Should the questioner consider her next month's period to be the duration of her menstruation and what she discerned as menstrual blood, deeming the remainder as istihadah (post-menstrual bleeding), or should she count 15 days as menstruation and what follows as istihadah, given that her menstrual bleeding continued for 16 days, and she did not experience purity until the 14th day, after which she had a light return of blood?
Menstruation is considered 14 days if the bleeding continues and stops on the fourteenth day. If the bleeding resumes before the completion of 15 days, then menstruation is 15 days, and anything beyond that is considered istihada (non-menstrual bleeding). Yellowish and brownish discharges are not considered menstruation unless they occur within the period of one's regular menses or are connected to blood.
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