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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QUESTION: Till when a women should wait for ending her menses to perform Isa??? Should she awake whole night or awake till midnight to check the purity???

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
01 Jul

ANSWER: She should sleep on her normal time and if she doesn’t get pure by that time, no problem in sleeping 

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QUESTION: I really wanted to fast on the Day of Arafah this year, as I learnt about the Hadith that it expiates the sins of the previous and the upcoming year, but I got my periods, which was decreed for me by Allah. Will I get the reward, will my sins be forgiven (if I verbally seek Istaghfaar) while I cannot fast?

Fasting, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
13 Jun

ANSWER: You will be rewarded in Sha Allah for your intention. If you had a habit of fasting it every year in the past, you will be rewarded as if you had fasted it in Sha Allah 

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QUESTION: Sheikh, does a woman have to perform ghusl again after her istihadah ends?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Purity
03 May

ANSWER: No.

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QUESTION: What should a woman do if she has not kept her skipped fasts(due to menstruation) after Ramadan, eversince her puberty? Does she have to keep all the skipped fasts of past 18 years? Or feed the poors? If to feed, then how many?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
26 Mar

ANSWER: There is no expiation for this except to repent to Allah while showing deep remorse and to keep all those missed fasts of the past.

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QUESTION: I have been having my menses like this for years my menses is hard to distinguish when it is over and it goes over 15 days for the maximum amount of period, I get flowing blood for approximately 8-10 days then it’s coloured discharge after this should I wait each time to pass the 15 days & continue my prayers & fasts

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
16 Mar

ANSWER: You are considered to be Mustahadah and you should only stop for the days of your bleeding and then perform ghusul and every prayer time you must wash your private parts, change your soiled pad or underwear and perform wudhu to pray

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QUESTION: I decide to finish the Quran during Ramadan, I read one Juz daily. During my periods, can I read the Quran from my mobile and finish my Quran by the end of Ramadan?

Fasting and Ramadan, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Reading/Reciting the Quran
14 Mar

ANSWER: This is permissible.

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QUESTION: There is a possibility that I might get discharge from period middle of the night. Should i wakeup before fajr to check if I can pary Esha and before sunrise if I can pray fajr ?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Prayer
03 Mar

ANSWER: If you have your menses and you go to bed at night, you need to wake up at fajar time to check whether you have become pure or not. Isha prayer is gone and you don’t need to make it up as you did not see your purity before midnight.

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QUESTION: If a woman does ghusl after periods, should she wash every piece of cloth (headscarf, jacket, abaya..) she wore during that time?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Purity
26 Feb

ANSWER: No! She must wash only those parts of clothes that are soiled by the impurity. 

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QUESTION: I used to think that if I have like discharge following menses, Ive to stop praying and fasting for 15 days. So I used to leave fasts for 15 days unintentionally, do I make up them too?

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

ANSWER: If such discharges appeared after seeing your purity, you need to repeat your missed fasts as you were pure and must fast.

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