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I am in the postpartum period and there is no blood, so do I pray?

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The duration of post-natal bleeding (nifas) is forty days according to most scholars, and there is no minimum limit for its duration. So, if the bleeding stops, even a moment after childbirth, the woman must perform ghusl (ritual bath), pray, and fast.

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