Having relations with one's wife during her menses (haidh)
Q:
1. Is intercourse during periods haraam?
2. Can it be done using condoms?
Haiz, Istihaazah & Nifaas
Irregular brown discharge after taking birth control pills
Q: I am usually regular with my menstruations, with active bleeding occuring around the 20th of each month, once a month only. However I have recently started taking birth control pills, and I am experiencing a very mild brown discharge, since the 7th November (out of my regular menstrual bleeding time). Medically this is referred to as breakthrough bleeding, caused by the pill. Would it be counted as menstrual bleeding Islamically, once 15 days of being paak have passed? Even though this bleeding does not exactly resemble the actual menstrual flow? What about if this brown discharge starts before the full 15 days of being paak,i.e. the discharge occurs randomly throughout the month. Although, during the first 2 days of my actual menstrual period, the flow is a similar mild brown, after which it progresses to red bleeding.
Woman seeing green discharge before haidh
Q: Is a green mucus discharge considered as haidh? I always get a green mucus discharge a day or 2 before my actual haidh (my haidh itself lasts for 10-12 days)
Spouses having relations after haidh ends
Q: If the wife was ending her haidh and stopped bleeding for a whole day and made ghusl and afterwards had relations with her husband and after having relations, she started bleeding again… Will this be a sin upon the spouses?
Removing pubic hair is not a prerequisite for ghusal to be valid
Q: I was not able to take out one or two strands of pubic hair during shaving. I still made my ghusal for haidh. Was my ghusal valid?
Woman doubting whether haiz started while fasting
Q: If a girl was fasting and at the time of asr, she's confused and not sure if she saw slight redness and after maghrib she saw her haidh had come. So when must she take a ghusl if she gets it for 10 days? (Asr or Maghrib Time)
Will she have to make qadha of that fast?
Irregular bleeding after nifaas
Q: A woman gave birth. Continuous bleeding continued for 36 days. It stopped at 36 days. After 7 days, bleeding started again for 10 days. Then she had 10 days of no bleeding. After that, bleeding began continuously for a month (and may continue like this for months).
Her previous nifaas habit was 40 days. Before pregnancy, her last habit was 7 days haidh and 21 clean days.
She calculated the nifaas as a full forty days. She then began performing salaah, despite the bleeding. When the bleeding began 23 days after the 40-day nifaas, she stopped performing salaah for full 10 days. She then took ghusl and began performing salaah. Now 13 days of bleeding have passed after the ghusl.
a) Uptil now, has she acted correctly?
b) Currently, should she stop performing salaah after 15 days or after 21 days as was her habit previously before pregnancy?
c) Should she calculate her haidh as 7 days or 10 days, as she is bleeding continuously?
She is not sure if she should stop her salaah in 2 days or not, or if she should have stopped already.
Woman experiencing discharge in her days of haidh
Q: Is it permissible for a woman in haidh to read Salah, Quraan, etc. if she knows, based on her previous month's analysis, that the type of bleeding e.g. not blood but a discharge would not last for 3 days?
Woman in haidh or nifaas making wudhu to make zikr
Q: Is it permissible for a woman in the state of haidh or nifaas to make wudhu before engaging in zikr, before sleeping etc., or will this be regarded as wasting water?
Woman following a tuhr cycle every month
Q:
1. Do women have to follow their tuhr cycle every month? I do not have a fixed tuhr period. Some months it is 20 days, 21 days, then another month 16 days. I may get a same tuhr period for two months sometimes. But most of the time it is unfixed. For years I am counting my periods like this - if I get a bleeding after 15 days from the last period, I treat it as period. Can you please tell if this is the correct way of calculating periods or do I have to follow my previous month’s tuhr period?
2. Almost a year ago. it happened that I forgot my habit of period. I forgot how many days it was. After much contemplation, I felt that my habit was 8 days. Since then, I have been practicing upon it. Is that correct?