Women's Issues

Q: Will our duas be accepted which we ask during haidh?

Q: It is not permissible for a woman to remove her hair during haidh. I would like to know that on getting free from haidh and at the start of taking the ghusal, is it permissible to remove the private hair or should it be done after performing ghusal?

Q: My question is regarding mazi and mani. 

1. Is mani thin and yellow for most women? I've read from many good sources that mani is thin and yellow for women, but can be white if the woman is strong.

2. How would I know if my mani is yellow or white in my case? There are three other characteristics that can also classify if the discharge is mani or not, such as, if it smells like pollen, comes out after feeling pleasure and spurts out. But how would I know if the mani I experience is thin and yellow, or just white. The reason is because I have seen mani come out yellow many years ago, but have only been seeing white see through discharge since I've been unwell. I would classify myself as weak because my health is not up to normal standards.

3. Can I say the white discharge I get is mazi and not mani?

4. Can, feeling extreme excitement without physically touching of a man release mani? I didn't know that a person could climax without sexual intercourse. 

Q: If a woman who is going through menopause bleeds for just one day after about 6 months of no haidh, what is the ruling? Can she make ghusal and read salaah or should she wait?

Q: Could you please provide evidence from the Quran and Sunnah why niqaab is waajib in the Hanafi School? I’ve read that “The awrah of a woman infront of a non-mahram consists of the whole body except the face, hands and feet” - Raddul Mukhtar p531. v9

Q: Can a women sleep without covering her hair and also go to the washroom without covering her head or is it haram?

Q: I have been recently hearing that it is against the sunnah for ladies to attend wedding functions, especially waleemahs. There are certain ideologies that believe women attending wedding functions is haraam altogether, and is not a sunnah: even if the functions are completely segragated and simple!

Kindly advise because I recently attended the weddings of 2 very religious relatives and everything was according to sunnah and within their means. Commenting on another religious Muslims efforts, calling them haraam, propagating women cannot attend waleemahs or wedding functions, isn't this an innovation? 

Q: My grandfather passed away a few months ago and my grandmothers iddat will be completed on Sunday insha'Allah, is there any specific procedure in which she must "break" it? 

Q: I am 31 years old and been married for 7 years. From the first day my husband was unable to consummate the marriage because of his mild autism and anxiety issues (his father was very strict and abusive which according to doctors have resulted in his personality disorder). I tried to resolve the issue with the help of psychiatrists and urologists. He was barely able to perform under very high doses of medicines. He never came near to me until I requested him that we have to do intercoarse for having kids. Otherwise, It happened several times that we lived without intercoarse for 9 months to 1 year.

Later on I came to find out that if he does perform he still can't become a father because he is infertile too (with great difficulty and several attemps at clinic, he was enabled to deposit semen for test).

Now I have decided to take the divorce as I am tired of this nursing and unfulfilling life. For about a year we have never come closer. We practically sleep and live in different bedrooms.

My question is, if he agrees to sign the divorce papers, do I have to complete the time of iddat? My periods are fine and regular and it is very clear that I am not pregnant.

Secondly, I work as a research officer in a university which won't give me leave for three months. It is very important for me as I am financially dependent on this job. Moreover, can sit in iddat (without marrying another person) while going out of the house to work? 

Q: I got married to a girl who wears niqab which I don't prefer, but before marriage I requested her to remove the niqab and she agreed to it and we got married. Now my questions are:

1. Is it a sin to remove the niqab?

2. Did we both commit sin?

3. Is it mandatory to wear niqab?

I personally do not prefer niqab because I am from Sri Lanka which is not a Muslim country, and I currently live in Qatar.