Tabatabai on the Relationship between Human Constitution, Destiny and Freewill

This article investigates the consistency between decree, destiny, constitution, and free will from Allame Tabatabai point of view. He believes every worldly thing has a precedent in the previous worlds (imaginal world or destiny, intellectual world or decree) as its cause and coexistent. Everyone's constitution is his/her very unworldly causal ontological status that is co-existent wit her/him and is his/her intrinsic motivation in every work. Tabataba's two answers to the problem of consistency are based on the distinction between the numerical and non-numerical absolute Unity. According to the first answer, constitution only will give rise to a tendency, but does not erase free will. According to the second answer, the problem will be solved. This distinction can be a foundation for solving the seemingly conflict between quranic verses or religious traditions in many theological problems.