Unless your a pussy... :\ lol pussys....
LMAO 17th. If you read my long post (where I got carried away
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) you will see near the bottom that I addressed this very issue. Muslim men that I meet all feel that anyone that hits their wife is a pussy. It is pride thing, they do not see hitting the weaker sex as a manly thing to do and accept that only cowards and bullies do this.
I am not trying to defend wife beating under any circumstances, hell if I saw a man really hit his wife you can be damn sure I would pick up something heavy and make him see what it feels like to be bullied. Yet if I see him hit her with a peacock feather I am unlikely to take the same action.
I was just trying to explain what this verse is actually telling us, it is about a process of punishment. The first being have a go at her, the second being hurt her pride by not sharing her bed for a month and lastly beat her with a toothbrush. I am not being flippant there,
the Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) when asked about this verse said you should beat your wife with this and held up a tooth cleaning stick (we still use them in Egypt, it is about 6 inches long and comes from a certain tree). How do you beat someone up with a toothbrush????
I liken it to the adultery issue. I would argue all day about the given punishment but whether it is lashes or stoning to death you would have to be humping naked in the town square to actually fulfil the requirements to receive the punishment. So too with this issue, to allow a husband to beat his wife with a toothbrush she would have to repeatedly refuse to stop being a tart, her husband would have to love her so much he was still prepared to forgive her and she would have rejected the advice of Allah, her husband, her family, friends and Imam. Unless she is mentally unstable (in which case you are not allowed to give punishments) no woman I have met would go this far, therefore there should never be a need for such action.
Look at this:
The Prophet (peace be on him) once, when angry with his servant, mentioned to him, saying, 'If it were not for the fear of retaliation on the Day of Resurrection, I would have beaten you with this miswak (tooth-cleaning stick)' [as reported by Ibn Majah and by Ibn Hibban, in his Sahih].
I already gave a quote where the Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) asked the Muslim men 'would you beat your wife like your servant then lie with her at night?'. If the Prophet refused to even beat his servant with such a stick then how could it be ok to beat up your wife? It simply is not. It is yet another issue of Islam saying one thing and some Muslims using it to satify their moronic views and desires. However I am not going to sit and say the Quran does not say this, as it clearly does but with many issues its meaning needs to be understood.
See what I am saying?