men are in charge of women
by right of what allah has given one
over the other
and what they spend for maintenance from
their wealth
so righteous women are devoutly obedient
guarding in the husband's absence what
allah would have them guard
but those wives from whom you fear
arrogance
first advise them then if they persist
forsake them in bed and finally strike
them
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how would you feel if the majority of
your country thought that
men are allowed to beat their wives for
several reasons like burning the food
going out without permission not wearing
the proper
clothes not obeying men and so on how
would you feel if you were that woman
you would probably be fed up with all of
that and seek your way out of this
what if you couldn't because domestic
violence is
the tradition the culture that's the
norm what if there is no possibility for
you to escape
that might sound like horror to you but
in other parts of the world
that is the reality let's come to
another topic that is widely discussed
in the west
especially between critics of islam and
apologists for islam
wife beating in islam whenever i talk
about a topic i want to take examples
from the quran and the hadees
in this case we have both of them and i
want to go by a very important verse
this first our first and most important
source in this video
is the following quran verse that makes
everything crystal clear
men are in charge of women by right of
what allah has given one over the other
and what they spend for maintenance from
their wealth
so righteous women are devoutly obedient
guarding in the husband's absence what
allah would have them guard
but those wives from whom you fear
arrogance first advise them
then if they persist forsake them in bed
and finally strike them
but if they obey you once more seek no
means against
them indeed allah is ever exalted and
gran
quran chapter 4 34.
i read the quran three times as a muslim
the first time was a bit shocking and i
questioned a lot of things
but i just kept reading the second time
took a bit longer and i thought a bit
more about the verses the third time was
when everything was falling apart
in all three times whenever i came to
this verse
it bothered me so much then that when i
was finished with the chapter
i would still think about this i looked
it up in different translations i tried
to look at explanations
i went to the arabic quran and started
to study the word the root word
but the result is is said crystal clear
it says strike them in one translation
beat them in another one scourge them
some add explanations like lightly or if
it is useful
or if nothing else helps but the point
remains
strike them of course some could say
that it is in the quran but that most
muslims probably don't approve of it
right that's what we would think in the
innocent west
well a survey supported by unicef made
in 2011
shows us that 92 percent of women in
afghanistan
i repeat of women in afghanistan think
that a husband can beat his wife
for multiple reasons and that it is
justified unfortunately the same survey
hasn't been done in all muslim countries
that's where we can look at a pure
research which reveals
that the majority of muslims think that
a woman should almost
always or always obey her husband
i like to mention turkey at such a point
because turkey is a
rusty bridge between the west and islam
and in turkey
sixty percent of the population agrees
that a woman should all
always or almost always obey her husband
sixty percent in turkey one would
suggest that those are living a wrong
or distorted form of islam but isn't
that very unlikely
i will come to that specific point in a
separate video let's come back to
sources
some apologists in the west claim that
the verse is misunderstood
and that wife-beating is either not
mentioned not allowed
or a bit difficult those who claim that
it is either not mentioned or not
allowed
talk about different things like that
the root word
which uh translates here to strike them
actually means something different
that it means separate with them
entirely
i don't even want to go into discussions
about different meanings and stuff like
that i made a short video about that
before
you can go to that video either right
now or at the end of this video
there are also others who justify the
first and who make explanations
like these only if she commits adultery
the punishment for adultery is a
completely
different punishment the punishment for
adultery is
death and we can find that again in
islamic sources
beating is allowed but only lightly yes
some hadees
i will link them below in the
description say that the beating should
be lightly
and that no marks should be left what's
the point
it's allowed to chastise women but it
should be done lightly so it's not so
bad that's the point
what the quran enables wife beating
sorry there is no excuse for that
women need discipline well yes from a
muslim perspective
but who disciplines men women
of course not that's forbidden another
explanation and deflection
is that muhammad said a good man doesn't
beat his wife
well that's not what he said the source
that those people are referring to
explains that muhammad allows wife
beating the source tells us that omar
a later khalifa and friend of muhammad
came to muhammad and told him
that women have become emboldened
towards their husbands
he the prophet gave permission to beat
them
then many women came around the family
of the messenger of allah
complaining against their husbands so
the messenger of allah
said many women have gone around
muhammad's family complaining against
their husbands
they are not the best among you and
that's it
he only said they are not the best among
you what awesome
he also allowed in multiple sources i
will link
them all below to beat wives and he did
it himself
that's where we come to the next point
another claim
made by people is that muhammad never
beat his wives
wives wives
well let's look at what aisha muhammad's
favorite wife
and child bride said about that the
hadith explains very longly that
muhammad once went out of the house
and aisha woke up and followed him out
of the house
then she went back in and mohammed saw
her when she was going back in
in the relevant part of this hadith
aisha
says that muhammad struck aisha on the
chest and she felt pain
and then muhammad said did you think
that allah and this apostle would deal
unjustly with you
as you see in terms of women's rights
there is nothing to defend about islam
from a western world view where we have
gender equality
some people stepping in public and
ignorantly
saying islam is the most feminist
religion
does not change the fact that in islam
women are considered second-class humans
whom you can take four off or you can
beat
who can be chastised and who are
considered dumb
so feminism and islam hand in hand
i will talk more about that in another
separate video
on the status of women in islam and it
is very hard to understand why a woman
would want to convert to islam
which happens very very very rarely
that's like a free person converting to
slavery for now this is enough thank you
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and spread the word
about what the religion of peace really
is
because we have freedom of speech and we
should be able to use it
we will see each other in another video
thank you for watching again and stay
away from islam
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