Islam -
Part 1
Chapter 5
#6 - The Quran contradicts the Bible in the way that husbands are told to treat their wives.
Note: This is what the Quran says in Surah 4:34, “Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband’s) absence what Allah would have them guard. AS TO THOSE WOMEN ON WHOSE PART YE FEAR DISLOYALTY AND ILL-CONDUCT, ADMONISH THEM (FIRST), (NEXT), REFUSE TO SHARE THEIR BEDS, (AND LAST) BEAT THEM (LIGHTLY).”
This is a clear contradiction to what the BIBLE taught in the Old Testament.
The Bible never instructs a man to beat his wife, whether it be heavily or lightly.
There was an instance in the Bible where it appeared that a wife was going to be beaten by her husband, and God intervened on her behalf and smote the man.
1. 1 Samuel 25:2-3 says, “And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. Now the name of the man was __________; and the name of his wife ______________: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was ________________ and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.”
Note: The word churlish means, “vulgar; marked by a lack of civility or graciousness; surly; difficult to work with or deal with” (Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary).
2. 1 Samuel 25:14-19 says, “But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he ______________ on them. But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of ____________, that a man cannot __________ to him. Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.” 3. 1 Samuel 25:35-38 says, “So __________ received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in __________ to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person. And Abigail came to __________; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very ______________: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart ________ within him, and he became as a __________. And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he ________.”
A man better think twice before beating his wife, because God may just
do with him like He did with Nabal, before he could lay a hand upon his wife.
Note: Remember what the Quran said in Surah 4:34? “As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (next), refuse to share their beds, (and last) BEAT THEM (lightly).” That is not what the Bible taught in the Old Testament for husbands to do, who feared that their wives had been unfaithful to them. This is what it taught:
4. Numbers 5:11-22 says, “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's ________ go aside, and commit a trespass against him, And a ______ lie with her carnally, and it be ______ from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; And the spirit of ________________ come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: Then shall the man bring his wife unto the ____________, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the ________: And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the __________: And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If ____ man have lain with thee, and if thou hast ______ gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou ________ from this bitter water that causeth the curse: But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some ______ have lain with thee beside thine husband: Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to ______, and thy belly to __________; And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.”
Note: You will notice that nowhere does the Bible give a husband permission to hit or beat his wife when he fears that she has been unfaithful to him. The Quran clearly contradicts the Bible in this matter.
Just like in that Old Testament passage, the New Testament
teaches that GOD HIMSELF WILL DEAL WITH ADULTERERS.
5. Hebrews 13:4 says, “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed __________________: but whoremongers and ____________________ God will __________.”
Note: The Bible gives clear instructions on how husbands are to treat their wives.
6. Ephesians 5:25-33 says, “Husbands, ________ your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to ________ their wives as their ______ bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet __________ his own flesh; but nourisheth and ____________________ it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so ________ his wife even as ______________; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”
#7 - The Quran contradicts the Bible in the matter of remarriage after a previous divorce, and subsequent remarriage to someone else.
Note: This is what the Quran states in Surah 2:230, “So IF A HUSBAND DIVORCES HIS WIFE (irrevocably), HE CANNOT, AFTER THAT, REMARRY HER UNTIL AFTER SHE HAS MARRIED ANOTHER HUSBAND AND HE HAS DIVORCED HER. In that case there is no blame on either of them if they reunite.” Two verses later, in Surah 2:232, the Quran says, “When ye divorce women, and they fulfil the term of their (Iddah), do not prevent them from marrying their (former) husbands...”
The Quran teaches that if a man divorces his wife, and then decides that he
wants to remarry her, he cannot, unless she first goes out and marries another man,
and then he divorces her. That is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the Bible teaches.
1. The Bible says in Deuteronomy 24:3-4, “And if the ____________ husband hate her, and write her a bill of ______________________, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband ______, which took her to be his wife; Her ____________ husband, which sent her away, may ______ take her again to be his ________, after that she is defiled; for that is ______________________ before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.”
The Bible clearly teaches that if a husband and wife get divorced, and then one or both
subsequently remarry someone else, they are never to be remarried again to each other
— even if their latter mate(s) die. God says such a practice is an abomination to Him.
Note: The reasoning behind what Muhammad wrote here in the Quran is readily seen. In Islam, you simply cannot have a woman that outshines her husband — that is simply unthinkable. In such a situation as this, that is what you would have — a sinful man who divorced his wife, but later had second thoughts and wanted to remarry her (which shows that there was nothing wrong with the wife in the first place — it was the husband who was in the wrong). Rather than have the husband humble himself and admit to his sin, and be reconciled to his wife, Muhammad wrote that the wife must first go out and remarry another man. Then, that second husband must divorce her. Then, the original husband and wife could remarry. The purpose of this whole unscriptural scheme is to try and remove any and all blame from the man for his sin (in divorcing his wife). And lest there be any doubt as to this conclusion, the Quran makes it very clear: “In that case THERE IS NO BLAME ON EITHER OF THEM if they reunite” (Surah 2:232).
The fact is that there would be no blame on the woman in this situation — the blame
would all be on the man. So to even the score, the wife is forced into marrying another man
(which would mean having intimate relations with him), and then get divorced.
Now, when her former husband wants to remarry her, she has nothing over her husband,
because she has been with another man. This is a very vile and wicked teaching.
The Bible teaches humility, confession of sin, and reconciliation — not forcing
someone else to sin, so that you do not feel guilty about your own sin.
2. 1 Corinthians 7:10-11 says, "And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let ______ the wife ____________ from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain __________________, or be ____________________ to her husband: and let ______ the husband put away his ________."
Those two verses alone, show that the Quran says
the exact opposite of what the Bible teaches.
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