“When a man asked him whether God coerced his bondsmen to sin. Al-Sadiq replied "Allah is more just than to make them commit misdeeds then chastise them for what they have done." The man further asked, "Has he empowered them with their actions?" al-Sadiq said, "If He had delegated it to them, He would have not confined them to enjoining good and forbidding evil." The man further asked, "Is there a station or a position between the two?"”
The Imam said, "Yes, wider than [the space] between the heaven and the earth."
Views on free will
Source: [Nasr & Leaman, The History of Islamic Philosophy, February 1, 1996, Routledge, 978-0415056670, 256-257, 1, http://www.amazon.com/History-Islamic-Philosophy-Routledge-Philosophies/dp/0415056675]
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