LessonsCompulsion and Choice: Voluntary Acts, Creation and AcquisitionQuiz

ولا إسناد الأفعال التي تقتضي سابقة القصد والاختيار إليه على سبيل الحقيقة
Denying meaningful choice undermines the genuine attribution of deliberate acts to the person performing them.

Expressions such as ṣallā, kataba, ṣāma—he prayed, wrote, and fasted—name acts performed by a human agent. They are not empty grammatical conventions; they communicate an actual relation between a person and conduct.

The act is truly the person's act, even though the person is not an independent creator of its existence. The two statements speak about different aspects of the same event.

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Real attribution of acts to persons

Compulsion and Choice: Voluntary Acts, Creation and Acquisition

ولا إسناد الأفعال التي تقتضي سابقة القصد والاختيار إليه على سبيل الحقيقة
Denying meaningful choice undermines the genuine attribution of deliberate acts to the person performing them.

Expressions such as ṣallā, kataba, ṣāma—he prayed, wrote, and fasted—name acts performed by a human agent. They are not empty grammatical conventions; they communicate an actual relation between a person and conduct.

The act is truly the person's act, even though the person is not an independent creator of its existence. The two statements speak about different aspects of the same event.