Islam Under Scrutiny by Ex-Muslims

Beating Women Sanctioned By Allah and His Beloved Prophet

Dawud  11: 2142:

Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab:

The Prophet (PBUH) said: A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife.

Introduction

This article discusses the issue of wife-beating as sanctioned in Quran 4:34. I will discuss some of Dr. Jamal Badawi’s writings on the issue. I will also be introducing some Hadiths to prove my claims.

Can a Doctor Lie?

The answer is a resounding YES

Dr. Jamal Badawi writes about the husband’s problems when they are at a great tension in relation to his wife.

Instead of divorce, the husband may resort to another measure that may save the marriage, at least in some cases. Such a measure is more accurately described as a gentle tap on the body, but NEVER ON THE FACE, making it more of a symbolic measure than a punitive one. Following is the related Qur’anic text:

Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband’s) absence what Allah would have them guard. As to those women on whose part you fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (next) do not share their beds, (and last) beat (tap) them (lightly); but if they return to obedience, seek not against them means (of annoyance): for Allah is Most High, Great (above you all). (Q 4:34)

Now, I do not know Dr. Badawi in person, but I have been told he has a gentle personality and kind manners. That is commendable indeed. I have no quarrel with that. I do have a problem with a person who knows better, and lies, just because he is writing to western audience. Believe it or not, the beating of a wife in Islam is not a gentle tap as Mr. Badawi portrays. It is a good beating. The Qur’an does not say its a gentle tap. Hadiths support my claims here too. Here is the above Qur’anic verse that Mr. Badawi just quoted in Arabic and in the three reliable English translations:

ٱلرِّجَالُ قَوَّٲمُونَ عَلَى ٱلنِّسَآءِ بِمَا فَضَّلَ ٱللَّهُ بَعۡضَهُمۡ عَلَىٰ بَعۡضٍ۬ وَبِمَآ أَنفَقُواْ مِنۡ أَمۡوَٲلِهِمۡ‌ۚ فَٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتُ قَـٰنِتَـٰتٌ حَـٰفِظَـٰتٌ۬ لِّلۡغَيۡبِ بِمَا حَفِظَ ٱللَّهُ‌ۚ وَٱلَّـٰتِى تَخَافُونَ نُشُوزَهُنَّ فَعِظُوهُنَّ وَٱهۡجُرُوهُنَّ فِى ٱلۡمَضَاجِعِ وَٱضۡرِبُوهُنَّ‌ۖ فَإِنۡ أَطَعۡنَڪُمۡ فَلَا تَبۡغُواْ عَلَيۡہِنَّ سَبِيلاً‌ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ عَلِيًّ۬ا ڪَبِيرً۬ا (٣٤)

004.034

YUSUFALI: Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband’s) absence what Allah would have them guard. As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (Next), refuse to share their beds, (And last) beat them (lightly); but if they return to obedience, seek not against them Means (of annoyance): For Allah is Most High, great (above you all).

PICKTHAL: Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Lo! Allah is ever High, Exalted, Great.

SHAKIR: Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great.

I would like to draw the reader’s attention that the exact wording translation from Arabic is “beat them”. There is no (At last). There is no (lightly). Adding such words is just a lie to make good of an evil Qur’anic verse. This is why I mentioned earlier that Mr. Badawi is lying. In fact, the reader can go on “Utube” and find Imams videos telling people when and how to beat their wives (and it is not lightly by any means). “Lightly” is a word Muslim apologetics try to add to defend the Qur’an and Islam. Now, I do not care who you are, and I do not care if you think you can beat your wife lightly (i.e. lovingly beat her with a tooth brush!!), if you believe in such nonsense, I hope reincarnation is true. I hope you will be reborn as a Muslim’s wife who believes in a “good beating”. Hopefully you can see how it feels when you are on the receiving end of it. I believe that will definitely serve you right.

Going back to Dr. Badawi’s claims above. Aside from his lie about “lightly tapping” your wife, I do have many issues with the above quote. First, does Dr. Badawi believe that men are “protectors” and “maintainers” of women as the above evil Qur’anic verse states? Does the physical strength of men justify Allah’s making them maintainers and protectors of women? Does the physical strength of men justifies them being the economic power that women will have to rely on? Why does a woman have to be “devoutly obedient” to the husband? Why shouldn’t the wife be an equal partner in the marriage? The above verse that Dr. Badawi quoted is just replete, and saturated inside and out, with Evil.

