Can a Woman with Irregular Cycles Apply Imam Birgivi’s Rule Differently for Hardship?
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
Can a woman with irregular cycles (menses habit: 9 days, Tuhr: 17–21 days) apply Imam Birgivi’s rule differently to account for hardship? For example, can she stop praying during what she knows is her menses, even if this overlaps with the first days of her habit, to avoid undue difficulty caused by heavy bleeding and pain?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
If you notice that your menstrual cycle has started early, you will consider it an early onset of menstruation. You will stop as normal you would do when menses start.
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. [Naielah Ackbarali, The Woman’s Guide to Menstruation Rulings]
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’ahhilīn wa al-Nisā’) on the advanced fiqh of menstruation, lochia, and abnormal bleeding and A Muslim Womans 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. In sha Allah, you will receive guidance and direction.
– How to Calculate the Purity Period between Two …What Are the Rulings on Different Vaginal Discharges?
– istihadha Archives
– Menstruation: A Comprehensive Reader – SeekersGuidance
– The Treasures of Family and Women
– A Muslim Woman’s Guide To Menstruation Rulings: Amazon.co.uk: Ackbarali, Naielah: 9781739599911: Books (Detailed Edition -Recommended book)
– myhayd.app | First Ever Islamic Period Tracking App Personalized For Muslim Women | Hayd Tuhr Istihadah Nifaas Pregnancy
– FREE Fiqh of Menstruation Video Series
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– Basic Fiqh of Menstruation
– Fiqh Of Menstruation For Women
I pray this helps with your question.
[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.
