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 #Admonish her. Give her a verbal warning regarding her behavior.
 #sleep in separate beds from her. This humiliates the woman, for in Islam a woman's worth is measured, in part, by her ability to reproduce offspring, particularly male offspring. Sleeping in a separate bed from the wife dishonors her by limiting her ability to reproduce a male child.
 #Beat them. This is the third, most significant step of the progressive discipline process and is expected to be the one that produces the desired result if the first two failed.
-So the idea of hitting the woman "lightly" with a toothpick as the most severe disciplinary measure loses the argument based simply on the text alone.
+So the idea of hitting the woman "lightly" with a toothpick as the most severe disciplinary measure loses the argument based simply on the text alone. It is also nearly impossible to imagine anything like "metaphorical beating" that apologists claim.
 In the most authoritative biography of Muhammad, written by ibn Ishaq, we find the following words of the prophet of Islam: