Women's Issues

Q: My period stopped 5 years ago and today after 5 years I started bleeding. Do I regard this as my period?

Q: I just wanted to know how the iddat period of a woman works when she is pregnant. If I divorce my wife while she is pregnant and the baby dies in her stomach but she is not aware of this is she still in iddat until the doctors deliver the baby even though the baby has died or does her iddat end the day the baby dies in her stomach even though shes was not aware and the baby is still inside her?

Q: Is it permissible for an old person around 70 years to pat on the head out of affection a girl 25 years of age on the head.

Q: My last period date was 26 june till 1 july2015, but before 8 days I felt some unclear discharge which was not reddish but yellowish like, and after finishing periods this discharge remained for four days but I was still fasting at those discharge days, so my question is that did I do qada of 7 days fast, its enough or that four days of discharge after the period will also consider be considered as impure? Should I do qada for these four days also?

Q: I live in Saudi Arabia and want to perform umrah on Sunday (9 August ) before returning to South Africa. However, my menstruation has begun today (7 August) and my last period ended on 26 July (it was the full ten days). The space between then and now is 12 days and I am still performing my salah as to my knowledge there has to be a 15 day gap. Can I preform umrah or not?

Q: If a lady after experiencing about 6 days of haidh and from the seventhday slightly coloured discharge, will it be regarded as haidh if

1. The discharge is white when wet but coloured after drying

2. It is very slightly brown/yellow (not pure white) when wet but white when dry and:

a. If it is so little that it does not stain the pad but when making istinjaa it is felt that there was discharge, and now the colour is not known, what should be done?

b. If a lady becomes paak one hour before shoot, does Esha Salaah and taraweeh become fardh on her?

Q: My mother and father have been divorced for more than 40 years. My mother has remarried and divorced about 8 years ago. My father has also remarried and is going for Hajj with my step mother. My sister and I disagree on my mother going to greet my father in and also attending family lunches. Is it permissible for my mother to be present for family lunches with my father in our presence and is she allowed to go see him and his wife off at the airport?

Q: I wish to know if I divorce my wife by one talaaq while she is pregnant and she gives birth after one month, does the iddat end there or is it a minimum of three months from the day of divorce?

Q: What is the Islamic ruling regarding confinement. Is it true that a woman cannot leave the house for 40 days after giving birth?

Q: I have been in iddat for the last two months and what I think is due to stress I got haid just 10/11 days apart. Since this doesn't usually happen except for the last three months, I would like to know how many days should there between haid? And does this then mean my iddat is over since this would be my third since I was divoreced?