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[quote]Assalamu Alaykum

Ummjuwayriyah, thank you for your post.

I appreciate the references you gave, however I am quite familiar with what the directive to "admonish rebbellious wives lihgtly" means and am not confused in this respect. Infact your post accuratley sums up the position taken by most scholars throughout history on this directive.

Ultimatley, I don't see my main argument being addressed by anyone yet, I'll recap it.

First off let me say that what I'm arguing is of little consequence as no important scholar has[b]ever[/b] said that a muslim man should 'beat' his wife in the same sense that "beat" is commonly understood today(harsh and physically painful).

Regardless though (and this is my argument), we find that the prophet(saws) refrained from hitting his wives, we also see that the Quran takes into account regularly the social circumstances of the time and as such (for example) an institution as morally reprehensible as slavery is not outlawed in clear terms. Does this silence mean that Allah(swt) codones slavery? of course not astaghfirullah. A careful reading of the Quran makes it clear though that believers are [b]encouraged[/b] to manumit their slaves and to treat them well. During the prophet's(saws) time women were seen almost as slaves, in the sense that they were owned by their husbands, and as I've written in most of my posts above, the Quran improved their situation immensely.

Once again I ask, since beleivers have been encouraged to make a light admonition a last resort(during a time when a man could conceivably do far worse with his women) is it not possible that the time for physical admonition of rebellious wives (however light) is over as no one can deny that the time for slavery is over?

I'm hoping someone can address this question as this is my real point.

Jazak'allah[/quote]

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