Is a Woman Considered a Beginner after Seeing Blood After Post Natal Bleeding?
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
If a woman starts her period after a long pause, post-natal bleeding, and breastfeeding. When she first sees blood, do we treat her as a beginner, or do we consider her last habit before post-natal bleeding and pregnancy? If her previous habit was six days of menstruation, and she sees blood for a day after a gap of a few months, then she sees it again on day fourteen, how do we assign her days? Does she take precautionary ghusl on day ten? After the first day of bleeding ends, should she take a ghusl, or is wudu sufficient?
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.
You will follow your usual habit of six days after your post-natal bleeding period ends. However, in your case, you seem to have had irregular bleeding (istihada). Your bleeding stopped within a day. Disregard your fourteenth-day bleeding, too, as it has come less than fifteen days. Now you just wait for the regular habit of bleeding.
[Ackbarali, Naielah, A Muslim Woman’s Guide To Menstruation Rulings]
Advice
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 Muslim Woman’s Guide To Menstruation Rulings: Amazon.co.uk: Ackbarali, Naielah and Coming of Age by Ustadha Hedaya Hartford are very accessible books to learn these rulings. They are in English and have many practical examples, life experiences, and even illustrative charts to calculate menstruation.
I would like you to go through the valuable answers and links below. You will receive guidance and direction in sha Allah.
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- What Do I Do During Irregular Bleeding (Istihada)? – SeekersGuidance
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- Menstruation: A Comprehensive Reader – SeekersGuidance
- Fiqh-of-Menstruation.pdf (mensesmatters.org)
- Coming of Age by Hedaya Hartford (Recommended book)
- A Muslim Woman’s Guide To Menstruation Rulings: Amazon.co.uk: Ackbarali, Naielah(Detailed Edition -Recommended book)
- Fiqh of Menstruation Simplified: A Beginner’s Guide For Muslim Women: Amazon.co.uk: Ackbarali, Naielah(Simplified Edition)
- myhayd.app | First Ever Islamic Period Tracking App Personalized For Muslim Women | Hayd Tuhr Istihadah Nifaas Pregnancy
- FREE Fiqh of Menstruation Video Series
Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete the hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled in an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and ‘Aalimiyya sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan. He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for several years. He has taught hifz of the Quran, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to children and adults onsite and online extensively in the UK and Ireland. He taught at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences. He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His interest is a love of books and gardening.
