The things that are obligatory for a ḥāʾiḍ are also obligatory for a nufasāʾ. And based on obligatory precaution, the following are unlawful for a nufasāʾ: entering a mosque (however, merely passing through a mosque is permitted), staying in a mosque, passing through the ‘Two Mosques’ (i.e. Masjid al-Ḥarām and the Mosque of the Prophet (Ṣ)), reciting the verses that have obligatory sajdah,[1] and touching the writing of the Qur’an and the name of Allah the Exalted.

Ruling 503.* A divorce given to a woman who is in the state of nifās is invalid, and having sexual intercourse with a woman who is in the state of nifās is unlawful but it does not require one to give kaffārah.