Every newlywed couple has their problems adjusting to each other. It’s a give and take and eventually if there’s real love there, the coupe finds a middle ground that both can live with. Marriage, like politics, is the art of compromise. Or as Ann Landers once said, marriages are made in heaven but lived out here on earth.That being said, this strategy of love doesn’t apply to the traditional Muslim male. Compromise is not an option – and he is supported in this view by his imams.
Last month, during a Saudi television show, Muslim author and religious leader Muhammad Al-Arifi advised young Muslim men how to deal with their new wives.
The religious author’s prescription? Beat your wife if she doesn’t do as you say or what is expected of her.
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