What's Forbidden During Menstruation and Postpartum?
Rulings of Menstruation and Postpartum Bleeding: Prohibitions and Exceptions
Summary
Sh. Ali Mashhour continues his discussion from Al-Wajeez on the rulings of menstruation and postpartum bleeding in Islamic jurisprudence. He explains that postpartum bleeding (nifas) has no minimum duration but a maximum of 40 days, after which a woman's legal status changes regardless of continued bleeding. Sh. Ali Mashhour outlines five prohibitions for a menstruating or postpartum woman: prayer, fasting, reciting the Quran, handling the physical Mushaf, and sexual intercourse. He clarifies exceptions and alternatives, noting that reading Quranic text from electronic devices, handling a translation, or using gloves when touching the Mushaf are permissible options.
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Alhamdulillah. Continuing in Alwaji in the book of purification regarding the rulings of Alif. So menration and postpartum the author after having introduced and introduced the rulings of each he goes into the two the things which are impermissible for a woman who is currently in a state of ministration or postpartum and now we mentioned yesterday that al doesn't have any maximum or minimum amount of time. It could be very long. It could be very short. It's different with different women. However, a nephes which is postpartum bleeding. This has no minimum. So it could be a day, could be two days, but it does have a maximum and the maximum is 40 days. At 40 days, she is no longer in a state of postpartum. Even if the blood continues past 40 days, this may be a medical issue. This may be you know known culturally as postpartum or you know aden but in the legislation of Islam it doesn't recognize it past 40 days. At 40 days 41 days she is no longer in a state of postpartum. She is now in the ruling of and we'll discuss this inshallah when we get there. He says what is the things which are impermissible for a woman in a state of ministration or postpartum. What is impermissible for her to do? The author takes a very strange turn here because he doesn't mention one thing that we added back at the beginning when we were discussing what is haram for a person in a state of hadith to do. Remember a person who does not have wudoo what is haram for him to do we mentioned how many things three things right we said salah and the Quran handling the Quran he didn't mention the third one right and here he doesn't mention that either because he builds on that he says.
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A state of hadith, minor hadith, what we just discussed, those three things, is haram for a woman who is in a state of with an addition of two things. Number one, fasting. Number two, inter intercourse. Fasting and intercourse. Those two become an addition to those two things he mentioned earlier. We mention them as three. So it becomes five things that is not permissible for a woman in a state of ministration or postpartum to do. He says as for fasting she is merely to skip those days and then make them up later. Make them up when she is clear of her or.
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The Muslim. So then he mentions the various evidences from the Quran and Sunnah regarding the prohibition of a woman in a state of h menration and fast postpartum. It is impermissible for her to pray and fast and make dwa and handle the mus and finally you know intercourse. Now what if a woman were to handle the mus that's like a book of we mentioned this before right? That's not the musaf, right? Musaf is what is mostly Quran or if she were to handle the English translation, this doesn't apply either. This is not considered the Quran in that sense. or for instance if she were to have gloves on when she handles the musf. Many scholars view this also as being permissible if it is the musf. But they all agree that reading the musaf, reading the Quran off of an electronic device, let's say an iPad or a computer or a telephone, that you do not have to have for that. And a woman may do that when she is in a state of menration or postpartum. So there's many options. The only thing which is impermissible is handling the physical mus that is mostly Quran. that is the only thing which is impermissible for her and for a person who is not have woo. foreign.
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I don't know what to do. victim.