- When she starts bleeding at the time of her temporary period...

●When she starts bleeding at the time of her temporary period, or before her regular period, say one or two days earlier. * How should a woman be described as having a temporary period? - She could be described as such when the period blood appears twice in any period of two months or more. * How do you describe a woman who does not fit the two categories mentioned above, such as the young woman who experiences period blood for the first time, or a woman with an irregular period?

●A woman in any of the two examples you’ve just quoted can describe herself as having a period when one of the following two conditions arize: 1. For the blood to be termed as menstrual blood, it should be red or black in colour, warm, and could pour out profusely. 2. When the woman is sure the blood continues for three uninterrupted days and over. * Well, suppose she thought that it was period blood according to point one. Accordingly, she stopped performing prayer.

However, the bleeding stopped before the lapse of the three-day period. What should she do? - She should perform prayer in lieu of the period of bleeding. * If the bleeding continues for ten days or less, but exceeds the duration of her normal period? - She can still be considered as having period throughout the duration of the bleeding, albeit some of the blood can no longer satisfy the conditions of period blood.

* What if the woman has regular periods, in both the number of days and the date of the period, yet the bleeding continues for more than ten days? - She should observe the bleeding that coincides with the duration of her period only as that of menstruation. * Suppose the same woman failed to have her period on time, then the blood appeared and continued for more than ten days. However, some of the blood bore the characteristics of period blood, some of it did not.

Which one should be treated as haydh? - The first one. Yet she should take into account the number of days of her previous normal period. If that part of the blood that fulfils the conditions of period blood was less than the number of days of a normal period, she should complete it by adding the remaining days of that part of the blood that did not satisfy the conditions of period blood.

If, however, the bleeding she was experiencing satisfied the criteria of period blood, she should stick to the number of days of her normal period and consider it haydh.

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