Advocate Nizam Ali Khan, a speaker on Islam, recently clarified a commonly misquoted verse from the Quran during an interview in Hyderabad; It is actually from verse 34 of Chapter 4 of the Holy Quran, in which Allah says, “if the wife has become arrogant then beat them”. This verse of the Quran is often mis-quoted by some section of biased media and enemies of Islam. They wanted to defame the beautiful teachings of Islam by mis-interpreting the verses of the Quran or the sayings of Prophet Mohammed, Khan said, on the contrary, there is nothing in the Quran that suggests that a man is allowed to beat his wife.
The Quran enjoins good treatment of one’s wife: she is to be honoured and treated kindly, even when one no longer feels love in one’s heart towards her. Khan further explored the teachings of Prophet Mohammed were he said, that the Prophet Mohammed enjoined kind treatment and honouring of one’s wife, and he described the best of people as those who are best to their wives. He said: “The best of you are those who are the best to their wives, and I am the best of you to my wives.”
(Tirmidhi, 3895; Ibn Majah, 1977), The Prophet Mohammed spoke a beautiful word concerning kind treatment of one’s wife, stating that when the husband feeds his wife and puts a morsel of food in her mouth, he earns the reward of doing an act of charity.
He said, “You never spend anything but you will be rewarded for it, even the morsel of food that you lift to your wife’s mouth.” (Bukhari, 6352; Muslim, 1628) The Prophet Mohammed said: “Fear Allah with regard to women, for you had taken them as a trust from Allah and intimacy with them has become permissible to you by the words of Allah. Your right over them is that they should not allow anyone to sit on your furniture that you dislike; if they do that then hit them but not in a harsh manner. And their right over you is that you should provide for them and clothe them on a reasonable basis.”
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The saying of Prophet Mohammed may be understood as meaning that a man has the right to hit his wife, in a manner that is not harsh and does not cause injury if there is a reason for that, such as her going against his wishes or disobeying him. If a woman rebels against her husband and disobeys his commands, then he should follow this method of admonishing her, forsaking her in bed and hitting her. Hitting is subject to the condition that it should not be harsh or cause injury. It must just like tapping slowly just to make her understand.
Al-Hasan al-Basri said: “This means that it should not cause pain.” ‘Ata said: I said to Ibn `Abbas, what is the kind of hitting that is not harsh? He said, Hitting with a siwak and the like. [A siwak is a small stick or twig used for cleaning the teeth]. The purpose behind this is not to hurt or humiliate the woman, rather it is intended to make her realize that she has transgressed against her husband’s rights, and that her husband has the right to set her straight and discipline her.
Khan concluded by saying that Muslims men should not misunderstand this verse and saying of Prophet Mohammed and start hitting their wives and some section of anti-Islamic, Media and politicians and enemies of Islam try to defame Islam my quoting it out of context and saying Islam allows Husbands to beat their wives black and blue and make them handicap, which is untrue; on the contrary Islam honours each and every human being and each and every relation, whether it may he Husband, wife, men, women, Muslims, non-Muslims, kids, adolescent, old age etc.
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