{"id":6754,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/the-right-to-beat-wives\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:28","slug":"the-right-to-beat-wives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/the-right-to-beat-wives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right To Beat Wives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I  am an Arab woman. I have found that you have mentioned on you website  that husbands are allowed to beat their wives. I believe that this right  is conditional. A husband can only validly punish his wife when she has  committed adultery. Here again the husband has been advised to first  counsel his wife wisely, then, at the second step, confine her in a  room. If she does not correct herself then she can be mildly punished so  that the beating does not leave a mark on her body. One wonders how  brazenly ignore the divine laws and teach people what is not in  accordance with the divine injunctions.<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>I  am sorry I could not understand how permission to beat the spouse  relates only to the wife who commits zina? This is because there is  nothing in the text which restricts the words of the verse to that  meaning. I understand you must have a sound basis of your claim and am  eager to learn if it has been missed by many Muslim scholars. I have  learnt that if the wife commits zina and the crime is proved then the  couple is separated. The Shari&#8217;ah requires that a chaste partner may not  remain in wedlock with an unchaste spouse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-02<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6754\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I  am an Arab woman. I have found that you have mentioned on you website  that husbands are allowed to beat their wives. I believe that this right  is conditional. A husband can only validly punish his wife when she has  committed adultery. Here again the husband has been advised to first  counsel his wife wisely, then, at the second step, confine her in a  room. If she does not correct herself then she can be mildly punished so  that the beating does not leave a mark on her body. One wonders how  brazenly ignore the divine laws and teach people what is not in  accordance with the divine injunctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1173,1162],"tags":[2559,1696,1238],"class_list":["post-6754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morals-and-morality","category-social-issues","tag-beating","tag-husband","tag-wife"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Right To Beat Wives - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/the-right-to-beat-wives\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Right To Beat Wives - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am an Arab woman. 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