Women's Issues

Woman in haidh or nifaas touching the pages of dua kitaabs

2 months ago By user2

Q: A woman is in haidh/nifaas and wishes to read Munaajaate maqbool/40 durood and salaam. In the munaajaate maqbool on one side is Arabic and 1 side english and in the durood kitaab it's all Arabic. 

1. Is it permissible for her to hold the corners of the page and read from the kitaabs? 

2. If she's read before and mistakenly her fingers touched the arabic text, does she need to make taubah from this? 

Sometimes when reading kitaabs, when turning pages fingers mistakenly touch Arabic/ Quraanic text due to not knowing what's coming on the next page. Sometimes also when not in haidh/ nifaas but not in a state of wudhu. 

3. Should one make istighfaar/ taubah when this happens?

Iddat of a Shaafi woman who does not experience haidh

2 months ago By user2

Q: I have a query about the giving of property. 

About 2 years ago, we came to know that my father had taken a second wife, in secret. This nikah had already been performed a year prior to us coming to know. When this happened, my father gave our house to my mother. We formulated a document to officiate it. This is the wording of the document: 

I, So and so, ID no so and so have given my wife so and so ID no so and so ownership of property address and vehicle registration number so and so, on Wednesday 19/06/2024. The contents of property will also be transferred to my wife, with the exclusion of certain items documented on page two/2. Upon transfer, All future rates, maintenance and associated expenses will be covered by myself in full. 

My father signed this, and it was witnessed and signed by his 3 adult, sane children. 1 male, and 2 females. My mother also signed. This property is still in my father’s name. 

After about a year, that nikah had ended in divorce. My father is saying now, that since that nikah ended, he will not be giving the above property and vehicle to my mother. The only reason he was going to give it was if he had 2 wives. 

Islamically, who does the property belong to? 

2. There is also another thing that I wish to query. We are Hanafi. The ex second wife is a Shaafi. She is around 40, and menopausal according to my father. He does not have any children from her. What is the duration of her iddat, and does it affect the inheritance laws in any way?

Girl travelling without a mahram to acquire deeni knowledge

3 months ago By user2

Q: We know from the hadith that a woman is not allowed to travel at all a distance more than 3 days and 3 nights (78km) without a mahram. But would this prohibition be relaxed in the case where a female has to acquire deeni knowledge? 

Example, in her home town there are absolutely no madrasahs. So a girl travels without a mahram for more than the safar distance and then joins a girls' boarding madrasah and lives there. Will this be permissible under the circumstances? 

If not allowed: what is the status of her acquiring knowledge, will her ibaadaat be accepted there, etc?

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