanding.