QUESTION: While on my menses, I used a washroom inside the masjid. and I tried to leave immediately after calling the answer of nature, am I sinful for that ?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Rulings on mosques
14 Apr

ANSWER: No sin in entering the toilets as this is not part of the masjid

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QUESTION: Is it a sin to lie to my elders (father, grandfather) that i am fasting or that i have prayed, even though i am on my period. my mother and aunt have told me that my father and grandfather shouldn’t know that i am on my period, and told me to lie about it.

Fiqh of the family, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
02 Apr

ANSWER: It is not permissible to lie in Islam  Simply tell them you are not allowed to pray or fast

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QUESTION: “Is it compulsory to mop the entire floor of the house and wash the pillow covers of the woman(the floor and pillow cover has not come into direct contact with menstrual blood)who used them during her menses, after she has completed her ghusl bath?”

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
24 Mar

ANSWER: Of course not!! Menstruation is not a contagious disease to do all of that! As long as there’s no impurity, there’s no need to wash anything!

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QUESTION: You said we can touch quran during menses wearing gloves. but can we touch quran wearing hand socks made of clothes?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran
13 Feb

ANSWER: No problem  Any barrier would do

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QUESTION: Is it permissible for a woman to do sunnah fasts on Monday and Thursday and not fasting the missed days, I mean will the sunnah fasts be accepted?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
06 Jan

ANSWER: She must fast the missed fasts first & the best thing she can do is make double intention of fasting the missed days as well as the sunnah fasts and she would get double reward.

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QUESTION: I’ve been having periods for 12 years, and since then i havent made up those skipped fasts/rozas . However, I have PCOS and I don’t know how many fasts I’ve missed over the years. Is there any solution for this, as I’m not aware of the exact number of fasts I need to make up? Can i give meals to poor people or money (fidya) as i may have skipped over 12 or 14 rozas per year.

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
29 Dec

ANSWER: There is no expiation for this except to make up all those fasts. You must estimate an approximate number and add a couple more to it to be on the safe side and make them all up besides repenting sincerely to Allah for delaying them for this long!

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QUESTION: If I have ishtihada and I make wudu for tahajjud. Do I have to redo my wudu for fajr when fajr waqt starts?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Prayer
19 Dec

ANSWER: Yes.

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QUESTION: If we’re not fasting due to periods and if small children asks us why we’re not fasting what should we tell?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
30 Aug

ANSWER: You can tell them Allah has exempted women from fasting and praying a few days in a month. 

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QUESTION: If I found clear discharge, I would perform ghusl without hesitation. in recent cycles, I have noticed after initially finding clean discharge, colored discharge appears again. It often takes several days after my bleeding stops for this to clear up. Despite this, I still see clean discharge after inserting a white thread. permissible to consider myself pure seeing clean discharge the first time?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Purity
28 Jul

ANSWER: You must not hasten to take Ghusl until you have seen your purity which is identified by seeing a white threadlike discharge or by experiencing total dryness. Once you see it, perform ghusul immediately. Whatever colored discharges that you say after that, ignore them and just wash it off and perform wudhu whenever you […]

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QUESTION: Can a menstruating woman do sujud at tilawah when reciting quran

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran
20 Jul

ANSWER: This is permissible 

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