Bounds of God
\r\n Al-Talaq (The Divorce) - Chapter 65: Verse 1 (partial)
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"These are the bounds of God, and whoso transgresses the bounds of God has wronged himself.\"
In the Quran, the rules of human conduct in society as established by God and imposed upon men, are called 'the bounds of God' (hudud Allah.)
\r\nGod's Will is unfathomably deep, and it is not for the human mind to probe it to its depths and to understand how and why it works as it does. So it comes about very frequently that the reason for a particular 'bound' remains an unsolvable mystery to men. A 'bound' is there simply because God has so decreed. Such is, for instance, the case with the Forbidden Tree in the Garden (Quran 2: 35).
\r\nThere are, however, many cases in which the setting of a 'bound' is understandable in terms of the social welfare; this occurs when the particular 'bound' is clearly calculated to produce some direct benefit to the life of people in a community. Thus God decrees in the Quran that there should be no usury, and He designates usury by the name of zulm (wrongdoing, oppression). The rules concerning divorce, which the above verse refers to, may be taken as another example.
\r\nCompiled From:
\r\n \"Ethico Religious Concepts in the Quran\" - Toshihiko Izutsu, pp. 167, 168