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'The Hitting Verse'[4,34] explained with context & trajectory; Its Haram to hit women Pt.2

hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school muftis haraam forbidden jahannam jahanam jahannum sura soorah surat suwar soora chapter ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat sahabah sahaba sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat

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certain verses are abrogated certain verses do not carry rulings for today and they are explained so and as is this verse of of the heating I have explained previously in more depth and I will do so in the future that this is an abrogated verse it is haram to hit and this was something that was set through the Prophet through the the prophetic wisdom of trajectory hermeneutics that as time would go it would become Haram hence the students of the Companions like a partner Yoruba declared Haram in

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his own age and this was something that the people before I had mentioned that the people prior to the Profi and even in the prophet's time they lived in a very warrior lifestyle are very kind of they were of warrior people they were like the only thing I can kind of liken them on to is like the kind of Viking lifestyle so if any of you are familiar with the kind of Viking thing it's all about raiding and and take looting people and and this is what the Arabs were like then they weren't a people that were kind of settled then I mean they were settled as in they had their own settlements but they were more just

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a warrior people plan fighting raiding and he was all about that that was all it was about now in their lifestyle the men and the women were generally like that it wasn't just the men everybody was a part of that society so in those kind of societies there were certain things that everybody accepted and that everybody wanted and and even the women in that society felt and that if we do something wrong if he's a real man he ought to hit us now this kind of thing by later standards is is deemed by

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general people unacceptable but they are even today there's people that hold that kind of view so in fact recently there was a Moroccan singer who who kind of gave an interview saying this and she caused a lot of controversy by saying that a real man ought to hit his whip his woman and she was saying not like beat the hell out of but if you've done something wrong now today this is a minority understanding at this kind of worldview black people don't accept that and I don't accept it but I'm saying that in the past especially in warrior cultures people were very

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much like that and the women were like that as well that they felt now the Prophet was faced with this society now so what this what he did was placed he could have tried to say okay let's change everything let's make social changes let's do this but that would have resulted in taking his attention of the mission so what he did is said okay fine let's place parameters on your practices so things can't be harmful and he placed parameters and then said that

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okay because this was something even all people including the women were a part of it so the Prophet said okay can't be serious accompli like this and then he said oh but if any of you were upon true goodness you would never hit and he left it for when this generation and this culture would die out this would become Haram and that's the understanding and this doesn't so use and I'll give you another example the inside Buhari you ever had eat that the Prophet went into a house and he saw an agricultural tool you know the plowing kind of stick that he says Farah

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Arletta he says for a little hath he saw one of these plowing kind of tools and he said that that you know the such a tool does not come in a house except it brings with it misery and it brings with it kind of like a degraded State azul' Alara Kalama Ajo Azul now the problem is that wait a minute Agriculture's awesome why would the prophet be kind of saying this this thing about agriculture because the society in which he lived was a warrior

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society it wasn't an agricultural society now if people started to take a grid-like if they started to get so heavily involved in fields and stuff like this it's awesome but the climate in which they lived they then became a danger to people around them because because the other people around them that engulfed them were all warriors and they would raid them they would kill them they would so this is why the Prophet had to kind of address them with what they needed this wasn't for like us today to say oh my god

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agriculture is bad agriculture is not bad it's awesome the Prophet was not trying to say agriculture is bad and if not sure explains this if not shoot the legend the share full Islam of his time and the Grand Mufti of the Maliki explains this in his comment on his footnotes on Sahil Buhari saying that this hadith was because of this otherwise the Prophet was not averse or did not have an issue with agriculture so it's important to understand these kind of points before we go on and acto who and this was another reason why the Prophet didn't want meant to be wearing

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silk and gold and stuff like this because it didn't suit the warrior lifestyle because it was important for their survival now the Prophet knew in times to come he said that look soon Allah will open up for you the kingdoms and Muslim generations will change and with that many changes will come and this kind of thing will wish will be kind of shared and jettisoned because the culture will change

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, July 15). 'The Hitting Verse'[4,34] explained with context & trajectory; Its Haram to hit women Pt.2 [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hnpfxjxcvum/
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