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Regarding the treatment. of wives, the following verse in the Qur'an (Surah iv. 38) allows the husband absolute power to correct them: "Chide those whose refractoriness you have cause to fear. Remove them into sleeping chambers apart, and beat them. But if they are obedient to you, then seek not occasion against them."

— Thomas Hughes

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Marry women who will love their husbands and be very prolific, for I want you to be more numerous than any other people.

"When a man calls his wife, she must come, although she be at an oven."

"All young men who have arrived at the ago of puberty should marry, for marriage prevents sins. He who cannot marry should fast."

"When any of you wishes to demand a woman in marriage, if he can arrange it, let him see her first."

"When a Muslim marries he perfects half his religion, and he should practice abstinence for the remaining half."

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