The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.372- The following eight things are makrūh for a person who is in the state of janābah: 1&2-To eat and drink, but if he performs wuḍū, it is not makrūh.3- To recite more than seven verses of the holy Qur'an, even from the sūrahs that contain no obligatory sajdah.4- To come into contact with, through any part of the body, the cover or margins of the holy Qur'an, or the spaces between its lines, and carrying the holy Qur'an.5- To sleep without performing wuḍū.6- To dye one’s hair with henna, etc.7- To put oil or any kind of cream on one’s body.8- Having sexual intercourse after iḥtilām (i.e., seminal discharge in sleep).

Issue No.374- It is not necessary while performing ghusl, to make the intention of an obligatory ghusl nor a recommended one. It is sufficient if one performs the ghusl with the intention of qurbah (proximity to Allah (swt)) and complying with Allah’s order.

Issue No.403- Istiḥāḍah is often pale, cold and thin and is discharged without gush or irritation. It is, however, possible for it to be, at times, dark or red and it may also be warm and thick and may come out with gush and irritation.

Issue No.404- Istiḥāḍah is of two kinds only: qalīlah (little) and kathīrah (excessive). If a woman places cotton in her private part and blood remains on the surface of the cotton wool but does not come out from its other side, whether it penetrates it or not, it is qalīlah. And if the blood penetrates the cotton and passes through it and flows, it is called kathīrah.

Issue No. 406- If a woman has performed ghusl and wuḍū before the time of prayer, she must perform wuḍū and ghusl again at the time of prayer, as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No.407- If the qalīlah istiḥāḍah of a woman changes to kathīrah istiḥāḍah after fajr prayer, she should perform ghusl for ẓuhr and ‘aṣr prayers and if the blood changes to kathīrah case after ẓuhr and ‘aṣr, prayers she should perform ghusl for maghrib and ‘ishā’ prayers.

Issue No.409- If a woman does ghusl before the fajr adhān (in the case of kathīrah istiḥāḍah) or performs wuḍū (in the case of qalīlah istiḥāḍah) for Night Prayer and offers it, it no more is necessary to repeat ghusl or wuḍū. However, in the case of qalīlah istiḥāḍah if she sees blood again she should repeat wuḍū.

Issue No.412- If a woman does not know whether her istiḥāḍah is qalīlah or kathīrah she should check herself before prayer as an obligatory precaution, and if she cannot, she should, as an obligatory precaution, observe the rules of both qalīlah and kathīrah istiḥāḍahs. However, if she knows what her previous state of istiḥāḍah was, be it qalīlah or kathīrah, she can keep acting according to the rules prescribed for that kind of istiḥāḍah.

Issue No.415- A mustaḥāḍah should start the prayer immediately after ghusl or wuḍū, but there would be no harm in reciting adhān and iqāmah and the supplications before the prayer and even waiting to join congregational prayer for the time that is usual. Similarly, while offering prayer she can perform recommended acts like qunūt, etc.

Issue No.427- There are some signs for ḥayḍ. It is often thick and warm and its colour is either dark or red, and it is discharged with pressure and some irritation.

Issue No.428- Both sayyid and non-sayyid women reach menopause after the age of fifty lunar years [1] . That is to say, any blood in this age is seen is not ḥayḍ unless the blood has all the signs of ḥayḍ, in which case they should act accordingly.

Issue No.429- The blood seen by a girl before completion of nine years, or by a woman after she has reached menopause is not classified as ḥayḍ, and in case the blood does not come from a sore or a wound, it should be treated as istiḥāḍah, the rules of which were explained before.