Determinism and free will from the perspective of Allameh Tabatabai with emphasis on Al-Mizan

A’llameh Tabatabaii believes that confusing between facts and mental conceptions and between necessity and contingency has led determinists to determinism, because they inferred from that the necessity in decree and ordinance of God, while our action in comparison with Devine pre-eternal will is necessary and in comparison with our will is contingent and voluntary. So our will is dependent and God’s will is independent. Materialists like Ahashe’reh has confused between facts and mental conceptions. Determinism and indeterminism are divided into two parts: real and fictitious. The discussion in fact is a mental discussion not a philosophical one, because we cannot consider mental conceptions as philosophical. None of social life, Devine foreknowledge and spinelessness cannot devest our freedom. The true idea about determinism and indeterminism is the idea of Holy Quran and Household of Holy Prophet: ‘neither there is determinism nor empowerment, but there is something between them’.