(THE FIQH OF MENSTRUATION) Questions and Answers [notes]

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QUESTION AND ANSWER:

QUESTION 1: CAN WE TOUCH MUSHAF WITHOUT WUDU?

ANSWER_1:

-You only need wudu to make salah

-a woman does not need to cover her head to read Quran

-if she is home, she can pray with feet uncovered

-she should cover her feet in front of non-mahram

-her feet can turn on a man  

QUESTION 2:

SHAIKH YOU MENTIONED THAT A WOMAN WHO DOESN'T KNOW HER CYCLE AND BLEEDS PROFUSELY, EXAMPLE, I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A HEAVY FLOW AND INCONSISTENT SINCE I STARTED MY CYCLE. 

I had had child, and my cycle has become worse and each month again is still worse some months I am heavy throughout for 10-15 days, some months, it is low and i can go for 8 -10 days. How would you describe my situation?

ANSWER_ 2:

-Hanbali fiqh: a woman can menstruate for 15 days

-after giving birth, a period can become irregular

-your situation can easily be sorted out

-if it no longer has a foul smell or is thick you are no longer in menses

-if it no longer is dark red

-lots of female sahaba had this issue

Hamnah bint Jahsh, "I had a very strong prolonged flow of blood. I went to the Prophet to ask him about it. When I asked him if I had to stop praying and fasting, he said 'Tie around a cloth, and it will stop.' I said, 'It is greater than that.' He said, 'Curb it.' I said, 'It flows greatly.' He then said, 'You may do one of two things: either one will suffice. Which one you are able to do you know best. This is a strike from Satan. Be on your period for six or seven days, which Allah knows, and then perform ghusl until you see that you are clean. Pray for fourteen nights or thirteen nights and days and fast, and that will be sufficient for you. Do that every month as the other women become pure and menstruate. If you can, you may delay the noon prayer and hasten the afternoon prayer. Perform ghusl and pray the noon and afternoon prayers together. Then delay the sunset and hasten the night prayers and pray them together. Perform ghusl for the morning prayer and pray it. This is how you may pray and fast if you have the ability to do so." And he said, "That is the more loved way to me." [Musnad Ahmad (27188), Sunan Abu Dawud (287), Sunan Ibn Majah (627), Sunan Tirmidhi (128)]

-look at the colour of the blood and the smell

-when the colour changes to the red of nosebleed and doesn't smell you are in istihaadha

Narrated 'A'ishah (RA): Fatimah bint Abi Hubaish came to the Messenger of Allah (Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) and said, “I am a woman who has a prolonged flow of blood (istihadah), and I am never purified from this blood, shall I abandon prayer?' He (Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) replied, 'No, that is only a vein and not menstrual blood. If it is your menstruation, then leave the prayer, and if it is other than that then wash yourself from the blood and pray.” [Al-Bukhari (228) and Muslim (333)]

Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet (Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), that a certain woman in the time of the Messenger of Allah (Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) used to bleed profusely, so Umm Salama consulted the Messenger of Allah (Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) for her, and he said, "She should calculate the number of nights and days a month that she used to menstruate before it started happening, and she should leave off from prayer for that much of the month. When she has completed that she should do ghusl, bind her private parts with a cloth, and then pray."

[Muwatta Malik (1/68) No. 172, Musnad Ahmad (6/293) No. 26553, Sunan Abu Dawud (1/71) No. 274, Sunan ad-Darime (1/221) No. 780, Sunan Ibn Majah (1/393) No. 623]

  

QUESTION 3:

WHAT IS THE WAITING PERIOD THAT ONE THAT BORE CHILD NEEDS TO WAIT TO BE CLEAN FOR SALAT OR ENGAGE IN SEXUAL RELATIONS? IS IT THE FULL FORTY DAYS OR AS SOON AS THE BLEEDING STOP?

ANSWER 3:

-According to the 4 madhabs it is when the bleeding stops

-not after 40 days

-make ghusl whenever the bleeding stops and pray

-it is haram to perform talaq in nifas

-but khula is halal

QUESTION 4:

IF A WOMAN CAN ENTER THE MASJID AND READ THE QURAN, THEN WHY CAN'T THEY FAST DURING THE MONTH OF RAMADAN WHEN THEY'RE MENSTRUATING?

ANSWER 4:

-This is out of rahma for the woman

-because she is suffering cramps

-so that will be pains of cramps and hunger

A woman can take pills to suspend menses to fast the whole of Ramadan and also to do hajj

    

QUESTION 5:

SINCE WE CAN MAKE WUDU FOR PROTECTION, AND THERE IS A HADITH THAT SAYS THE PERSON IS PROTECTED WHILE IN THE STATE OF WUDU, CAN A SISTER IN MENSTRUATION MAKE WUDU WITHOUT PRAYING?

  

ANSWER 5:

-The purpose of wudu is to prepare for salah

-I don’t have evidence to support doing this

-the prophet told the women to make regular istinja