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‘Striking with the Green branch’ is the Punishment for Immorality: The Prophet of Islam-saww has forbidden husband from beating his wife: Husband is forbidden from beating his Wife Download PDF Critics of Islam allege that a Muslim husband is allowed to beat-up his wife! Surely, that is not the case when we carefully scrutinise the Holy Verses of the Quran which have been misinterpreted.

Allah -azwj Says in Verse 2:187: هُنَّ لِبَاسٌ لَكُمْ وَأَنْتُمْ لِبَاسٌ لَهُنَّ (They are clothing for you and you are clothing for them), so only an insane wouldn’t take a good care of his/her clothes. So, it’s the same Command of Allah -azwj for both the husband and the wife to be together in a cosy relationship, comforting and protecting each other like a comfortable outfit protecting against all hostile weathers, i.e., trials to be faced in various stages of life.

However, prior to separation and calling for mediation, Islam suggests to the husband in order to save his marriage, if he fear his wife is going to rebel, he should caution her, stop intimate relationship and symbolically strike her with a toot-brush (Verses 4:34-35).

The Verse 4:34, is misinterpreted, ‘وَاللَّاتِي تَخَافُونَ نُشُوزَهُنَّ فَعِظُوهُنَّ وَاهْجُرُوهُنَّ فِي الْمَضَاجِعِ وَاضْرِبُوهُنَّ’ (And those whose disobedience you fear, admonish them, and forsake (leave) them in the beds, and beat them .) When it was asked from the 5 th Imam -asws about the interpretation of it, Imam -asws replied: الطبرسي، في معنى الهجر: روي عن أبي جعفر (عليه السلام)، قال: «يحول ظهره إليها» Al-Tabarsy, Regarding the Meaning of and forsake them [4:34] – It has been reported from Abu Ja’far -asws having said: ‘He turns his back to her’.

و في معنى‏ الضرب: روي عن أبي جعفر (عليه السلام): «أنه الضرب بالسواك». And regarding the Meaning of and strike them [4:34] – It has been reported from Abu Ja’far ‑asws having said: ‘ It is the beating with the toothbrush (symbolically)’.

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