men are the protectors and maintainers of women because allah has made one of them to excel the other and because they spend from their means. therefore the righteous women are qanitat and guard in the husbands absence what allah orders them to guard. as to those women on whose part you see ill conduct admonish them and abandon them in their beds and beat them but if they return to obedience do not seek a means against them. surely allah is ever most high most great.
الرجال قوامون على النساء بما فضل الله بعضهم على بعض وبما أنفقوا من أموالهم فالصالحات قانتات حافظات للغيب بما حفظ الله واللاتي تخافون نشوزهن فعظوهن واهجروهن في المضاجع واضربوهن فإن أطعنكم فلا تبغوا عليهن سبيلا إن الله كان عليا كبيرا