The Islamic Emancipation of Women

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<i>Originally posted by SisterJennifer </i><b>If a wife commits some serious offense (she is drinking heavily, out all night, etc...)  The husband has a right to be upset about that.  So he has steps to take to solve the problem:</b>

The first step is to sit down and voice his concerns to his wife, and get some dialoge going on the problem.  Hopefully a solution will be reached.

If the problem persists or worsens, the second step is to sleep apart from her, something like a cooling off period.

And the third step is to strike her lightly.  He cannot strike her face, and it should not leave a mark, as you said.  It has more to do with the emotional effect it causes rather than a show of physical force.

This is all I can tell to the best of my knowledge on this topic.

All well and good SisterJennifer, but I view the last part as the husband's "get out of jail free" card when facing charges of domestic abuse. The scenario being that the the husband goes to court, says to the judge, "I tried to reason with her your judgeness (or whatever) that didn't work so I slapped around a bit". The judge says "Alright then, you did the best you could, she was asking for it."

Or am I reading too much into it ?