What is the ruling on using pills to prevent menstruation and the disruption of the cycle?
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Question : Let him take a turn, take a turn, take a turn, come on, let's go. One person says it is an ordinary question. Come on. May Allah reward you with good and keep you safe. The questioner says: I am a woman who does not pray for two days, and that is because I saw a little blood at night, not much, but sometimes two and a half hours, and it stops and returns at other times. Now it has turned slightly black. I have been taking pills to fill the medication for two months, and this is what made me doubt. I am waiting for your response. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer : The reality, my brothers, is that we are facing a calamity whose extent of harm we do not know, but the results reveal the degree of the harm. That is the pills that prevent menstruation. These pills, which have spread, harm our women, ruin their money, increase the wealth of the disbelievers, and strengthen their agents. These pills have corrupted the religion and the worldly affairs of our women. As for the religion, the cycle is disrupted. The natural monthly cycles that Allah created women upon and decreed for the daughters of Adam have now become disrupted; they increase at times, decrease at times, become dry at times, and disappear at times. All of this is because of these pills. Reliable doctors have told me that they may be a cause of uterine clotting, cracking, and fetal deformity. Based on the analogy I have, which may be a defective analogy considering that I do not have much knowledge of the matter, I say that using pills to prevent the cycle, which is a natural habit, is certainly a weakness. If you used something to prevent urination or defecation, and urination and defecation are natural, then the blood that affects the woman is also natural. Preventing the natural dispositions from their natural requirements is certainly harmful. Therefore, I warn our women from taking these pills whatever the reasons may be; there is no good in them. How many problems confuse us and also confuse the women that arise from eating these pills, including the case of this woman. I am unable to solve it by applying the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, but I say to her: go to the doctor and ask him to what extent these pills affect the monthly cycle?
He will explain it to you. But the true rule, regarding natural blood for which no treatment was taken to prevent it, is that if it increases, the increase is taken into account, and if it decreases, the excess is ignored. If her count is six days, and then she sees eight days in this month, or she sees four days, or six days, in the second month, then she performs the full ritual bath and prays, even if it is within the time of the previous cycle. As for these disturbances resulting from the pills, their matter is more with the doctors than with the jurists; indeed, she should return to the doctor.
The presenter : May Allah make you happy.
Answer : The reality, my brothers, is that we are facing a calamity whose extent of harm we do not know, but the results reveal the degree of the harm. That is the pills that prevent menstruation. These pills, which have spread, harm our women, ruin their money, increase the wealth of the disbelievers, and strengthen their agents. These pills have corrupted the religion and the worldly affairs of our women. As for the religion, the cycle is disrupted. The natural monthly cycles that Allah created women upon and decreed for the daughters of Adam have now become disrupted; they increase at times, decrease at times, become dry at times, and disappear at times. All of this is because of these pills. Reliable doctors have told me that they may be a cause of uterine clotting, cracking, and fetal deformity. Based on the analogy I have, which may be a defective analogy considering that I do not have much knowledge of the matter, I say that using pills to prevent the cycle, which is a natural habit, is certainly a weakness. If you used something to prevent urination or defecation, and urination and defecation are natural, then the blood that affects the woman is also natural. Preventing the natural dispositions from their natural requirements is certainly harmful. Therefore, I warn our women from taking these pills whatever the reasons may be; there is no good in them. How many problems confuse us and also confuse the women that arise from eating these pills, including the case of this woman. I am unable to solve it by applying the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, but I say to her: go to the doctor and ask him to what extent these pills affect the monthly cycle?
He will explain it to you. But the true rule, regarding natural blood for which no treatment was taken to prevent it, is that if it increases, the increase is taken into account, and if it decreases, the excess is ignored. If her count is six days, and then she sees eight days in this month, or she sees four days, or six days, in the second month, then she performs the full ritual bath and prays, even if it is within the time of the previous cycle. As for these disturbances resulting from the pills, their matter is more with the doctors than with the jurists; indeed, she should return to the doctor.
The presenter : May Allah make you happy.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 13 - 16 - دروس وفتاوى المسجد الحرام للعام 1413 هـ - الدرس الثالث عشر - الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين — youtube.com (58:13)
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