The Qur’an Commands Men To Beat Women [Behind the Veil - Unmasking Islam] While the New Testament commands men to love their wives and even to sacrifice their own lives for their sake as Jesus gave His life for us (Eph 5:1-33), we see that the Qur’an plainly and disgracefully commands men to beat their women as soon as they show any sign of disobedience to man’s authority and orders. It states in Chapter 4:34: As for these from women, fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart and scourge them. The Zamakhshari reiterates the same opinion (al-Kash-Shaf Vol. 1, p. 524). Both Imam Baydawi (p. 111), and Al-Tobari (p.92) repeat the same explanation. If we also search Ahkamal-Qur’an (the Ordinances of the Qur’an) by the Imam Shafi’i (Vol. 1, p.211), we read: In case of a husband’s ill-treatment [of his spouse], the Qur’an permits reconciliation of the spouses and arbitration, but in the case of the wife it allows scourging her. At the inception of Islam, we come across a very famous incident which all the Muslim chroniclers record (refer to Imam al-Nawawi: Riyad al-Salihin, The Orchards of Righteous Men, p. 107-108), Umar Ibn al-Khattab came to Muhammad saying, ‘Women have dared to disobey husbands.’ He allowed their husbands to scourge them. Many women approached Muhammad complaining against their husbands because Muhammad received a verse for the Qur’an which commands their husbands to scourge them. In the Kash-shaf (the revealer) of al-Zamakhshari (Vol. 1, p. 525), we read the following, On the authority of Muhammad (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him), he said: ‘Hang up your scourge in a place where your wife (or wives) can see it.’ Also, on the authority of Asmaa the daughter of Abu Bakr El Sedik: I was the fourth wife (among four) of al-Zabayr Ibn al-Awwam. Whenever he became angry at one of us he struck us with a hook rod until it was broken. This hemistich was composed by al-Zabayr: If it were not for her children, I would have hit her. The command to scourge women is repeated in Sahih al-Bukhari, The Sound Tradition of al-Bukhari (Vol. 7, p. 100). Ponder for a moment over Muhammad’s order to the husband: Hang up your scourge where your wife can see it. This is intimidation and threat, as if a husband were telling his wife: Beware of disobedience, for this is the scourge which is ready to fall upon you! There is no security or love in Muhammad’s words or in the deeds of al-Zobayer Ibn al-Awwam, who was a relative of Muhammad, one of his companions, and one of those models whom every Muslim imitates and vies with all over the world. He was one of the ten whom Muhammad assured of paradise and one of the six whom Umar recommended for the Caliphate. This man used to scourge his wife until the wooden hook was broken, as Asmaa (the daughter of Abu Bakr El Sedik who was one of his four wives) tells us. Is there greater wife abuse than that?
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:31:19 +0000
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