Women's Issues

Q: I experience discharge daily. With regards to haiz what colour discharge would be regarded as haiz. My haiz cycle is generally 10 days. But not every day is red. Please help me understand.

Q: I’m scared of wearing my hijab in public now. I have never been forced to wear it, and I loved wearing it for the past 6 years and still do alhumdullilah.

However, there are high risks of attacks on hijabi girls. There are more and more attacks happening and my fear is growing. I am not scared of the people attacking, nor am I scared of showing my religion of Islam. I am scared of getting hurt, being hospitalised or even dying. I have been told to keep faith in Allah and nothing will happen to me. I am keeping my faith in Allah, I am making dua to keep me safe. But what if something bad does happen? I haven’t personally been attacked yet but people around me have, what if I’m the next victim? I live in a town where there are so many racists and I mind my own business, but sometimes it’s hard to do that. I will obviously come back to wearing my hijab but not whilst I’m living in my current town. What should I do?

Q: In the case where I see a discharge but I am confused of whether it is clear or yellow, during istihadah, do I assume the former or latter and move on? And can we do wudu before prayer time begins when in istihadah? Like 5-10 mins before prayer or even earlier?

Q: If the discharge color changes and seems lightish brown, does the haiz start or not? Does one need to wait for red flow of blood to count whether haiz started?

Q:

1. Is greenish discharge during haidh also considered as blood?

2. I’m in haidh. Today, whilst using the toilet, a lot of discharge came out and I wasn’t aware (as didn’t feel its release) until I wiped and saw discoloured discharge on my tissue. After washing and wiping, myself, towards the end I decided to wipe against my private area once more and I saw a small amount of dampness and i think a small amount of clear discharge. (I’ve read that discoloured discharge thats considered haidh doesn’t have to be completely discoloured, it can be mixed with both clear and coloured discharge.) I didn’t feel the release of this discharge and I’ve made the assumption that it could be leftover of the discoloured discharge I got a few minutes earlier that I forgot to wipe off. Was this okay of me to assume?

Q: During haidh, when I’m getting yellow discharge, how often should I check if my haidh is over?

Q: For many months I have been spotting every month before 15 days finished. As such I was counting the beginning of my haidh from 15 days. But the spotting continued for the first few days sometimes upto 4/6 days into my haidh. Then only would the bleeding properly start but would thereafter finish after 10 days. So the few days I ws bleeding after 10 days I was counting as it as istihaadha. This continued for about 6 months.

Then I had 2 regular haidh cycles (without spotting in between and remaining within 10 days). Then the problem began again for the last 3-4 months. This current haidh I have been spotting since the 8th day of tuhr. After 15 days the spotting, I kept starting and stopping in bigger patches but the flow did not start. On the 10th day the blood flow began properly and I started having a normal haidh period. I had ghusl on the same day and began salaah even though I am still bleeding heavily.

Questions: How should I calculate my haidh? Which days will be haidh and which will be istihaadhah?

If a similar thing happens again or happens often how should I calculateit ?

Is there any amal I can do that can help regulate my haidh?