[Quranic Reflection]: Women have the right to state their own rights in the marriage

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

One of the most misconception about the Quran that it allowed 'husbands' to beat a wife that beat the husband; but it didn't give the wife any mechanism to fight back if the husband commit tyranny against the wife.

But this verse states explicitly that a contract can be written between the husband and the wife that force the husband to fix his ways:

Sura 4, The Quran:
https://quran.ksu.edu.sa/index.php?l=en#...rans=en_sh

( 128 )   And if a woman fears from her husband contempt or evasion, there is no sin upon them if they make terms of settlement between them - and settlement is best. And present in [human] souls is stinginess. But if you do good and fear Allah - then indeed Allah is ever, with what you do, Acquainted.

A wife can indeed make her husband not beat her for no reason or take her money with this settlement; and if a husband broke the wife's rules then he get punished with whatever she wrote in the contract of marriage.

In other words; the contract of marriage should include both the rights of the husband and the rights of the wife. And by verse 128 of Sura 4 the wife can state whatever rights she wants from the husband.

It says they CAN make a settlement between them. But nowhere does it say that the husband has to agree to any such settlement - he can simply go on beating her with no repercussions. 

Irish women had it better hundreds of years before the Quran was written than a lot of Muslim women have it today.

Boru