The Abusive Book

 Bijla Singh

Introduction

Quran is filled with verses that establish men’s superiority over women and degrade women to the level of personal property. While men have the complete authority to beat their wives in addition to treating them like a sex-toy and a field to be ploughed, women on the other hand are nothing more than sex servants of their husbands. Focus of this article is to examine the verse 4:34 which clearly not only insults and degrades women but deprives them of equality, freedom and basic human rights. Muslims have made many unsuccessful attempts to soften the tone of 4:34 by providing some “rational” interpretation and introducing “unwritten conditions” which must preexist before men could exercise their “right” of beating. One of such attempt is made by Muslims on “Sikhism-Islam Interfaith” site. They claim that verse 4:34 and the likes have been “misinterpreted” or taken out of context by anti-Islam scholars for the sake of “demonizing” Islam. Such claim is a pure speculation and far from the truth. We shall prove in this article that this verse of Quran is anything but civil and holy.

According to Yusuf Ali (a Muslim scholar) the translation of 4:34 is as follows:

Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband's) absence what Allah would have them guard. As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (Next), refuse to share their beds, (And last) beat them; but if they return to obedience, seek not against them Means: For Allah is Most High, great (above you all). (Quran, 4:34)

Though the translation above is self-explanatory and very straight forward to be understood by any sane person, it is only the lunacy of brainwashed Muslims that the meanings are twisted, misconstrued and illogically explained for the purpose of defending the backward religion of an illiterate person and unholy abusive laws of Quran.

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