Quote:The important thing to know is that the beating is allowed only for a good reason such as to discipline them.
Discipline them?
Oh,so a wife is inferior to her husband,as a child needing to be taught proper behaviour,not an equal? That seems to contradict a basic premise of Islam; the equality of the sexes. There is a technical term here in Australia for men who beat their wives; 'criminals' as such behaviour is felony assault.
My mother had a friend whose husband liked to discipline her too. At mother's suggestion, her friend began taking a hammer to bed and putting it under her pillow, saying nothing. The disciplining ceased.
Hitting any creature,animal or human,weaker than oneself is unmanly and cowardly.
MY parents were married for 60 years. My mother is difficult to live with. My father NEVER hit my mother,ever.Two possible reasons are that dad despised wife beaters and because mum would simply have left.