Is a woman in postnatal bleeding (nifas) required to pray and fast after the cessation of nifas bleeding, if bleeding occurs five months after childbirth?
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When a woman experiences purity, (ritual bath) becomes obligatory upon her. If bleeding recurs within a period that can be considered menstruation, she is again considered a menstruating woman and must refrain from fasting and prayer until the bleeding stops, whereupon she performs ghusl. It is a condition that the duration of the first bleeding, the recurrent bleeding, and the period of purity in between them does not exceed fifteen days.
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