The Truth about wife-beating from the hadiths is this:

Man is the absolute master in the house. Beating your wife is definitely allowed in Islam. It should not be as severe as beating your slave. That’s all. You can beat your wife (lovingly !!) pretty good. Make it count!! Just do not break her bones! If you do, she may be able to leave and get a divorce. So, bruising, blue marks, red marks, ..etc are all okay. Just don’t go too violently in beating her so as to break her bones. In fact, it is preferred to use a stick or a whip to beat your wife with (easier than using your hand, that's for sure!!). This is what I deduced from an honest reading of the Qur’an and the Hadith about wife beating.

What can I say? The Islamic teachings on women are EVIL. It is hard not see Evil in, no matter what Qur’anic subject you research.

Related Hadiths

Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 73, Number 68:

Narrated ‘Abdullah bin Zam’a: The Prophet forbade laughing at a person who passes wind, and said, “How does anyone of you beat his wife as he beats the stallion camel and then he may embrace (sleep with) her?” And Hisham said, “As he beats his slave”

Muslim, Book 005, Number 2238:

Hammam b. Munabbih said: These are some of the a hadith of Muhammad. the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him), transmitted to us on the authority of Abu Huraira. So he narrated one hadith out of them (as this): The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: No woman should observe fast when her spouse is present (in the house) but with his permission. And she should not admit any (mahram) in his house, while he (her husband) is present, but with his permission. And whatever she spends from his earnings without his sanction, for him is half the reward.

Muslim, Book 030, Number 5756:

‘A’isha reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) never beat anyone with his hand, neither a woman nor a servant, but only, in the case when he had been fighting in the cause of Allah and he never took revenge for anything unless the things made inviolable by Allah were made violable; he then took revenge for Allah, the Exalted and Glorious.

Dawud, Book 1, Number 0142:

Narrated Laqit ibn Sabirah: I (the narrator Laqit) then said: Messenger of Allah, I have a wife who has something (wrong) in her tongue, i.e. she is insolent. He said: Then divorce her. I said: Messenger of Allah, she had company with me and I have children from her. He said: Then ask her (to obey you). If there is something good in her, she will do so (obey); and do not beat your wife as you beat your slave-girl. I said: Messenger of Allah, tell me about ablution. He said: Perform ablution in full and make the fingers go through the beard and snuff with water well except when you are fasting.

Dawud, Book 12, Number 2220:

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu’minin: Habibah daughter of Sahl was the wife of Thabit ibn Qays Shimmas He beat her and broke some of her part. So she came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) after morning, and complained to him against her husband. The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) called on Thabit ibn Qays and said (to him): Take a part of her property and separate yourself from her. He asked: Is that right, Apostle of Allah? He said: Yes. He said: I have given her two gardens of mine as a dower, and they are already in her possession. The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Take them and separate yourself from her.

Malik, Book 30, Number 30.2.13:

Yahya related to me from Malik that Abdullah ibn Dinar said, “A man came to Abdullah ibn Umar when I waswith him at the place where judgments were given and asked him about the suckling of an older person. Abdullah ibn Umar replied, ‘A man came to Umar ibn al-Khattab and said, ‘I have a slave-girl and I used to have intercourse with her. My wife went to her and suckled her. When I went to the girl, my wife told me to watch out, because she had suckled her!’ Umar told him to beat his wife and to go to his slave-girl because kinship by suckling was only by the suckling of the young.’

Dawud: Book 11, Number 2126:

Narrated Basrah: A man from the Ansar called Basrah said: I married a virgin woman in her veil. When I entered upon her, I found her pregnant. (I mentioned this to the Prophet). The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: She will get the dower, for you made her vagina lawful for you. The child will be your slave. When she has begotten (a child), flog her (according to the version of al-Hasan). The version of Ibn AbusSari has: You people, flog her, or said: inflict hard punishment on him.

 

If you like this essay: Stumble it   Stumble Upon Toolbar digg it reddit

 



Ibn Kamuna also contributes at faithfreedom.org. He can be contacted at ibnkammuna@aol.com.


Name:     closed
Comment:

.

