Women's Issues

Q: Coeducation is allowed in Islam? There is no good university where there is no coeducation and it is also the demand of nowadays to study in high level institutions. So what should we do now?

Q: I have a question, at times I notice women in purdah walking on the road and I don't feel comfortable about it. I was told that because their husbands are at work they have to walk and go for the weekly ladies taleem. Is this correct for them to do?

Q: I have this question regarding my auntie (dad's sister) her husband passed away two weeks ago and now she is in her own at home. She has children but they are in their own homes and she is worried about her iddat because she said I am now alone. I need to go out for shopping etc and she feels bored at home because no one can be around her at all times. She is over 70 years of age and she said please ask a scholar for advise that what can I do in this situation. It's really hard for me to stay at home all the time. Please could you help? Jazak Allah

Q: I had the marina loop put in, in December last year. I bled continuously for about five months and thereafter I used to spot every other day or every few days. I used to count my period as 10 days and then count a 15 day clean period. I wanted to know if what I was doing is correct or should I have followed my habit that I had previously. I'm not completely sure what was my habit before exactly because sometimes I used have my period for 8, 9 or 10 days what should I do? Right now I spot every few days so how do I count my period?

Q: Please advise regarding breastfeeding. My son will islamically turn two soon but I am still nursing him.

Q: I would like to know how is the iddat period of a widow calculated, on the Islamic calendar date or English, that is the four months and ten days?

Q: My period stopped 5 years ago and today after 5 years I started bleeding. Do I regard this as my period?

Q: I just wanted to know how the iddat period of a woman works when she is pregnant. If I divorce my wife while she is pregnant and the baby dies in her stomach but she is not aware of this is she still in iddat until the doctors deliver the baby even though the baby has died or does her iddat end the day the baby dies in her stomach even though shes was not aware and the baby is still inside her?

Q: Is it permissible for an old person around 70 years to pat on the head out of affection a girl 25 years of age on the head.

Q: My last period date was 26 june till 1 july2015, but before 8 days I felt some unclear discharge which was not reddish but yellowish like, and after finishing periods this discharge remained for four days but I was still fasting at those discharge days, so my question is that did I do qada of 7 days fast, its enough or that four days of discharge after the period will also consider be considered as impure? Should I do qada for these four days also?