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[quote][quote] [b][hl]Adribu (Arabic root – daraba)[/hl][/b]

The word translated as slap/hit/beat derives from the Arabic root daraba. In fact, daraba can be translated in over a hundred different ways……………………...
As it happens, words derived from this same root occur no less than 58 times in the Qur’an, and are used in different contexts in ways that can be ambiguous and open to widely different translations into English. [b][hl]In none of these other places is it used or translated in the sense of to hit, strike or beat.[/hl][/b] ……………………...[/quote]

In addition to 4: 34, here are some of the verses of the Koran which clearly show the meaning of dharaba as [b]beating and no other.[/b]

2: 60 وَإِذِ اسْتَسْقَى مُوسَى لِقَوْمِهِ فَقُلْنَا اضْرِبْ بِعَصَاكَ الْحَجَرَ فَانْفَجَرَتْ مِنْهُ اثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ عَيْنًا قَدْ عَلِمَ كُلُّ أُنَاسٍ مَشْرَبَهُمْ كُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا مِنْ رِزْقِ اللَّهِ وَلا تَعْثَوْا فِي الأرْضِ مُفْسِدِينَ
60: 2 And remember Moses prayed for water for his people; We said: &quot;Strike [b][red](adhrib)[/red][/b] the rock with your staff.&quot; Then gushed forth there from twelve springs. Each group knew its own place for water. So eat and drink of the sustenance provided by Allah, and do no evil nor mischief on the (face of the) earth.

8: 12 إِذْ يُوحِي رَبُّكَ إِلَى الْمَلائِكَةِ أَنِّي مَعَكُمْ فَثَبِّتُوا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا سَأُلْقِي فِي قُلُوبِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا الرُّعْبَ فَاضْرِبُوا فَوْقَ الأعْنَاقِ وَاضْرِبُوا مِنْهُمْ كُلَّ بَنَانٍ
12: 8 Remember your Lord inspired the angels (with the message): &quot;I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite [b][red](adhrabu)[/red][/b]  ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.&quot;

38: 44 وَخُذْ بِيَدِكَ ضِغْثًا فَاضْرِبْ بِهِ وَلا تَحْنَثْ إِنَّا وَجَدْنَاهُ صَابِرًا نِعْمَ الْعَبْدُ إِنَّهُ أَوَّابٌ
44: 38 &quot;And take in thy hand a little grass, and strike [b][red](adhrib)[/red][/b]  therewith: and break not (thy oath).&quot; Truly We found him full of patience and constancy. How excellent in Our service! ever did he turn (to Us)!

[b][hl]Further, please read 38: 44 (Suad): Here One of Allah’s apostle Ayub (peace be upon him) was ordered by Allah (the exalted) to beat his wife.

So 38: 44 also supports that Islam does allow Husbands beating Wives (4:34). But surely as a last resort.[/hl][/b][/quote]

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