Ali Dawah - January 29, 2021
IS MARITAL RAPE ALLOWED IN ISLAM? - REACTION VIDEO
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Summary
In this episode, we react to the new phenomena that rape can occur in a marriage, and how this new phenomenon has been promoted by the feminist movement. We also discuss the role of the Quran and the Hadith in this matter.
Transcript
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she went further than that she said if i if it wasn't for the fear of god i would have spat in
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his face can you imagine and you're telling us that this is a man's religion yeah and she's
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going to the prophet of god and saying i would have spat at my husband's face like big flag
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no no no no you know what does the prophet say does the prophet stop her yes how dare you nothing
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does it stop her no no no he must have insulted her no no no hellfire hellfire no no nothing like
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that what what did he say he gave her what she wanted really sex happening without the person's
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consent are you saying that that is wrong yes i'm saying that that is hold on a second bro hold
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on a second there was advocate you as a muslim man with this hair and beard you know a macho man
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your hadith the prophet peace be upon him says yeah that if a man tells his wife to come for intimacy
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and she says no or she refuses to the angels curse her let's see how you get out of this one now
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and dear friends hope you guys are well inshaAllah welcome to this video before we start we want to
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praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the most merciful the most trust or praises glory and gratitude
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belong to him this was not going to be a reaction video but we came across the video and we thought
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you know we might as well react to it because this is what people like listening to let's get straight
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into it so this is about marital rape so this new phenomena this new popularized idea
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that rape can occur in a marriage is something that we're going to be reacting to so we're going
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to get straight into it there's a video and this is actually quite brutal because in here in this
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very specific video the woman actually ends up killing the man let's find out why you ready
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okay let's get straight to the point no time wasting this was a very brutal disturbing case now the
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first thing to mention is forced marriage which is not permissible in some and forcing someone to get
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married on top of that if i'm if i didn't see that wrong was it saying that he got her cousins to rape
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her no i think he he raped her whilst they watched so he called the cousins to hold it down or what
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something like that that's again haram because you know you're showing your wife's aura number one
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oh there's many things about that there's a there's many things that are haram about that but i think
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with this discourse we have to start off with robust definitions okay because that's what we have you
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here in the feminist movement the second wave uh feminist movement there has been some really
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radical definitions of what constitutes rape by the way for example mckinnon katherine mckinnon
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famously actually said that even if the woman consents and says yes that it can still be uh rape
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and i i believe just from listening to jermaine greer in recent times as well this trivialization of
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stranger rape uh because what it is is that when the definitions become so closely knit to
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uh normal intercourse then it trivializes in my opinion you know especially if mckinnon is saying
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that even if the person says yes so if the woman is consenting it's still rape i mean these kind of
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what about the man what if the man's consenting okay good point right uh but the point is these are
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the kind of ridiculous definitions unacceptable definitions which we need to kind of eliminate
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from but we need to explain that they are part of the discourse and have been part of the discourse
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but when we're talking about rape i think that's why i said let's start with robust definitions
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when we're talking about we're talking about without the person's consent we're talking about
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sex happening without the person's consent are you saying that that is wrong yes i'm saying that
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that is hold on a second bro hold on a second let's be there was advocate you know you you as a muslim
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man with this hair and beard you know a macho man uh your hadith the prophet peace be upon him says
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yeah that if a man tells his wife to come for intimacy and she says no or she refuses to the
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angels curse her let's see how you get out of this one now brother let's see how brave you are now
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the angels will curse her but the hadith also says that if he bet one if he sleeps over and he's very
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angry so it's obviously what's the anger caused by the anger is caused by his not getting his way or
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not having sex with the woman because if if the if if if the hadith was instructing him to have
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uh sex then it would would tell him it wouldn't be there'd be nothing for him to be angry about he'd
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be getting his way good point so that's so let's get so that's self-defeating the very hadith actually
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um refutes the contention that islam is some kind of condoning marital rape because the hadith
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itself says that the angels will curse her yeah um so what that should it doesn't say if the hadith said
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you ask your wife to come to the bed she doesn't you better grab her by the head or you rape her
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don't forget this is not saying that this is talking about somebody who's not offering their
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spouse yeah uh sexual assurity right and um and this is what marriage is all about marriage is about
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both partners exploring sexual um relationships yes and if either the man or the woman in islam
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do not give or satisfy the other half then really what they're doing is they're faltering on the on
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the contract yeah uh this kind of sexual frigidity if you want to call it that is really a non-option
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for both parties um otherwise quite frankly they're lacking and deficient of those individuals who do
