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WOMEN’S PERIODS of HAID and NIFÂS
An important note: Ibni ’Âbidîn ‘rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ’ states
as follows in Menhel-ul-wâridîn: Every man who plans to enter
into a marriage has to learn about women’s menstrual (haid) and
puerperal (nifâs) periods, and teach them to his wife. It is farz for
every woman to learn the knowledge pertaining to haid and nifâs.
Mustafâ Fehîm bin ’Uthmân of Akshehr ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’,
one of the greatest Islamic scholars educated by the Ottoman
Empire, states as follows in the book entitled Murshid-un-nisâ:
Hayd is the discharge of blood from the front of a healthy girl
who has completed her eighth year of age or of a woman fifteen
days after the last day of her menstrual period. Blood of any colour
with the exception of white and with the inclusion of a turbid
colour is called blood of haid. A girl becomes bâligha, (i.e. she
reaches the age of puberty,) when she begins to menstruate. In
other words, she becomes a (grown-up) woman. From the moment
whereat the blood is seen until the time when the menses stops, the
number of the days in between is the period of âdat. A period of
âdat is fifteen days maximum. It is three days minimum. In the
Shâfi’î and Mâlikî Madhhabs, it is fifteen days maximum and one
day minimum.
A haid is not necessarily a non-stop flow of blood. If the first
seen bleeding stops and then is seen again a couple days later,
duration of purity short of three days in between is added to the
period of bleeding according to a consensus (of Islamic scholars).
Purity that lasts three days or longer, if it is over before the tenth
day of the haid, is, again, added to the days of bleeding, according
to Imâm Muhammad. These days of purity which are theoretically
days of bleeding are called (days of) fâsid purity. One day, in this
sense, means a length of time that lasts twenty-four hours exactly.
A girl who sees blood daily on the piece of cloth or cotton called
kursuf (sanitary towel, sanitary napkin) for months on end is
accepted to be menstruating for the first ten days and suffering
from istihâda (menorrhagia) for the next twenty days. On the
other hand, a woman who undergoes the same actual blood and
yet who formerly has had a certain period of âdat must follow her
former âdat. Supposing a girl sees blood for three days and does
not see any for the next one day and sees some for the next one
day and does not see any for the next two days and sees some again
for the next one day and does not see any for the next one day and
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