Corporal Punishment Is An Invention Of Hell

Saturday, January 13th marks the seventh anniversary of the banning of corporal punishment in all Bangladeshi schools.

- Sir Frank Peters

It doesn’t matter from which angle you view corporal punishment; it isn’t pretty. It serves no useful purpose whatsoever, but causes untold damage by creating damaged children, broken adults and fashions an appalling society in which everybody loathes Let’s be bold, courageous, call a spade a spade, jump-in at the deep end and make it categorically clear there is nothing that justifies corporal punishment in the eyes of God or man…NOTHING!

Poor parenting and poor teaching skills do not justify corporal punishment and those who dish it out are not only lawbreakers, but working against the wishes of the Creator.

Moulana Muhammad Khan Sherani, Chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology, told the world media last year that Islam STRICTLY prohibits physical punishment of both males and females.

Those of Christian belief can seek references in the Bible where it says Mary and Joseph beat Jesus or that Jesus beat the children he taught, but they can’t be found.

“But, it advises in the Good book that if you spare the ‘rod’ you spoil the child,” I hear you scream. That priceless advice is there, but the problem is in the misinterpretation of the word ‘rod’. In Hebrew the word ‘rod’ is the same word used in Psalms 23:4, ‘thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.’

The shepherd’s rod/staff was/is used to ENCOURAGE, GUIDE, and DISCIPLINE the sheep towards taking a desired direction, NOT to beat, hurt or damage them.

The correct interpretation of the proverb, therefore, should read ‘spare good GUIDANCE and spoil the child’. And that makes a load of sense.

Try to imagine Muhammad or Jesus slapping children in the face, beating them with sticks or giving them a trashing as some of the kids in school today experience. Impossible.