A Comparative Study on Fate and its relation with Determinism and Free Will in Tafsir-e Kabir and Almizan

Existence of various verses about divine fate and human free will has brought about common discussions among the Islamic theologians, philosophers, and commentators and different opinions have been proposed. This issue has a more prominent representation in theologian commentaries. Among these commentators, Fakhr Razi and Allameh Tabartabaie, as representatives of two commentary schools of Asharites and Imamiyah, have had different inferences in this regard. Relying on theologian principles of Asharites, Fakhr Razi believes that all human actions in individual and social life as well as occurrence of all events of the world are due to the divine fate which is a definite and necessary thing and violation from this fate is impossible while for Allameh Tabatabaie, by relying on deduction from the verses and narrations as well as rational arguments, there is no concomitance between these two issues. In addition, believing or not believing to issues such as the role of Quran verses in commentary of each other, the role of the verses style in correct understanding, Quran’s enjoyment from a specific language, authoritativeness of the speeches of Ahl ul-Bayt in commentaries, authoritativeness of reason in rational commentary, and goodness and evilness are among the reasons which have led to different inferences of Fakhr Razi and Allameh Tabatabaie from the verses related to the mentioned topic.