கணவன் அடித்தால், மனைவி திருப்பி அடிக்க இஸ்லாமிய தலைவர் ஆலோசனை

பொதுவாக இஸ்லாம் கணவனை மட்டுமே மனைவியை அடிக்க அனுமதிக்கிறது என்ற ஸ்டீரியோடைப்பை உடைத்து, கணவன் அடித்தால் மனைவி திருப்பி போட்டு சாத்தினால் எல்லாம் ஒழுங்குக்கு வந்துவிடும் என்ற கருத்தை ஷியா தலைவர் கிராண்ட் அயோத்துல்லா மொஹம்மது ஹுசேன் ஃபாதுல்லா கூறியுள்ளார்

வாழ்க வாழ்க.

Ayatollah focuses on family advice
By BORZOU DARAGAHILos Angeles Times

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- The ayatollah has a simple piece of advice for any Muslim woman being abused by her husband: Hit him back.

"A woman can respond to physical violence inflicted on her by a man with counter-violence as a self-defense measure," wrote Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanon's most senior Shiite cleric, in a fatwa late in 2007 that shocked conservative Muslims around the world.
Fadlallah long has been considered a leader of the most radical faction of Shiite Muslims in Lebanon. He endorsed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran and was accused of ordering, or at least encouraging, the 1983 bombings of the U.S. Marines barracks here, a charge that he and his supporters have denied.

He issued fatwas, or religious edicts, calling on the faithful to resist the U.S. and urged Muslims to boycott American products.

But the 72-year-old cleric, who agreed to an interview recently in his South Beirut compound, has toned down his rhetoric in recent years. Instead, he espouses a more modest vision for the faithful than the ambitious agenda set forth by Iran, which considers itself the patron of Shiites worldwide.

"I don't see there is a unity in the situation of Shiites in the world," Fadlallah said.

He focuses on issues of concern to his followers, such as parenting.

"One of the general principles in raising children is that parents should not consider their child as part of their possessions," he wrote in a ruling translated and placed on the English section of his Web site, english.bayynat.org.lb.

"Instead, they should consider him God's trust that Allah...has put in their hands. This is done by loving the child, listening to him and respecting his mind."

Grand ayatollahs have the right to interpret primary religious texts and serve as "marja," or source of emulation, for their millions of followers. Khomeini espoused a highly politicized version of Islam; Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in Iraq advocates piety, modesty and good deeds.

Fadlallah's fatwas and statements seem more like daytime talk-show fodder.

On gender issues, he takes positions that raise eyebrows among his conservative counterparts, such as questioning the conventional Islamic prohibition on female judges and challenging the traditional view that a woman's place is in the house and the man's in the workplace.

"The belief that it is disgraceful for the man to manage household tasks is derived from the social culture and not from Islam," according to a statement on his Web site.

A statement from Fadlallah's office said he opposed a man "using any sort of violence against a woman, even in the form of insults and harsh words."

"Mostly his fatwas are on the side of modernity and progress," said Fawwaz Traboulsi, a Lebanese historian. "He's very influential and he's got a lot of money."

Fadlallah's most liberal rulings and attempts to distance Lebanese Shiites from Iran's policies have angered some Shiite clerics close to the Islamic militant group Hezbollah and its leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. Fadlallah was once Hezbollah's spiritual leader, but now the two camps compete for donations from wealthy Shiites.

Fadlallah appears to have eased his anti-American stances. He is strongly critical of the Bush administration, but takes pains to underscore that he's not anti-American. But Fadlallah remains a staunch critic of Israel, once describing the Jewish state as "a conglomerate of people who come from all parts of the world to live in Palestine on the ruins of another people."