Is it permissible for a menstruating woman to recite supplications that include Quranic verses in Arafat?
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It is permissible for a menstruating woman (ha'idh) and a woman in postpartum bleeding () to recite supplications and Hajj rituals, as well as to recite the Qur’an by heart without touching the . This is because there is no explicit text preventing them from doing so, unlike the one who is in a state of major ritual impurity (junub). This is the correct view and the sounder of the two opinions of scholars.
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