Free will as a logical consequence of Ibn Arabi's mystical principles

Ibn Arabi, rejecting determinism and absolute free will, agrees with the middle position. For him, the former would lead to uselessness of Divine religion and the latter to limitedness of Divine power. Though some of his speeches formally support determinism, his four principles of the individual unity of being, Names wedding, human state of being the face of Truth and his references to some holy verses make his real view on the middle position clear. Human will in relation to Divine will can be regarded as a shadow and an appearance only. In this way, Ibn Arabi harmonize human free will with absolute will of God. In addition, he presented his theory of Divinty existence of acts and their modification by the servants and, therefore, stand in a considerable distance from Asharites.