Is it permissible for the ghusl from ritual impurity (janabah) to be valid if it was intended for both janabah and menstruation, and then menstrual bleeding resumed afterward?
A ritual bath () from menstruation or (state of ritual impurity following sexual activity) lifts the state of ritual impurity (). If bleeding resumes, the woman is considered menstruating again, not in a state of Janabah, because the Janabah was lifted by the ghusl. The period of purity intervening within the menstrual cycle is a valid state of purity. A menstruating woman is not obliged to perform ghusl for Janabah until her menstruation ends. However, if she performs ghusl for Janabah during her menstrual period, her ghusl is valid, and the ruling of Janabah is lifted, but she remains in a state of menstruation. The benefit of this becomes apparent in the permissibility of reciting the Quran for a menstruating woman after performing ghusl for Janabah, if it is held that a menstruating woman is permitted to recite the Quran while it is forbidden for someone in a state of Janabah, as is the view of the Maliki school and Ibn Taymiyyah.
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