Wife Beating in Islam - The Rules.

Is there such a thing as a "correct" way of beating your wife?

 

This short (1 minute) clip supposedly explains the "correct" way of beating your wife.

 

 

Infact one of most religious city of Turkey(Konya) have a  social place for man who fleed their women.

 

To Morticia, despite the differences of interpretting the verse between me and Seko, we both agreed that beating as in the English usage does not apply here. Darab in Arabic has so many meanings that Seko chose to take the meaning of word usage (though I disagreed that it was not one of the meaning of Darab) and I chose to look into what was its application by the prophet as I think he understood it better. The only usage I found was using his Miswak (tooth cleaning stick) to tap on his wife. So technically it is not beating, but at the same time, it is the maximum expression of anger a spouse can express (Basically, if you have reached the boiling point, you cannot go beyond the taping (contemporary American states laws separate a light and harmless tap or strike from "abuse" in the legal sense). Without that Hadith, the limit will be vague (due to the multiple meaning of Darab) and its application might range from people who refuse the usage of the word (Darab) to those who take the aggressive meaning of (Darab).

I personally, In my humble opinion, think the Hadith is very important were it cut the door for aggressive interpretation of Darab.

Seko had an interesting insight, I either leave him to express it or the link I provided above will direct you to this posts.