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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QUESTION: Is it allowed to touch and read from small book of surah kahf (does not contain any tafseer only the surah in Arabic) during menses?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran, Supplications
06 May

ANSWER: It’s not permissible to touch it with bare hands  You can either wear gloves or read from your phone etc.

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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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