Comments Notes: Keep comments short. Our system cannot separate paragraphs. Comments must be relevant to the topic of the article. We did not regulate the comments but if irrelevant comments, materials, adds of other websites etc. are being uploaded, we will have to regulate and even ban the IP addresses of such nuisance posters.


Name: EXCESAYCES
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 13:07:18 -0500

Comment

many muslims in india never read about hadiht and prophets sex life otherwise many muslims in india would have left islam now.


Name: Truth Seeker
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 13:18:24 -0500

Comment

Pardon me!Verse 4:34 does not talk about "wife beating." It sanctions "women beating." According to this verse, Muslim men can beat their mothers, sisters, daughters as well as their wives, as the latter are their property. This verse is in keeping with the ancient Arabs tradition. Men in that time controlled all women, including their step-mothers upon the death of their fathers. So identifying verse 4:34 only with "wife beating" is wrong. By the way, do not be misled by the word (husbands) that appears, in a parenthesis, in the verse, as it is the branchild of the apologetic translator (s).


Name: Philip Saenz
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 13:32:08 -0500

Comment

Male Muslims beat women because it's the nature of Neanderthal male Muslims to hurt others. Violence is part of the Islamic ideology. But nnotice that the cowardly male Muslims pick on the weaker sex. "Women are your prisoners, treat them well, if necessary beat them but not severely..." Firmidhi, 104. In Muslim language "not severely" means not too brutal.


Name:
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 14:26:05 -0500

Comment

Christian God Jesus teaches to hate your wife, father, mother, children, brethern, sisters, etc.: "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14:26)


Name: To: Philip Saenz
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 14:28:07 -0500

Comment

You must be a brainchild of your new God Ali Sina! Ali Sina is far superior to your old God Jesus, isn't it?


Name: Jesus said, Gay and lesbian must be put to death!
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 14:29:40 -0500

Comment

Christian God Jesus said, gay and lesbian must be put to death: "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." (Leviticus 20:13)


Name:
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 14:31:46 -0500

Comment

Christian God Jesus said, all non-Jews should be put to death: "That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman." (2 Chronicles 15:13)


Name:
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 14:33:49 -0500

Comment

Christian God Jesus said, wives should submit to their husbands: "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord." (Ephesians 5:22)


Name: duh_swami
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 14:51:28 -0500

Comment

Good article...'Lightly', means different things to different people...I might beat my wife 'lightly' with a tooth brush...or I may beat her 'lightly' with a ball bat. And for the guy who said this:Jesus said, Gay and lesbian must be put to death!...I don't think Jesus was around when Leviticus and Chronicles were written. The Prophet Isa was having lunch at Allah's Cafe and Barbershop, with Lucifer and Iblis, the day those books were written...


Name: Blackhawk
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 15:49:56 -0500

Comment

Muslims are NUTWADS. They would be funny if they were not so deadly. They don't want anybody offending them but they are offensive to everyone else. But don't worry they will get their due and it ain't gonna be 72 virgins. What kind of a lunatic thinks God would ordain something like that. What do the virgins get out of that deal, does Allah have no sympathy for them having to sleep with a smelly, oily Arab. And what God would promise them wine in the afterlife when they are not supposed to drink it here. Islam is the most silly religion in the history of the world. Muslims you make me laugh.


Name: Walter Sieruk
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 16:19:55 -0500

Comment

"Physical abuse of women in Muslim culture is very common and occurs at all levels of the social ladder." [Source NOW THEY CALL ME INFIDEL p.74 by Nonie Darwish]


Name: Philip Saenz
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 17:10:51 -0500

Comment

Blackhawk, I know what you mean when you say Muslims make you laugh. However, the evil Muslims also make innumerable people cry, weep, scream before they die at the hands of cutthroats, before women are raped by several Muslim savages, or before a child is raped by an old Muslim male pig pervert on the first "wedding night." Also, don't forget Female Genital Mutilation. That must be pure hell for the little girls when Muslim perverts cut off their clitoris. Concerning the evil little detractors who write silly short sentences as some above, don't forget that some if not all of them are probably evil Muslims. So I never answer them and I hope that no one else does either. Very often, I don't even read the detraction because I know what they are going to say: something untrue and/or evil. Thank you.


Name: Philip Saenz
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 17:22:53 -0500

Comment

So the false prophet, pedophile, child molester, slave owner, pig pervert, rapist, murderer Muhammad never assaulted anyone? Really?


