 For Muʿtazilite theologians, then, the circle of agents includes both God and humanity, since human beings cause certain accidents. Some of these accidents are directly produced by human agents; for example, my choice to strike you and my bodily motion of striking. Others are produced by “generation” (tawallud); for example, your falling into a coma. A human agent produces an accident by generation when she produces the cause (sabab) of the accident, but not the accident itself. (The accident itself is brought into being by God, unless impeded by another accident.) The production of accidents by generation was not supposed to involve shared responsibility between God and human beings, since the point of identifying a human being as the source of such accidents was to attribute responsibility for their production to that human being. 