QUESTION: I experience spotting before my periods. For example, At Maghrib time I had discharge so I wash and change my pad, take wudu and pray. At Isha time there was no discharge so I proceed to pray. Then while praying I feel discharge. I cannot be certain of what it is untill I look. What is the correct procedure for this regarding my salah?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Prayer, Purity
14 Feb

ANSWER: If you check immediately after prayers and see spotting, you need to clean yourself, renew your wudhu and repeat that prayer.

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QUESTION: Can i recite quran while on menses(in general,by heart or phone)? if yes, i know i cant touch the mushaf, but can i recite from the mushaf without touching it?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran
25 Jan

ANSWER: This is permissible.  You can touch the mushaf with a barrier like gloves or holding a piece of cloth etc

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QUESTION: If a woman is free from periods after 7 days and sign of purity shows but didnot take ghusl.. Can she intercourse amd then take ghusl? Or first take ghusl?

Fiqh of Marriage, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
19 Jan

ANSWER: This is not permissible! She must first take ghusl to get pure and then can have intimacy with her husband

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QUESTION: After my periods, I get white discharge that may be watery or thick, which can wet or collect on my clothes. When I’m outside and cannot change frequently, what is the Islamic ruling on purity and prayer, and what alternatives are allowed for performing ibadah?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Purity
13 Jan

ANSWER: This normal vaginal white discharge that women get after seeing their purity and performing ghusul is pure and doesn’t require washing it off or renewal of wudu to pray. Does the white discharge that comes after the periods end invalidate wudu? What is the ruling when it comes while in salah?

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QUESTION: Is it necessary to cut nails and shave after our periods have ended and before the ghusl? What is the ruling?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Purity
14 Dec

ANSWER: Shaving the pubic area & cutting nails has nothing to do with purity or ghusul as they are separate things.  Removing pubic and armpit hair & cutting nails has nothing to do with ghusl after menses.

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QUESTION: When a woman becomes pure from her menses then takes ghusl, can she wear the same clothes she was wearing before the ghusl if she is certain there is no impurity on them?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Purity, Women clothing
11 Dec

ANSWER: No problem.

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QUESTION: If its the day when im supposed to get my period/ill get it soon, and im in salah, and i feel something come out but im not sure if its my menses or normal discharge. What should i do?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Prayer
22 Nov

ANSWER: You should continue praying

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QUESTION: There is an area in the Girls Common Room in our university which is reserved for prayers. It is an area slightly raised above the ground and is bounded by wooden rails. Is it permissible for girls on their periods/without wudu to sit and study there?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Rulings on mosques
01 Oct

ANSWER: No problem in this as this is not a masjid 

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QUESTION: Sheikh,I know it’s against haya 2 ask this type of ques, but I’m really wrried.I recently found out that after a woman’s period,when she does ghusl,she not only has 2 wash her private part (which I knew),but also has 2 insert her index finger inside it.They say if she doesn’t,the ghusl isn’t complete. Is that true?I tried, but I’m not able 2 do it, & I’m fling very stressed

Innovations, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Purity
31 Jul

ANSWER: What they have said is totally baseless and fabricated!

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QUESTION: I’ve watched a lot of your videos on this but still confused. For a 30 day month, maximum duration of period (hayd) could be 15 days or 14 days?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
29 Jul

ANSWER: At the end of the 14th day, you should consider whatever comes after that to be istihadah. 

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