Types of borders in Islam
The meaning of the limit in the language refers to prevention, and as for the meaning of God’s limits idiomatically, it is what Islamic law has destined for punishments, to be a restraining measure that prevents its confined causes, and these penalties are a right of God Almighty, so it comes out of this definition of retribution; Because it is the right of the servant, as the penalty for reinforcement comes out; Because it is not legally estimated, and among the examples of God’s limits: the limit of adultery, the limit of theft, and the limit of war, and the scholars of the Islamic nation differed in the limit of slander if it was a right of God Almighty or a right of the servant, so whoever went to believe that it is a right of God Almighty did not It is permissible for the servant to pardon in it, but whoever believes that it is one of the rights of people is permitted for the servant to pardon in it, and from what must be known is that the limits of God enact pardon if its matter does not reach the guardian, but if it arrives after evidence is established, and the testimony of witnesses must be applied by the guardian. It is not permissible to pardon or intercede for it.