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>>Ankerberg: Talk about Muhammad as the marriage counselor. What do we learn from the Hadith?
>>Emir Caner: This is where Bukhari's Hadith, volume 72, number 715, the story really comes
out. There's a woman who comes to him, and she's been beaten by her husband. But she
realizes in Islamic law the only way she can divorce him is if he has left Islam, if he's
committed adultery on her, or if he's impotent. Well, he's still a Muslim, and so she says
that he's impotent. The problem is, she has been beaten. He comes into the equation, shows
himself and he's not impotent, because he brings his children with him. So Muhammad
looks at her, even though she shows proof of being beaten, and says "You lied to me.
You must go back to your husband and have sex with him before you can divorce him,"
proving that impotence is not true. And, of course, you can't divorce. And he does nothing.
Even though she gets the empathy of Aisha, he does nothing to save her from these beatings
she is getting from her husband.
>>Ankerberg: Alright, people that are non-Christians and people that are Christians that are listening
that did not know this about Muhammad, what do you want them to do with this information?
>>Ergun Caner: Well, certainly one of the core essence of existence is some essential
human rights. The fact that in Islam a woman is not allowed to read; it's discouraged for
women to be educated. But the thing is, according to the Bible, a woman does not stand to her
husband to find God. Galatians 3 says there's no difference between slave and free, male
or female. My wife doesn't come through me to get to God. My wife is a child of the living
God. Our message to the Muslims is, if we don't have Christian women reaching Muslim
women, there's no cross-gender evangelism. I can't, as a man, speak to a woman without
dishonoring her family or angering her father. If Christian women don't rise up to share
this, Muslim women won't listen and won't hear. We want them to know that there's a
God who loves them individually. God wants them as a child, that the husband is not superior,
that He loves her just as much. Ankerberg: Final word.