Following the brutal murder of Aasiya Zubair, renewed attention has been paid to the position of Islam on domestic violence. In response, here is a sermon by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, recorded on February 20, 2009 in San Jose, California.
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf is founder of the California-based Zaytuna Institute.
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With all due respect to Shaykh Hamza, a large section of classical Islamic jurisprudence sanctions domestic violence. Unless somebody has the courage to come out with this fact and deal with it, I don’t expect the problems of domestic violence in the Islamic world to disappear.
Many people claim that Prophet Muhammad never hit any of his wives. This also appears to not be true, at least on one occasion: http://salafiburnout.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/on-striking-a-wife/
Again, it’s great that Shaykh Hamza has adopted the revisionist translation here but one has to deal with the weight of history if one wants a culture to change.
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