Free Will and Determinism from the Viewpoint of the Qur'an and Islamic Theology (Part One)

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The systematic study of determinism and free will, which is the human part of predestination, particularly in its Qur'anic and narrative context, requires to be dealt with in its conceptual as well as assertoric principles.
The evidences of deterministic theories such attributes of God as Eternal Knowledge, Absolute Creatorship, and General Providence. The Qur'anic and theological expression of these evidences and their reasons, showing the weaknesses of their reasons together with pointing out the sequence and homogeneity of the outcomes of these types of faulty expressions, as well as the presuppositions which were the source for untrue impressions of the Qur'anic verses and Divine Attributes are the issues examined in this article.