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🔻"The Just God and the Human Moral Agent According to Muslim Theologians," Lec02
speaker: Dr. Hassan Ansari
Sep 13, 2026

🟥 Lecture in Persian. closed captions (CC) and auto-translate are available.

summary:
In this session, we discussed the topics that Muslim theologians typically address under the discussion of divine justice (ʿadl) in their theological works. We considered whether God is capable of performing an evil or improper act, whether He actually performs such acts, and whether God wills to perform an evil or improper act. We also discussed whether God is capable of speaking and communicating His message to human beings. To what extent can human actions be characterized as voluntary? Does a human being possess the power and capacity necessary both to act and to refrain from acting? And what is the relationship between human free will and the encompassing power and will of God?

In the beginning of the session, we also discussed briefly about the concept of God from the perspective of jurists, and about how conceiving human beings as morally obligated agents (mukallaf) in Islamic theology has influenced Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), the principles of jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh), and Muslims’ understanding of religion as governed by the Sharīʿa.

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