How is it possible to beat a person with a tooothpick or miswak?

Question

I am asking in reference to the alleged wife-beating verse.I know that by telling'beat with a toothpick' we are implying to beat lightly.But how lightly can it be to use anything other than toothpick as to produce the same effect?

Salam

Answer 1

Miswak does not mean to beat them with a tooth brush, it just means to refrain from sexual intercourse, it is a sin to hit your wife and the Holy Prophet (s) said, do not hit your wives even with a twig of a basil leaf.

Answer 2

well a gentle pinch on the cheek does stuff.

Answer 3

Not unless you jab the toothpick in.  Ouch!

The best interpretation of that ayat is from the practise of the Prophet (p).  He never raised his hands on any of his wives.

For those tribal insecure men who feel the need to get physical to communicate with their tribal insecure women, the Qur'an restricts any physical impact to be symbolic.

I for one can never imagine raising my hands on a woman, much less my own wife.

Answer 4

many word are missing from the Quran and it is heavily editorialized

It doesnt say miswak

3:34.  

Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allâh has made one of them to excel the other, and because they spend (to support them) from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient (to Allâh and to their husbands), and guard in the husband's absence what Allâh orders them to guard (e.g. their chastity, their husband's property, etc.). As to those women on whose part you see ill­conduct, admonish them (first), (next), refuse to share their beds, (and last) beat them (lightly, if it is useful), but if they return to obedience, seek not against them means (of annoyance). Surely, Allâh is Ever Most High, Most Great.  

Answer 5

It's not a "tooth pick", but a Siwaak which is about the length of a pen or pencil. It's not a "beat" but it's a tap which does not leave a mark or break the skin.

It's not a beat as in a violent blow as some people ignorantly try to claim, but as the Prophetic Sunnah shows us, it is a light tapping which shows the husbands discontent with his wife and the seriousness of the matter.

Most Muslims are not following the Interpretation of the Sahaabah, so they keep messing up.

Imaam al-Aajurree also recorded in his ash-Sharee'ah from Imaam al-Awzaa'ee that he said:

اصبر نفسك على السنة ، وقف حيث وقف القوم ، وقل بما قالوا ، وكف عما كفوا عنه ، واسلك سبيل سلفك الصالح ؛ فإنه يسعك ما وسعهم

((Patiently restrict yourself to the Sunnah, stop where the people have stopped, and say with what they said, and stop with what they stopped with, and tread the path of your salaf as-Saalih, for they stopped with what is sufficient))