Are the yellowish, intermittent, and insubstantial discharges, which resemble a shimmer, considered menstrual blood or natural secretions? Is the water used for cleansing (istinja’) that touches clothes and the body after ghusl considered impure if these discharges are yellowish? Is it obligatory to wear a sanitary pad for every prayer and change it at every prayer, even if nothing is discharged? Is it obligatory to change underwear if it gets stained with yellowness and there is doubt about its transfer to other clothes? Does something other than the discharge of yellowness, like passing gas, invalidate ablution, requiring changing the pad, performing istinja’, and redoing ablution? Is it permissible to pray with a previous ablution without new istinja’ if nothing was discharged and the yellowness stopped? What is the ruling on performing ghusl with a barrier in the navel that was not completely removed?

Yellow discharge (ṣufra) is impure (najis). If it is connected to menstruation (hayd), then it is considered hayd. However, if a woman sees purity (ṭuhr) and then sees it, it is not considered hayd. If the blood and any associated yellow or brownish discharge (kudra) exceed fifteen days, then it is considered irregular bleeding (istiḥāḍa). In this case, she should act according to her previous habit or by distinguishing (between menstrual and non-menstrual blood). During istiḥāḍa, the majority of scholars hold that she must perform ablution (wuḍūʾ) for every prayer. However, according to the Malikis, ablution is not invalidated except by the usual nullifiers. For a woman suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (waswasa), it is permissible to follow the Maliki view regarding this, and regarding the non-necessity of guarding oneself (from discharge) or performing istinjāʾ (cleansing) from yellow discharge, and that dirt originating from the body does not harm purity.