Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

Madhhab although it is not a hindrance against following his own
Madhhab (in the face of that new problem), his following both
Madhhabs will not be telfîq, although it would not be sahîh
according to either Madhhab were it not for the (compelling
situation called) ’udhr.] As another Madhhab is being imitated, it
is necessary to obey the other Madhhab in performing the acts of
farz and avoiding the acts of mufsid in the system of the other
Madhhab, even though the rules pertaining to those acts may be
quite the other way round, e.g. harâm, in your own Madhhab.
Your Madhhab’s saying, “harâm,” about them will not apply to
your case (so long as your imitation continues).” A person who
practises telfîq of Madhhabs will be punished with ta’zîr. Please
see the book entitled Seyf-ul-ebrâr, (by Muhammad ’Abd-ur-
Rahmân Silhetî, an India scholar!)
[In the Mâlikî Madhhab, red, yellowish or turbid blood that
issues from the front of a girl that has reached the age of nine is
called the blood of haid (menorrhoea). It is haid as soon as the
bleeding starts. As the bleeding continues, it is menstrual until
immediately before the fifteenth day, and its continuation
thereafter, (as it may be the case,) is judged to be istihâda
(menorrhagia). If her ’âdat changes the next month, her new ’âdat
is the longer period of menstruation she has so far had plus three
days. Bleeding that continues thereafter, as well as bleeding that
continues after the fifteenth day in any case, becomes istihâda.
When the kursuf (pad, tampon, sanitary towel) is found to be dry,
or colourless although it may be wet, this case must be taken as the
end of the menstrual period. Bleeding that a woman past the age
of seventy undergoes is not haid; it is istihâda. In case a woman’s
bleeding continues intermittenly, the days spent without bleeding
are to be taken as days of purity. The number of running days of
purity is fifteen minimum. Bleeding that recurs before these fifteen
days is istihâda. Such days of purity are infinite, (i.e. there is not a
maximum limit.) If a bleeding stops and recurs fifteen days later, it
is haid. Bleeding undergone before a childbirth is haid. If the baby
is lifted out of the woman’s womb through an opening cut in her
abdomen, the bleeding that occurs in the immediate aftermath is
not nifâs (puerperal discharge). Puerperal period is sixty days
maximum. If the puerperal bleeding stops and does not recur
within the following fifteen days, (the puerperal period has ended
and) the woman undergoing nifâs has become tâhir (clean,
purified). Bleeding that occurs thereafter is haid.]
A person who commits qazf by way of allusion and/or
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