Women's Issues

Q: I’m on iddah at present and have been keeping to the confinement of my home as per the rules of Islam. However, my daughter has been experiencing emotional and psychological distress to my divorce as we had to pack up and leave our home in a few days and start a fresh. She is seeing a therapist at present. 

My brother is going away for the weekend and suggested that I join him with my daughter going to the destination and staying in the room whilst he does activity with her. I unfortunately have to drive because he is taking his family with him and there is no space in the car. Is this allowed considering the circumstances. It’s been six weeks since my iddah and I don’t don’t want to break the rules.

Q: Is it allowed to read Quraan without touching it in the state of haidh?

Q: Is it permissible to read the Quls and blow on oneself and on one's children while in the state of haidh or nifaas? 

Q: I am at the end of menses and I saw discoloured discharge at the end of asr, a few minutes before maghrib was about to begin. The next time I checked was the next morning after sunrise, 6 hours before zuhr - this time I saw clear discharge. I waited until zuhr/asr to check again to ensure my menses had truly ended. I then did ghusl at asr and made qada of zuhr and fajr. Do I have to make qada of the previous days asr, maghrib and isha prayers?

Q: Can a woman in nifaas remove her unwanted hair if it is getting uncomfortably long? 

What about clipping the nails during nifaas? 

Are both of the above not allowed during the entire 40 days regardless of the length of one's nails and hair?

Q: A woman is spotting during the days of her period due to using a pill. Her habit is 7 days. Should she take a ghusal after 7 days and continue with salaah or should she wait for 10 days?

Q: As a woman, is it allowed for me to uncover my hands to eat in a public restaurant, if there are non-mahram men present in the same place but not sitting at my table? 

Besides this, can I expose 1-2 fingertips only for mobility when doing shopping and other things outside?

Q: 

1. If a women bleeds for seven days and 23 and a half hours then that's her habit? 

2. If a woman thought that only red blood was haiz, so at the times when she had brown discharge she didn't note it down as days of haiz, then how must she count her Haiz days in the following case if she had a full 15 days of Tuhr thereafter she saw a brown discharge, and thereafter red blood but she is unsure whether or not she had a full 15 days of Thur in between the brown discharge and the red blood, then must she count her haiz days from the time of the brown discharge or from the time when she saw red blood?

Q: Are women allowed to attend the masjid for 5 times daily salaah with congregation? Just like how in the western countries it's done? 

Q: A man divorces his wife 1 talaq. Can the husband use her washing machine during her idah?