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The Position of Intellect in theā€¦ S.J. Ebrahimi & H. Sadeqi (151

               traditions  about  children            to badness, unjust and cruel
               and wrote:                             for.  An       objective     act

                  The argue in cognition of           consists of various aspects,
                  justice  and  oppression,           since  many  aspects  of  its
                  and  the  manner  to                truth  and  wisdom  are

                  distinguish  of  which  is          hidden  to  us.  If  they
                  not  referred  back  to  the        become clear to us, we may
                  inclination  of  nature             not  only  count  that  act  as

                  towards  something  and             bad but also praise its doer.
                  its  aversion  from;  but           It  is  adequate  if  being  the
                  intellectual  counting  of          wise and just of its doer are
                  goodness and badness.               reasonably  approved  to  us,

                  Therefore,  we  are  not            then  we  can  rule  on  it  as
                  permitted       to      have        wise  and  right  act  due  to

                  certitude  on  the  badness         being  ignorant  of  its  wise
                  of  an  act  due  to  our           cause.
                  ignorance  of  its  causes,            As  well,  we  can  rule  on
                  and     to    function     to       certitude  about  the  justice

                  dismiss an act out of the           of its doer, even though this
                  boundary       of     justice       particular  act  is  against  of
                  based  on  its  outward             nature.

                  manifest. (Saduq, 2000: 396)           As Saduq said:
                                                         Whenever we are obligated
                  Namely,  as  for  being                to  do  nothing  but  right,

               mere  counting  as  bad                   wise     and      what     is
               (Istiqbah) of an act against              righteousness in, it would
               of  nature, we cannot  judge
                                                         be  compulsory  upon  us
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