The Holy Bible.

     Pictured at the top left is a copy of a version of the Holy Bible, known as the King James Version ( KJV ).  Pictured at the bottom left is a copy of the Koran.  SURA IV ( WOMEN ), verse thirty-eight, reads as follows:   "Men are superior to women on account of the qualities with which God hath gifted the one above the other, and on account of the outlay they make from their substance for them.  Virtuous women are obedient, careful, during the husband's absence, because God hath of them been careful.  But chide those for whose refractoriness ye have cause to fear; remove them into beds apart, and scourge them: but if they are obedient to you, then seek not occasion against them: verily, God is High, Great!"
     The word "refractory" is defined as follows:

". . . adj.   1  Not amenable to control; disobedient; unmanageable; obstinate. . . ."  [  See NEW ILLUSTRATED WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY Including THESAURUS of SYNONYMS & ANTONYMS, PMC Publishing Company, Inc., 118 EAST 28th STREET, NEW YORK, NY  10016, dictionary portion: pages 1-1150, Copyright 1992, by J.G. Ferguson Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, p. 814.  ]

Thus, according to the above-given passage from the Koran, a disobedient wife is to be placed into a bed and scourged.  To all the wives in the world I ask the following question:  Do you want to be treated this way?

     The Holy Bible ( which is God's word - see Psalm 119:65-73, 142, 151, Mark 16:20, John 17:1, 3, 17, 2 Timothy 2:15; 3:16, 17, and Titus 1:1, 2, for example ) teaches that men are to "love their wives as their own bodies" ( see Ephesians 5:28 ).  Also, verse twenty-nine reads as follows:  "29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church."  Therefore, a Christian ( see Acts 11:26, for example ) husband will not scourge his wife.  A Christian wife understands that she is not to be refractory: she is to "reverence her husband" ( see verse thirty-three ).  Please read Ephesians 5:25-33 to get the immediate context.

     Jesus ( see Matthew 22:37 ) said, "And the second is like unto it, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF" ( see Matthew 22:39 ).  The teaching of the Koran ( given above ) is just one more indication that Islam is false religion.  Jesus said in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." 

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NOTE: The copy of the Holy Bible pictured above employs a format, whereby capital and small capital letters "in the New Testament indicate a quotation from the Old Testament" ( see The Holy Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments, King James Version, THOMAS NELSON PUBLISHERS, Nashville, Copyright 1989 Thomas Nelson, Inc., p. iii. ).  Thus, the use of all-capital letters in a portion of Matthew 22:39 is explained.