Book review continued:
WALLACE TOM Jr. (2015) Refuting Islam, The Christian Patriots Guide to Exposing the Evils of Islam, Bellingham, Fundamental Publishers.
This will be a quite controversial section from Mr. Wallace's book, but please remember I am reviewing his text, while at the same time attempting to document from primary sources with English translations, the Qur'an and the Sunnah.
Primary Islamic law and scripture is found within the law (s) from the Qu'ran and/or the Sunnah. (58).
Mr. Wallace states that in Islam beating a disobedient wife is consistent with what the Qur'an teaches. (88). Again I will go to the Qur'an and let it speak for itself, of course translated into English.
Quote:
The Noble Qur'an
Qur'an: Surah 4: 34
SAHIH INTERNATIONAL
Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband's] absence what Allah would have them guard. But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance - [first] advise them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them. But if they obey you [once more], seek no means against them. Indeed, Allah is ever Exalted and Grand.
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Based on this English translation, wife bearing within orthodox, fundamentalistic Islam, reads as an intellectual, theological, worldview possibility. Although if striking the wife does not work, the husband is to seek no means against them. But how many times will a wife have been struck and how much physical damage done? What happens to a supposed continually disobedient wife?
I reason there is plenty of room with this Scripture for religious, culturally based interpretation and action.
