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This article explores how [[Wife Beating|wife-beating]] is promoted in the [[Qur'an]] and [[Hadith]]s, along with commentary from Muslim scholars, [[Muslim Statistics|statistics]] on wife beating in the Muslim world, and common apologetic arguments made by Muslims and [[Refutations|responses]] to them.

The beginning:

The "beat them" part:

The root of the word وَٱضْرِبُوهُنَّ (''wa-driboo-hunna'') is ضرب (d-r-b). The letter ٱ (''alif waslah'') [[Arabic_letters_and_diacritics#Special_alif_diacritics|is not pronounced]] here but if it was without the و (''-wa'', meaning "and") prefix and at a beginning of a speech it would be read as "i", so the word would be "'''i'''driboohunna" (ٱضْرِبُوهُنَّ).  

There are many other words, derived from this root, with a similar meaning, used in the Qur'an:

The word "lighly" does not appear in the original Arabic version and it is only added by some translators.

In summation, we find in the Hadiths:

#Muhammad at first forbade the beating of Muslim women, but was persuaded to allow it when Umar warned that the men were losing control of their wives

#Muhammad allowed some of his prominent companions to hit women and slap his own wives (the very women whom all Muslims adore and refer to as "the Mother of believers"

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