The Role of Fixed (Eternal) Entities on Human Freewill from Mulla Sadra’s Perspective

In mystical ontology, fixed eternal entities are the key to understanding various topics of destiny, predestination, God’s foreknowledge, etc. Mulla Sadra has used the notion of fixed entities in solving some of his philosophical problems. Acceptance of the theory of fixed entities as predetermined unalterable models of creatures in the divine world evokes a deep inconsistency with the theory of autonomy knowing the true subject of human in Sadra’s system. In the present study, after examining and analyzing the characteristics of the fixed entities, especially the prevailing relations between these general and particular truths and their objective and external persons, it is concluded that in Mulla Sadra’s mystical attitude, although all the actions and deeds of individuals in a given situation are under the nominal guidance and lordship and subject to the requirements of his fixed entity, according to the rule of the formula of “thought to action” over human actions, it is never a denial of acting voluntarily movement.