Is it permissible for me to pray now, and am I sinful for not praying on previous days when I thought the brown discharge and light bleeding were menstruation after taking a birth control injection?
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The blood that flows or returns within the forty days after childbirth is considered (postnatal bleeding), and it prohibits prayer, fasting, and all other acts that require ritual purity.
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