How Should I Pray During Prolonged Bleeding That Disrupts My Menstrual Habit?
Hanafi Fiqh
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
How should I manage my prayers while experiencing prolonged bleeding due to pituitary adenoma and hormonal treatment, especially when my habitual period does not align with the 10-day menses and 15-day purity rules?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate.
I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.
Identify your usual menstrual cycle. If you had a regular cycle before your medical condition, follow that pattern. For example, if your cycle typically lasts 7 days, consider those 7 days the duration of menstruation. If your cycle is unknown or has changed significantly, refer to the maximum menstrual period, which is 10 days according to the Hanafi school and 15 days of purity. [Naielah Ackbarali, The Woman’s Guide to Menstruation Rulings]
General Advice – Record Your Menses
A woman’s habit is her body’s usual pattern of when blood and purity are seen during the month and for how many days.
Every woman must record her menses, lochia, and purity habits. The date and time any vaginal blood begins, including the spotting of blood, and the date and time any vaginal blood ends. [Ibid.]
It is a personal obligation (fard) for every adult woman to learn the basic rules of menstruation and to ask, as you’ve done, in the case of a complicated or unique situation. The following two books: A translation and explanation of Imam Birgivi’s treatise “The Treasure of Families & Women” (Dhukhr al-Muta’ahhilin wa al-Nisa’) on the advanced fiqh of menstruation, lochia, and abnormal bleeding, and “A Muslim Woman’s Guide to Menstruation Rulings” are two good books. They are in English and have many practical examples, life experiences, and even illustrative charts to calculate menstruation. See the links below.
I would like you to go through the valuable answers and links below. Insha’Allah, you will receive guidance and direction.
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- Myhayd App | First Ever Islamic Period Tracking App Personalized For Muslim Women
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Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat
Mawlana Ilyas Patel has received traditional education in various countries. He started his schooling in the UK and completed his hifz of the Quran in India. After that, he joined an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied secular and Aalimiyya sciences. Later, he traveled to Karachi, Pakistan, and other Middle Eastern countries to further his education. Mawlana has served as an Imam in the Republic of Ireland for several years and taught the Quran and other Islamic sciences to both children and adults. He also worked as a teacher and librarian at a local Islamic seminary in the UK for 12 years. Presently, he lives in the UK with his wife and is interested in books and gardening.
