Originally Posted by
jafar00
Then there is no point in debating the point any further if you stop at using an English interpretation of a word that can have 10 different meanings. One of which is separation which is supported by the verses after (oh context is a bitch) which talk about how to deal with separation or divorce.
Nice diversion, but I have already posted extensively about this in another thread. Try going back 1500 years to call all the Kings, Queens and Noble paedophiles for marrying young. It was the custom AT THE TIME. I'm not going to say that again if you won't listen.
Since there are other verses saying do not beat your wife, and hadiths to support not beating your wife, there is more evidence to say that wife beating is forbidden than evidence to support beatings. However the subject has still been debated and if you were to do it, it should be done with a small stick the size of your finger, without harming her and not on the face.
Try it now. Tap yourself on the arm with a pencil.........
Did it hurt?