One of the issues discussed among the Islamic philosophers regarding the discussion on cause and effect is the ‘final cause’. However, we must not mixed it up with the term ‘finality’ or use them interchangeably, for the final cause means ‘what the action is done for’ and finality is ‘what the motion leads to’. Among the features of the final cause is that it precedes the action and it is within the authorities of the actor, unlike the finality that follows the action and is considered the secondary perfection for the action. Following the Islamic philosophers, Allama Tabatabai has dealt with a discussion on the final cause and its precepts. In his Nihayat al-Hikma, under the discussion on the final cause, he has seemingly considered the final cause to be the same as the finality with no difference between them. However, with the evidences provided in this article, it is proved that Allama would regard them as different