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that okay let me put this here this was the perspective that i wanted to come from which i
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was just thinking maybe the hikma behind it yeah tell me if i'm wrong let's put this into context
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because when we talk about these kind of things we need to put it in a let's frame it in a way
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yeah in in islamic perspective so let's get this right yeah yeah a muslim man is he allowed to have sex
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outside of marriage no okay we really need to contextualize this because it's very important
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for us to get the context behind it you know there is a muslim man he before getting married he should
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be staying away from woman because it's haram he gets married the right way yes and now he is imagine
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living in the society when you're going out and you are faced with hypersexual society bro come on
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let's be honest i traveled down the a4 or 6 big balance with half naked girls like you only it's in
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your face and then you go to be at the cashier or wherever it may be and you've got a woman who's
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dressed up in a provocative way and you can't even know your gaze to go to the bro social media
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now let's put things into context because people are going to come and say why is the angels cursing
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her let's let's put it into context yeah he comes home he's seen all that madness yeah he's that bro i
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want to go to my wife and you know and there's a hadith of the process that supports it they said if you
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go out and you see something that your desire is inclined go to your wife yeah it doesn't say go to
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someone else go to your wife now now put things in the perspective as a muslim person because it's
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not easy for someone to say oh but who cares um you know like it's an option i can just say you know
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okay i'm going to go to my girlfriend or my side chick and just you know get it doesn't work like
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that as a muslim we're bound by laws god almighty is legislated so therefore you're coming home now
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and your your your wife you want to be intimate with her because you know you have these desires and
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imagine she had the same and she says to you no now let's put the hadith into context
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doesn't isn't that some kind of an oppression towards the husband if we put all that context
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into the frame and say hold on a second here you're actually oppressing that person because
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imagine for example if a wife came to the husband and said i want intimacy isn't that the right of a
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woman that's so much so that a hadith of the prophet peace be upon him that a woman came and said i am
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sexually satisfied did the did the prophet say how dare you as a woman you should not be sexually
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satisfied go back to your husband i don't know if the hadith i'm not sure which one you're referring
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to but the one i know the marriage oh yeah so this hadith is uh if if it wasn't for the fear of
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allah i would have spat in his face yeah but what about the one where that one yeah that i don't
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know that that one that's the one where i know the marriage yeah yeah okay this is interesting look
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look look it's very important for us to emphasize on this yeah well you know why because for the
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islamophobes out there the woman comes to the prophet peace be upon him says he's not sexually
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satisfying me now she said that she didn't say he's not sexually she went further than that she said
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if i if it wasn't for the fear of god i would have spat in his face can you imagine and you're
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telling us that this is a man's religion yeah and she's going to the prophet of god and saying
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i would have spat at my husband's face like big no no no you know why i'm being so graphic here
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because to defeat this whole argument yeah i would have can you imagine the message of allah i would
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have spat at my husband's face oh what does the prophet say does the prophet stop her yes how dare
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you nothing did it stop her no no no he must have insulted her no no no hellfire hellfire no no
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nothing like that what what did he say he gave her what she wanted really i'll give himself i'm
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gonna leave that no but here's here's that's an important point actually i'm happy you raised it
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but there's there is a part of the hadith that people feel uh men and women and everyone feel
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upset about which is the fact that it's talking about a woman it's woman specific in the hadith yeah
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that people need to understand something there are hadiths in the dozens in the dozens that reference men
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only but also apply to women and sometimes they uh reference man only and don't don't even apply
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to women okay if you're truthful so for instance if you're truthful for example there was a famous
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hadith of the prophet was in the masjid yeah and um he was talking and basically he was saying about men
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yeah uh that men the one who a man who go he started off talking about men then he talked about
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women but he started off with a man and he said that a man who has intercourse with his wife a man
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rajul who has intercourse with his wife and then he goes to his friends and starts talking about you
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know sexual positions and what they've done in the bed yeah that this individual is basically like a
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devil refer to him like a devil yeah so that's okay the word man is being used here but if if we want
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to go further there's many hadiths like this i mean the way he's calling a man a devil yeah a specific
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man that is doing a specific thing is like a devil he didn't have to be in the phrasing of
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oh he's cursed but there's still some kind of what you call them or some blame yeah yeah and
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moreover there's hadith for example a man who's like a youth doesn't enter a youth is male specific
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it's a hadith that says allah will not look at him on the day yeah exactly you'll not look at him
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well that's the youth is a man who's cuckold is is is like a translation but it's not really
