Discussion of Limits on Wife Beating and Family Reconciliation

It is a type of hitting that is meant

to alert the woman

that the family’s life is in danger. To alert the woman that our marital

relationship

is threatened. So pay attention, pay attention so that this family does

not face ruin and destruction,

so that our children are not affected and she is not affected and our future is

not affected. Then after that,

it means symbolic hitting. If it is real hitting, it has conditions and

criteria, meaning… starting with the intention, the intention is not revenge

and not harm. So then, Dr. Ziyad, are there guidelines for this matter?

Yes, yes, there are indeed guidelines. First, your aim must be reform

and preserving this life. Second, if you hit,

avoid places of harm,

the face and vital spots and so on, and it must be hitting that is not

severe beating, which means it is not revenge beating. This is your wife,

as they say it should be… I mean, we have all heard,

we hear in the proverb,“ A lover’s beating is like raisins.” A husband’s beating

of his wife, if it happens, should be the

beating of a lover of his beloved.

Imagine with me what the hitting of someone who loves is like,

A father hitting his son, a mother hitting

her daughter when she makes a mistake.— Disciplinary hitting.— Yes.

And not retaliatory hitting,

but for the purpose of reform and to alert the wife in the case of…

Meaning in the case of her mistake and in the case of her not

responding to advice and to separation in bed. As they say,

the last resort is cauterization. So I say this is the verse for preserving

married life. The verse for preserving

the family.