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[quote]As-Salaamu Alaykum!
I would like to draw your attention to the same ayah that you quoted.(An-Nisa`a; ayah 34). The word the everyone uses to justify beating women is totally taken out of context. It comes from the Arabic root 'Daraba' which not only means to physically beat, but also to go away from or leave. The way the word is used in the ayah, it becomes 'Idribuhunna'. If one where to consult a modern Arabic/English dictionary, one would see that this word is a command in the fourth tense of the verb. To quote from the Hans Weir Dictionary of Modern Arabic this word means to leave, abandon or forsake. In enlightened terms, separation. Some say that this word'Daraba' means specifically to strike. Look in the same surah at ayah 101, and you will see the same word in the Arabic as 'Darabtum'. In this ayah, Allah, ta`ala, is commanding the believers that when they going out(daraba) in the land and they feel that they are threatend and unsafe, they should not all pray at once. Do you think that Allah, ta`ala, is saying when they 'beat at the Earth' that they should be cautious? Of course not! All ayah should be taken into TOTAL context to see what Allah, Ta`ala, is trying to impart to the believers. And Allah is Well Aquainted with all that we do.[/quote]

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