If blood has signs of ‘haidh’ for 8 days...

If blood has signs of ‘haidh’ for 8 days, no signs for 5 days, and the blood flow lasts 13 days, then 8 days is haidh and 5 days is istihadha. If blood has no signs at all and the flow lasts 13 days, then she should consider 7 days as ‘haidh’ and the remaining days as ‘istihadha’. Different Types of Menstruation Type 1: This woman is clean the whole month, and only sees blood during the days of menstruation.

Type 2: This woman sees blood (spotting) the whole month, but during the days of haidh the blood has signs of haidh. Type 3: This woman is clean the whole month, but during the days of haidh, she sees blood for a couple of days, then there is no blood for a day or two, and then she sees blood again. If this routine continues for 10 days then it is all haidh. This is as per Imam Khomeini.

📌Note: As per Ayatullah Seestani the days within the period of haidh when one does not see blood should be considered as ‘Jum` ‘, Ihtiyat-e-Wajib, (please refer glossary for the meaning of jum` and Ihtiyat-e-Wajib ). Qadha Salat Performing salat is haram while a woman is in haidh, but as soon as she feels that she is done with haidh then she should pray within the time for salat. Below are some problem scenarios and some solutions: This woman was clean and delayed salat and then got ‘haidh’.

This woman needs to do Qadha for this Salat when she is done with haidh, As she did not pray on time that day and she delayed when she could have prayed on time. This woman had her period and when it stopped, she had just enough time to take the ritual bath and do wudhu and pray. She delayed it, hence the time for Salat passed. She must do Qadha Salat because she had enough time to take the ritual bath, wudhu and pray but she did not.

This woman was clean then she saw blood, so she thought it was haidh. Then later she realized that it was not haidh. She should do Qadha prayers for all the prayers she missed. Things that are Haram (prohibited) in ‘Haidh’ (Menses) Worship for which wudhu is required, for example, Salat, Fasting, and Tawaaf of Ka’aba. Sexual relationship All the actions that are haram in the state of janabat: It’s Haraam to enter Masjid ul Haram and Masjid un Nabi.

Stopping in other mosques and the shrines of Imams is Haraam. Passing through one door and coming out through another door is okay as long as one does not stop in a Masjid or Shrine of Imams. Placing something in the mosque is Haraam, but picking up something is no problem, according to Imam Khomeini.

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