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One Hindu friend happened to tell me something in a local Indian language (Hindi, no prizes here and there is no language like INDIAN also.. ) once which goes like this.
"Islam allows stoning to death for the married woman if she has committed adultery. So much for Islamic mercy and tolerance!"
In Islam, justice and morality comes first. Right? Indecency and injustice (like what happened to Iraq and Afganistan) shoudnt have a place in the best way of life.. Right?
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"If you do judge, judge between them justly. God loves the just."
(Our'an: 5:42)
"O You who believe! Be upholders of justice, bearing witness for God alone, even against yourselves or your parents and relatives. Whether they are rich or poor, God is well able to look after them. Do not follow your own desires and deviate from the truth. If you twist or turn away, God is aware of what you do."
(Qur'an, 4:135)
(Our'an: 5:42)
"O You who believe! Be upholders of justice, bearing witness for God alone, even against yourselves or your parents and relatives. Whether they are rich or poor, God is well able to look after them. Do not follow your own desires and deviate from the truth. If you twist or turn away, God is aware of what you do."
(Qur'an, 4:135)
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A Swiss friend of mine, who reads the Quran, was very agitated with a specific verse that says "beat them(women)"...
the verse refers to [Qur’an, 4:3]
Quran is an old book written by a medival man to control other people. If you believe every crap that is written there no one can save you! Open your mind, read a lot of books, Think for yourself!
Dear Anonymous,
write me a book like it and then i will believe in what you say...
read a lot of books? why the other books are not written by people(as you claim the Quran to be, though it was never written by the Prophet)?
Medieval? honestly, are we better now? you will be medieval some day and so will those lots of books you suggest people reading..
you open your mind, and think of the possibilities of a life you never thought possible, because you'd rather use your 5 senses without intellect...
medieval men are what shaped today..and this science of a world you know of today, it's shaped by medieval men who believed in the old book called the Quran because they used your common sense, and saw that an illiterate man who didnt have much access to the other world could never write or propose ideas that hundreds of years later science would prove right..
that illiterate medieval man, could never propose economic ideas, war strategies, and lead people and win their hearts without believing in what he preached,
a medieval man would not all of a sudden fear a God and not change his ideas even if the whole world was against him..
that medieval man is dead, but not are his followers, because we don't follow him, we follow the God who made him..
open your mind and look at the signs of God within you and around you..that eye of yours which is reading this, could never be created by chance, so perfect, so intricate and so beautiful..
there are some people who counter the fact of the greatness of the message in the Quran that no man can create by saying he must be possessed..if he's possessed, bingo you've once again proved the existence of a world unseen..and if there is a devil, there is also a God which created this invisible devil..
so i challenge you, write a similar book..
Harsh laws are set to deter others from doing nasty forbidden acts that harm the community at large. Adultery is not just immoral, in the sense of injustice, disloyalty, and dishonesty between a husband and wife, but also scars the lives of children born to an adulterer or adulteress. Prevention is better than cure, and by right nobody would want to be an adulterer or lead anybody they love into adultery, knowing the eventual punishment in this world is death and in the hereafter the punishment is worse.
It is a necessity for Islam to protect the community, and in this case it requires punishing the not-so-innocent individual who brought harm to the community. Besides, the Islamic Laws are so detailed and careful, that it is made sure that the accused is definitely an adulterer or adulteress before such a penalty is done.
It is said in the Quran it maybe that something we despise very much might bring us good, and from our experience we do know that it is true at times, and personally, I hate war very much, I hate causing pain even to people who hurt me so much, that I would not even dare tell them I am hurt by their actions, so I wont hurt them. But we do know that in the case of war, it is a necessity at times to punish tyrants and free the oppressed. And we also do know, that telling the truth and facing it, is better than living in a lie.
In the case of wife-beating, it is a last resort in the verse. And I am a woman, and there’s nothing I’d despise more than a man oppressing a woman. But does slapping a woman necessarily be oppressing her? Don’t parents slap us or hit us (on the limbs or other harmless places) when we make mistakes? Don’t our brothers and sisters and even friends slap us or punch us when they see us acting like fools? And don’t those thundering slaps bring us to sense, at least sometimes? Psychologically, they do bring us to senses; I personally know cases of this. Well, a husband is supposed to be somebody close to us, and somebody we love, and then don’t husbands get the same right we give to people less close to us such as friends, who snap us back to reality to prevent further damage? We are humans, so don’t say that you don’t need people to snap you back to reality.
I don’t believe in violence but you don’t have to hit violently, there is a story of a sick prophet who’s wife responded rudely to him at sometime and he vowed that when he gets better he will hit her many time. When he got better however, his love for her and his truthfulness made him worried, so God told him to collect straws the same number as the amount he vowed to hit her, and hit her once with them. And so he didn’t have to hurt her at all, and it wasn’t painful at all.
Again, we are humans and how we interpret the verses of the Quran might be misleading since we don’t know the reasons behind the descent of a verse (asbab ul-nuzul).
If you don’t believe a woman should ever be hit, you can put it down in your marriage papers, before you get married as a condition. Why not?
And once more, hitting a wife is a last resort, and it is only when the wife is wrong, not just because the wife disagrees with the husband. Justice first.:)
Thanks for the wonderful Comment sania.. :)
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