Women's Issues

Removing hair during haidh

Q: I have a few questions to ask which I am in doubt about.

1. Are women allowed to remove hair from any part of the body example arms, legs or face during her hayz or nifaas.

2. Is a woman on haidh or nifaas allowed to read any wazifa that is from the quran? Example any quranic ayat as a wazifa during her monthly cycle or not.

3. If a women has sideburns is she allowed to thread them or shave them if the are really long?

The place of women

Q: Could you please tell me is there a need for segregation between non mahram male and females in academic discussions and conferences? The content of discussions is halaal but sometimes there is a need for public meetings and private discussions which some brothers outside the academy feel is a sign of transgression. Is that so?

Irregular bleeding

Q: I'm feeding my baby. During feeding, my period is irregular. First month by month just had spots, not bleeding so I waited until 3 days then I performed ghusal. Soon I had same spots after 20 days. Again I waited 3 days, then performed ghusal and now I have blood spot after 8 days of my period. So should I wait for 3 days because it's just spots for two days. Please confirm.

Irregular bleeding

Q: If a female usually menstruates for 6-7 days but this week due to reasons had an odd cycle where she took a shower on the 5 day which was Wednesday and the next day in the evening (Thursday) checked her pad and she thinks she saw brown/yellow (can't remember for sure) but then changes her pad and that night (Thrusday) and changed it again but can't remember if she saw nothing or the littlest bit of yellow/brown discharge. 1) When should he consider her period to be over? Which namaz did she miss for that day? Usually she has a lot more bleeding but this time since she was washing a lot in that area it was shorter cycle. 2) When should she have showered. Thursday or Friday like she normally would?