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: My cousin, when she has to make call of mature outside, would not clean her privat part despite having water with herself, because her hands would not been clean. When she is at home she change her clothes and clean herself, she says. Is she sinful? She has ocd related to cleaning issues.

Purity
31 Jan

ANSWER: If she uses tissues, this is fine and she is not sinful. But if she doesn’t use anything neither water or tissues, she is najis like animals!

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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: How to differentiate between vaginal discharge and arousal discharge as both have same texture and colour

Purity
12 Dec

ANSWER: The white vaginal discharge is continuous and occurs naturally, without any sexual arousal or desire. Mathi is emitted when one is aroused. It is impure and requires washing the affected areas and renewing wudu before praying.

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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: Sheikh is it valid to have ghusl just by pouring water all over my body with the intention?

Purity
06 Dec

ANSWER: If you rinse your mouth and nose and wash your whole body, this is a valid ghusul.

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QUESTION: Is the smoke that comes after burning something that is impure considered impure if that smokes touches us then what?

Purity
15 Nov

ANSWER: Its not impure.

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QUESTION: Clear nailpolish unsure if its gone can i assume it is

Ablution (Wudhu), Beautification & Cosmetic Suregry, Purity
11 Nov

ANSWER: If you completely took it off then by default it’s gone unless you physically feel or see it

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QUESTION: Sheikh, if a person has committed Zina in past but did not do Ghusl as they were unaware of it, and later regretted and repented for what they did, should they now do Ghusl for their repentance to be accepted?

Purity
07 Nov

ANSWER: If they are still in the state of Major ritual impurity, they must perform ghusul.

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