Old woman experiencing haidh
Q: A lady of 54 years and 7 months is still getting her haidh. But now instead of 17-18 day she gets it in 30-35 days. What is the ruling? Does the ruling of haidh or istihaadha apply?
Women's Issues
Calculating haidh from the time of the first discharge
Q: A woman was fasting and at Zuhr time she notices discharge. The discharge does look clear but it's more inclined to brownish colour. So she doesn't consider it her haidh and she continues fasting and waits to see whether it's her haidh or not. So she reads her salaah and Quraan and whenever she checks whether her haidh has started or not she sees nothing but at the of Eshaa Salaah she notices that she has haidh.
So will she start calculating her haidh period from Zuhr time or from Eshaa time?
And if she starts counting from Zuhr time so should she repeat the pages that she had the pages of the Quran she had read?
Woman in haidh or nifaas touching the pages of dua kitaabs
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
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?
Woman leaving her home without a mahram
Q: Are women allowed to leave the home and only get back when the husband comes from work?
Qadha salaah of a pregnant woman who thought her bleeding was haidh
Q: My haidh was delayed by 7 days - I bled on the 8th for one day - and since then there has been no bleeding and discharge is clear - it's a possibility of a pregnancy - what should I do with regards to my salaahs?
Should I make ghusal and start reading and make up for the missed Salaahs?
Girls going to university
Q: Is studying after matric halaal for girls at a university?
Girl travelling without a mahram to acquire deeni knowledge
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?
Widow in iddat meeting her niece's husband
Q: Can a widow in iddat meet her niece's husband?
Haidh commencing from the first sight of blood
Q: Do women need to repeat the prayers prayed in between blood? If on Tuesday 3pm she sees some slight red spots, and then clear for the rest of the day, then 5pm the next day then clear, then 9am the next day she sees more blood and her period actually starts, must those prayers be re-prayed?