What is the ruling on a teacher hitting his adult students for discipline?

The questioner : Shaykh, regarding my situation, I am a teacher. I became a teacher in the education sector, so sometimes there may be some mischief from some of the students,

The presenter : Like this.

The questioner : from some of the students. Yes.

The presenter : What is the obstacle, Shaykh?

The questioner : Of course, I am a teacher in the education sector now, so I am a secondary school teacher, and they are not small children; I mean, first year of secondary and the final year. Sometimes some mischief or some mistakes may occur from some of the students, and they may be intentional, and the matter requires strictness. This strictness calls for using the stick to hit, so what is your opinion on this use? I mean, if one resorts to it out of necessity or to the maximum extent, or even carrying the stick for the sake of threatening and frightening, especially since these are older students, meaning they are all above the age of puberty, not small children as in the primary or compulsory stage?

The Shaykh : What I believe, starting from the well-known hadith among everyone. . . . So here a question arises. The hadith explicitly states the beginning of the time for hitting for the sake of prayer. After it stated that there is no hitting before that time, but rather there is the command: "Order your children to pray when they are seven years old, and hit them for it when they are ten years old." So the beginning of the command to hit is from the seventh year. Excuse me, the command in the hadith is to order the child to pray when he is seven, then to hit him when he is ten. This determines the duration during which the command to pray continues before hitting. But there is no explicit statement in the hadith about the end of the time for hitting. It has the time of beginning So when does this hitting end?
The Shaykh : In my opinion, which I understand from the principles and rules of the Shari'ah, it ends when the boy reaches the age of accountability, where he becomes the master of himself. At that point, the time for hitting, which began at the age of ten, is cut off, and nothing remains except following up with advice, reminding, and preaching, and so on. If this is the case, then it is even more so that hitting should not be used with someone who is not your son or your child from your own lineage. This is from the legal perspective.
The Shaykh : And from the social perspective, I do not believe that hitting is beneficial, especially in this time which has been dominated by the tastes of the disbelieving West, which does not believe in Allah and His Messenger. And you have lived in these systematic schools and thus graduated from university, and peace be upon you, so I think you know that. Peace be upon you, peace. Welcome. Yes, it does not end; it must end, this issue must end. Oh, Shadi. Because this is a matter, you are, on one hand, improving things, but on the other hand, regarding the atmosphere, it is not beneficial. You have to bear the weakness, bear the roughness, and do not cheat with the past. "If only youth would return one day, so I could show what the gray hair has done." The point is that you know that the education system today is based on no education, no Islamic education, and that the senior officials in what is called the Department of Education and Teaching, there is no education there, and there is no teaching that yields any education. So, in my opinion, from the legal perspective.
The Shaykh : One who has passed the age of puberty, fourteen, fifteen, and so on, has become the master of himself. And from the practical perspective, the matter is worse and worse, because the current education system does not allow disciplining the young by hitting. They will tell you this is regression, and so on, with terms I may not remember. This is on one hand, and on a third and final hand, in my opinion, with a style of strictness, the teacher who uses strictness will instill enmity and hatred in the hearts of those students, and in your expression, the mischievous ones.
The Shaykh : But we must take an etiquette from what He Blessed and Exalted said to His Prophet (peace be upon him) . And if, as you know, and you are the reader and memorizer, if Allah wills, from what He the Exalted said to Musa and his brother "Perhaps he will remember or fear." So these who use mischief, as I said, strictness does not benefit them at all. If anything benefits them, it is this softness and this gentleness. And the gentleness which was also mentioned in the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in the story of that Jew who twisted his tongue with a greeting, saying "As-sam 'alayk" (Death be upon you), O Messenger of Allah. So she trembled from behind the veil, and they said, "May the curse and anger be upon you, brothers of the monkeys and pigs."
The Shaykh : So when the man left, she said, the Messenger (peace be upon him) said It seems she was saying, "Jealousy took me over you; he is invoking death upon you." He said to her, "Did you not hear what I said?" Meaning, I said "And upon you." If he intended the greeting in truth, then I have fulfilled my duty. And if he intended the meaning that came to your mind, then I returned it to him. And this means, as if the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) means that he is applying in this answer the principle of what He Blessed and Exalted said So if one hits you with a palm, it is permissible for you to return the palm with a palm, and not with two palms, because you have increased and transgressed. If so, then he (peace be upon him) said
The Shaykh : Therefore, I advise you, if you are afflicted with being a teacher for those who do not learn the knowledge for the religion and are not raised with Islamic education, then you must adhere to Islamic etiquette in raising those whom you are afflicted with teaching. As for using strictness, it is not prescribed legally, and it is not beneficial socially. Do you have something to say? What is it? He is going to get married and the man returned, or not?