Investigation of Beating a Disobedient Woman and Its Levels and Its Punitive Effects According to the Verses of the Qur'an and the Rule of Forbidding the Evil

Abstract

Some thinkers take a superficial look at the original sources of the Islamic religion and causes much criticism toward the Islamic view on women's rights. According to them, there are verses and narratives that show the wrong and inhumane treatment of Islam toward women. One of the issues of criticism was toward some verses of the Holy Qur’an, such as verse 34 of Surah an-Nisāʼ, which authorized the punishment of a woman by a man. Collecting the materials in this article is library-based and their processing is descriptive and analytical. In this article, by referring to the existing verses and hadiths, we found that according to the rational and narrative reasons, the permission to beat women without relying on the above verse and relying on the reasons for the necessity of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil can be proved. Of course, beating is the last level of fulfilling the rule of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil, which includes giving the permission to a man for beating a woman. And if the reasons of the permission to beat violates enjoining the good and forbidding the evil, considering the explicitness of the verse of Nushūz in the permission to beat woman by man, it can be considered as one of the exceptions and outside the scope of the ruling that says it is necessary to obtain permission of the religious ruler.