Name: jenn
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 19:48:59 -0500

Comment

As far as i can tell muslim women deserve beatings for remaining as muslims. These women dont have any dignity. If they did they would not remain as muslims


Name: Kill the mohometans
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 22:57:13 -0500

Comment

mohometans are evil people do deserve to be killed, just the people of cannan. If these evil people are not killed they will go around killing people and spreading their evil..........


Name: leigh
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 23:14:09 -0500

Comment

"Christian God Jesus teaches to hate your wife, father, mother, children, brethern, sisters, etc.: "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14:26)" To the cowardly unnamed contributor: It means to love less those people as compared with loving Jesus.If Jesus tells his followers to love their enemies how would he tell them to hate their family?! Your ignorance of the Bible is amazing.


Name: To: jenn From IK
Date: Thursday February 26, 2009
Time: 23:17:38 -0500

Comment

Dear jenn, every woman has her own circumstances.Muslim women are the same. They are actually at a disadvantage. They are kept less educated, less free, and read less and work hard. They need our support. They don't need us to condemn them.This is my view on things. I am an older person now. When I was younger, I used to rush to judge people. I don't do that anymore.Thank you for your comment though.Have a good day.


Name: Blackhawk
Date: Friday February 27, 2009
Time: 08:30:32 -0500

Comment

Philip: You said it so well. Thank you. Leigh: You don't know anything about Christianity. And obviously you are an ignorant Muslim. And even if you are not a Muslim, you are just plain ignorant.


Name: leigh
Date: Friday February 27, 2009
Time: 22:48:19 -0500

Comment

To Blackhawk.I assume you are knowledgable about Christianity so explain Luke 14:26 to me,an ignorant Christian. Insults I don't mind . Give me reasoned argument.


Name: An Explanation from a Christian
Date: Saturday February 28, 2009
Time: 05:30:01 -0500

Comment

--Luke 14:26, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as his own life, he can't be my disciple."-- What this verse means is that if you follow Jesus you will be at odds or in conflict with the ways of the world, the way of getting instead of giving, the way of greed instead of generosity, the way of hate instead of love, the way of the desire of the flesh instead of the spirit.


Name: Silkworm is Moslem!!!
Date: Saturday February 28, 2009
Time: 13:27:43 -0500

Comment

The only solution comes to my mind is to Nuke Islam, but since Islam is not a physical being; we ought to “sort-out” Moslems. Since we have over a billion Moslems living in different countries all around the world, we might need attractive and colorful sugar-free, low-calorie, zero cholesterol tiny Nuclear bomblets. Not like the big 15,000 lbs whopeer like "daisy cutters" we roll-off from C-130s flying at 30.000 feet or above on civilian population of Iraq, or the precision guided bombs that often find their target in Moslem homes that kills sleeping mothers and their babies, these kinds hurt our reputation. So interestingly I suggest we use The small nuclear bomblets, these should have to be effective in getting rid of Moslems all around the world. Since our conscience is much "not that alive", killing Moslems should be simple like making a "collect call". Easy as a b c....POOF – However, to show the world that “We Care” for the “people in need”, we can air drop the food cans later on.


Name:
Date: Saturday February 28, 2009
Time: 13:28:40 -0500

Comment

Have you read Surah al-Nisa???


Name:
Date: Saturday February 28, 2009
Time: 13:31:21 -0500

Comment

In Israel, according to Andrea Dworkin, the famous writer who has written 3 books, the domestic violence in Israel is on the rise and in the year 2006/2007, the Jewish Husbands have actually beaten to death some 128 women. These cases are reported in Police and men were released as not having "proper evidence".


Name: Amin
Date: Tuesday April 14, 2009
Time: 10:52:32 -0400

Comment

Women are evil, they always betray and do cheating on their husbands if someone offer them money, and they should be treated like that beat them in very good manner.


Name: alimulakalimula
Date: Thursday May 21, 2009
Time: 00:22:08 -0400

Comment

These swines of the barberic cult, are so brain washed, as such they have lost there humanity. It is the animal that is left in them. What else can you expect from a rapist blood-thersty leader, that left them the satanic versus. I am not a Jew but I tell you, they sure know how to deal with these cockroaches. If they kill a Jew, they will destroy a herd of these subhumans.


 
Hit Counter