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Wife-beating is in accordance with Sharâia law
EFL, you canât make this stuff upOn the Al-Jazeera weekly program âThe Sharâia and Lifeâ of October 5, 1997, Al-Qaradhawi said: "Beating is permitted [to the man] in the most limited of cases, and only in a case when the wife rebels against her husband... The beating, of course, will not be with a whip, a stick, or a board. The beating will be according to what the Prophet said to a servant girl who annoyed him on a particular matter, âIf it were not for fear of punishment in the Hereafter, I would have beaten you with this miswak.â "Likewise, the beating must come only after admonishment, and expelling [the wife] from the bed [as is said in the Qurâan 4:34], âAdmonish them, leave them alone in their beds, and beat them.â He also said: "Beating is not suitable for every wife; it is suitable for certain wives and for other wives it is not. There is a woman who cannot agree to being beaten, and sees this as humiliation, while some women enjoy the beating and for them, only beating to cause them sorrow is suitable... Posted by: Gromky 2004-03-26 |
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