Disciplining Children through Beating: An Islamic Perspective and Feminist Thought

Abstract

Objectives: This research aims at filling this gap and analyze the phenomenon of parents’ disciplining their children through beating as permissible in both Islamic and Feminist ’s perspectives. Methodology: The research undertakes the Islamic ruling in the given regard, their goals, substantiation, legal limitation and implications of failure in adhering to the aforementioned limitations. It also delves into the feminist assertion on matters concerning the use of physical force by parents to discipline their children and their campaigns to do away with parental power within the household. Results: The researcher also discovered that according to Islam, the fathers and/or mothers have the most authority within the particular family since they are responsible for the disciplining of the children especially because they are critical in determining the structure of the family and through their proper upbringing, the welfare of society will be enhanced. It is permissible in Islam for parents to use disciplinary beating that parents should not cross or use unfairly. The study also reveals such a threat to feminist concern as the corporal punishment of children while showing the methodological mistakes of these claims This is due to the fact that feminists strive to eliminate the legitimacy of parental authority and equate it with domestic violence. This research outlines the costs that accompany these assertions as being a family unit and society break down. Conclusion: Beating children by their parents is allowed in Islam according to certain conditions, the goal of which is the continuation of the family and upbringing of its members for the sake of everyone’s benefit.