Women's Issues

Q: Is it permissible to have relations with one's wife before she has ghusal in the case where her haidh has terminated before ten days?

Q:

1. If a woman, to check the end of her period, cleans her private part, places a tissue there, waits 30 minutes, checks and sees no discharge - does this mean her period is over? Should she wait longer than 30 min before deciding?

2. Also at the beginning/middle of her period, does she have to make ghusl and pray during the times when blood is not flowing? For example, she sees blood at the beginning of her habit and realizes her period has started. Then she sees no blood for about half a day, then she sees blood again and the blood continues for days. During this half a day, is she considered to be on her period?

Q: A poor woman who works as a full-time caretaker of another woman had the death of her husband. In this situation, is it permissible to do iddat in the house where she works since she is the only one to support her children and if she goes to her own home for iddat, she will not have any source of income?

Some people are willing to help her financially for the period of iddat to do iddat at her own home. What will be the best in these circumstances? 

Q: A few questions from a woman:

1. Why are menstruating women not expected to pray? Fast? Touch Quran?

2. Why do we pay back fasts but not salaah?

3. Why do women pray at the back or behind the men in mosques but not so in the harams? More for overseas people cos we go to the masjids here.

Q: I was feeling that I might have got discharge. I did not see because most of the time I have this feeling. Later when I checked (after 1 or 2 hours) I saw blood on my clothes.

1. When should I start counting my haidh days; the time I saw the blood or when I felt the discharge (I am not sure whether I had really got the discharge and it could have been white or red also)?

Q: If the face of women and hands are not awrah then why is it compulsory to cover? Is it a major sin to show the face? You said in one answer that it is compulsory in this time of fitnah... Isn't it compulsory from the era of our Nabi (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) when the ayah came?

Q: If my menses last month was nine days and this month I only bled for five days, is it permissible for my husband and I to have relations after five days?

Q: I had just finished my menstruation and made ghusal. I started making my salaah and after a day I started spotting again. The colour of the discharge is dark brown. Should I continue with my salah or stop or take ghusal again?

Q: Can women read Quran in Haidh? Those who are saying yes are quoting Uthaimeen that he said “there is no Saheeh Hadeeth to prove it. (the answer from Madina university)

Q: I just became a widow with 3 kids. I am the only breadwinner and was also before the passing away of my husband as he didn't have a job. My question is can I go out and work? I sell at markets and some markets go up to 10 pm at night.