MU’TEZIL’S VIEW OF TO GOD AND HIS SERVANT WILL

Abstract

The concept of volition constitutes one of the main problems of Kalam Science. In addition, this issue underlies many other problems such as the coercion and freedom of actions of the person and the justice of God. The issue of volition has been built on two main goals from past to present. The first of these aims is to prove the unity of God, in other words, it is the aim of keeping the understanding of "polytheistic belief " away from belief in the unity of God. Another aim is to prove that God's volition has no effect on the actions of a person. In other words, it is to prove that people are themselves responsible for their actions. Of course, the main factor in this issue has been some human-based conflicts. Accordingly, the concepts of divine volition and, in this context, the volition of the person have also been the subject of discussion. Similarly, depending on this duality, it has been discussed whether the main volition is within God and whether God will have an obstructive-facilitating or coercive-mandatory effect on a person who has some intentions with little volition. In the context of these approaches, some of these theological scholars defined "Will" and then tried to explain the difference between the will of God and the will of the people. After all, some have stated that people are free in their deeds. On the other hand, some theological scholars have also stated that people are under pressure in their actions. Subsequently, theologians tried to explain the relationship between attributes and the essence of god and they aimed to explain and prove the unity of God. All these goals have supported a little more understanding of the validation of God and the people. Our study has been prepared as a support for this purpose with the general point of view of Mu‘tazila scholars.