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it's it's not really a legitimate translation it's a man who doesn't mind his wife having
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intercourse with other men basically or his sister or his mother yeah or yeah his wife or his sister
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or woman focus so this is a man's specific kind of injunction here so they won't enter no one's
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actually coming out and saying why is this hadith think about this for a second exactly why is there
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not groups of people coming out if if if it was gender neutral as they claim it to be right
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exactly why are not groups of men coming out so how come there's no such specific hadith
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equivalent to women for women no you see what i mean exactly because if this day you thing is
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and the the ghira or the protective jealousy is stressed for men then clearly if someone falters
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if a man falters on that then he is punished more so than a woman right yeah so you can get instances
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where because of the weakness of the human being has been created weak some men men physiologically
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biologically or otherwise have certain weaknesses that are different to women and vice versa
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so sometimes there can be a specific hadith that references specific punishments for specific
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genders on specific issues exactly and that can be the case for man or woman exactly but if it was the
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case if it was the case that islam only relegated these specific types of punishments and
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consequences for women apart from men then you'd have a point but i can find you a dozen of hadiths
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that mention i've just given you two or three but i can give you even the hadith which is talking
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about for example for man the word man is used again if a man is entrusted with a secret rajul
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yeah and then he goes back and it's in a manner now it's it's a trust he can't go to but obviously
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this includes women as well yeah so this falls in a category of ahadith which references a man but
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which includes the woman but which a man is mentioned right exactly there's lots of such hadiths
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the fact that women are mentioned doesn't mean that man is now absolved from this in the sense
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that now a man can um not give his wife her sexual rights or otherwise it doesn't mean that exactly
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and like i said before and the hadith that i was talking about specifically which i clarified with
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shaykh abu sofi as well is is the woman who came and said that basically she's not sexually satisfied
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and the prophet and now the marriage so the thing is here and and a woman has a right to ask for
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divorce if she's sexually not yani satisfied and this is islam so hope this dismantles and
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destroys this whole uh discussion on this topic and as you can see guys there are individuals who
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claim that they've lifted left islam because of this but when you deep deeper you realize that
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the issue the issue it's never the issue is never with islam it's with the individual because these
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if you dig deeper you can see that this clicker answer what would you have to say for this you're
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going to ignore it but let me add another point this idea of because we started with this and i think
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it's important to end with it as well which is the point of marital rape i mean if you look at
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books of like kitab al-um of uh chef and i've also seen some treatises and fatawa going all the way
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back to that for imams that rape is punishable by whipping and all these kinds of they mentioned
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that in their books for if at that time they had milky ameen which is like the equivalent of a
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concubine or not even a concubine like a uh um indentured servant let's call them yeah indentured servants
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they had that in that time and they said if you rape an indentured servant that's under your
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property yani then they would be then you should be flogged and a hundred whips and all those kind
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imagine doing it to your wife and obviously the hadith of the prophet is there's no
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harming or reciprocating harm which is a very generic hadith you can't harm if someone if a
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woman doesn't want to have sex with a man okay honestly we're not saying this as as a means of
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apologetics this actually has pastoral implications yeah if your wife don't want to have sex with you
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with all due respect like that woman if she doesn't want to do that for over a span of let's
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say a couple of weeks couple of months let's just say one week two weeks and she has no valid excuse
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let's just say why are you with her still with all due respect if she doesn't want to have intercourse
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with you you're unless there's okay that you're trying to arbitrate you're trying to solve the
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issue but if she's not attracted and she's not like then really what you should be doing instead of
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trying to force yourself and being a macho man all these kinds of things you know what but this
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this kind of marriage is not going to you're right but for you to even say that who said that actually
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happens in the like why has it become a muslim issue where have you heard this like the thing is
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where did you get this from do you see how we're subconsciously yes subconsciously they're the same
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thing but one is for hierarchy we're in the uh with the peasants the the subconscious mind is picked
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up so much that as muslims we have to be like no no but what's it it's not even a muslim problem where
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did you get this from that it's muslim man you know out in the hunt doing this you have a right
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to divorce she can get a divorce guys we're gonna end on that i think we've destroyed this argument i
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don't think anyone can come back yeah it's janazah from sisters hope you guys enjoyed this video
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inshallah share it with your friends and family and those who have been affected by this hadith
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here's your answer may allah bless you guys inshallah thank you hijab thank you very much
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till next time assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh