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[quote]Just wanted to add that I do find anajee's thesis regarding the word 'Daraba' plausible and I believe that this is Muhammad Asad's rendering of phrase as well.

Also, since we are discussing alternative linguistic renderings of this verse, I remeber hearing the erudite Shabbir Ally offer comment on these ayah and he gave an altogether novel (and surprising) rendition. According to him the adressee of the verse in question is not the individual husband (in relation to his wife) but rather the community as a whole, and that they have been commanded to seclude and as a last resort lightly beat rebellious sexually immoral women (and men?...I don't remember much from this talk) anyhow, I'll stop now before I do more violence to his intresting interpretation. I may have fudged the points he was making, but what I do remember specifically is that he felt it was linguistically innacurate to assume that the Quran is addressing individual men...and he rejected wife beating entirely. I halven't the arabic credentials to judge the accuracy of this, but I will say that I was very surprised by brother Shabbir.

Edited by: locust on Wednesday, July 07, 2004 4:17 AM[/quote]

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