Worship During Menstruation
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What acts of worship are permissible for a woman to perform during her menstruation, such as reading the Qur’an, seeking forgiveness (Istighfar), glorifying God (Tasbeeh), and others?
Is it permissible to pray in a shirt that has the name of an alcoholic beverage on it?
What should a woman do if her husband insists on having (incomplete intercourse) with her during her menstrual cycle in its last days, and does she share in the sin, knowing that the intercourse is only external and there is no blood, but rather brown discharge, and is it permissible for her to bathe before intercourse in this case and then complete her cycle and bathe again?
Is the brown blood that appeared a day before Ramadan and then stopped, then reappeared on the fifth day of Ramadan and continued until the ninth day, considered menstruation? And must the first four days of Ramadan, which were fasted in a state of purity, be made up?
Is blood discharged after intercourse on the seventh day of menstruation considered menstrual blood, and is expiation obligatory for the wife who did not inform her husband of that?
Is the money the questioner receives from the Canadian state permissible, knowing that she is no longer legally married to the man, and her husband says that her taking the money is unlawful, and she has no other source of income?
What is incumbent upon me regarding the two aforementioned Umrahs, taking into consideration the circumstances of each?
What is the expiation for a woman whose husband had intercourse with her during the daytime in Ramadan, and she is unable to fast two consecutive months due to weakness and menstruation?
What is innovation (bid‘ah) in light of the Quran, Sunnah, and jurisprudence, especially Hanafi jurisprudence?
Is it permissible for a wife to wear clothes that reveal her physical charms in front of her fasting husband during her menstrual period, and is it permissible for her to re-wear the outer clothes she wore during her menstrual period without washing them after purification?
Is it permissible to continue fasting upon the discharge of a few transparent, light red drops?
Is it permissible for a husband to masturbate over his wife without touching her, or swallowing semen, or placing the penis between her breasts for masturbation?
How is a debt repaid after striking the cheeks?
What is the ruling on yellow discharge (ṣufrah) and brownish discharge (kudrah) before and after menstruation?
Can a silicone menstrual cup be used while fasting and praying, knowing that I suffer from metrorrhagia and that pads and tampons cause me dryness and itching?
What is the ruling on fasting the two days during which pink discharge and yellowish discharge appeared without certainty of menstruation, followed by complete dryness and the intention to fast despite doubt, and then the onset of explicit menstruation three days later? And does the lack of firm intention on the second day of fasting invalidate the fast?
What should I do about water mixed with a small amount of menstrual blood? Is it obligatory to perform istinja' after menstrual blood? And is it sufficient to use only paper tissues for istinja' after urinating and defecating during menstruation?
Is there any Sharia impediment to undergoing a sleeve gastrectomy during menstruation, knowing the difficulty of changing the appointment in a Western country?
What is the ruling on moving between the different aspects of applying the Sunnah—such as the number of times one washes the hands during ablution—or moving between the four schools of thought, with the intention of adhering to the Sunnah?
What is the ruling on a husband touching his wife's anus, perhaps with a superficial penetration unintentionally by both parties, and what is the expiation for that? Is direct contact with the anus from the outside permissible during menstruation and at other times?
Is it permissible for a wife to seek divorce for the sake of honoring her mother, knowing that she has an infant daughter and another young child, and that her husband disapproves of her frequent visits to her mother?
Is the onset of menstruation outside its regular time on the day of Tasu'a or Ashura a sign of Allah's wrath and a deprivation from fasting?
Is the feeling that acts of worship are not accepted by Allah Almighty considered a [satanic] whisper (waswas), and how can one get rid of it?
Is a divorce that was verbally issued twice during a period of purity in which the wife was engaged in intercourse valid, and what is the ruling on a revocably divorced woman going out with her ex-husband during the waiting period before the decision on reconciliation is made?