Women's Issues

Q: What is the iddat for older woman?

Q: What is the Shar’i ruling if the husband divorced his wife immediately after the Nikah before spending any time with her in privacy?

Q: What is the iddat period for a woman whose husband passed away before consummating the Nikah?

Q: How far a woman can travel by herself? Since now a day everyone has driving license and this American society makes everyone travel a lot of miles every day. What if two or more women traveling together by themselves and if someone has a male non adult mehram with her, does that fulfill the requirement for all or all of them are supposed to have a mehram with them?

Q:

1. Can my Mother, Sister etc. go shopping etc. with the driver or taxi alone?
2. If they are two or more of them, can they travel with a taxi driver with no male present?

Q: After having a baby, you are on your periods for 40 days. Does that mean that its not allowed to read namaz for that time period?

Q: I have a question about whether it would be allowed for a Muslim to donate breast milk for use by babies. Secondly would it be allowed for a Muslim mom to allow her baby to use donated breast milk on a newborn infant.

Background information: bottle feeding is both expensive +\- minus R400 per month and needs to be sterilized. For the poor person who is unable to breast feed, mom who's dead or too ill this could lead to serious illness in the child. For instance over diluting to save money would lead to malnourishment. Or people without access to electricity may not heat the bottles leading to child getting severe infections.

Q: What is the shariah's point of view regarding females riding horses?

Q: Can women come to the masjid to perform their salaah?

Q: Sending Baaligh Muslim girls to other schools for quizzes, science fairs, debates etc. with the school bus accompanied by female staff members.