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  • Posted by elliot gilly on June 29, 2024 at 9:46 am

    Most scientists will say we live in a deterministic universe of cause and effect and that free will is an illusion as we are bound by the laws of physics, how does Islam understand free will? is it our brains, ruh, nafs….

    Dr. Irfan Shahzad replied 3 days, 2 hours ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Free Will

  • Dr. Irfan Shahzad

    Scholar June 29, 2024 at 10:57 pm

    Free will is not a topic for science but philosophy discusses it. Human intellectual faculty has no way to determine free will doesn’t exists. It speculates and reaches at different conclusions.

    All we know is the experience that free will does exist. It isn’t absolutely free in the sense that we can’t choose to eat for example filth or raw meat, but we are free to make and change our decisions regarding ethical and aesthetical and intellectual matters.

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