By Mawlana Sayeed Siddiqui The problem of causality has vexed thinkers for millenia, but Islam has a simple solution: it relegates true causation to Allah alone, as an aspect of the core doctrine of tawhid, specifically tawhid al-af’al [the unity of God’s acts]. Later Sunni theologians propounded the doctrine of occasionalism, which clarifies the appearance of causality to humans while maintaining the world’s utter dependence on Allah, and some went even further in this vein, proposing the theory of tajaddud al-amthal [continuous re-creation of matter]. It serves to briefly examine the competing worldviews. Aristotle famously described the theory of the…
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