The ruling on the prayer of a woman whose menstruation is prolonged due to a uterine tumor
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Question:
This questioner says: Your Eminence the Shaykh, I hope you will supplicate for my recovery and healing. I am a woman, and my Lord has afflicted me with a tumor in the uterus, and praise be to Allah. My menstruation days have changed and started to become longer than before. However, after a relatively long period, I find purity, so I become pure and pray. My question is: I am trying to determine the onset of purity within a period of fifteen days, and, praise be to Allah, purity does come to me within these fifteen days, though in varying amounts. Am I correct in trying to determine purity, or should I simply count my previous menstruation days and pray while the blood is present? I should mention that if I pray in this state, I feel distressed and fear that I will not be in a state of ritual purity. What should I do?
Answer:
We ask Allah for your healing and well-being. You must leave off the prayer on the days of your usual period. As for the remaining days when there is blood, pray when the time for prayer enters. Whenever the time enters, perform wudu' (ablution) and pray, and protect yourself with a pad or something similar in the private area to contain the blood. Pray at every time in its proper time, just as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded the women with irregular bleeding: when the time enters, perform wudu', protect yourself with something, clean yourself, and protect yourself. Perform wudu' and pray until the time ends. When the time ends and the next time enters, do the same: protect yourself with something like cotton, clean yourself, protect yourself, perform wudu', and pray until the time ends. Do this at every time as long as the blood is with you throughout the year. As for the days of the usual period—whether seven, six, five, or eight days—do not pray on these days; leave off the prayer on them, because they are the days of menstruation. This is how the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) taught the female Companions when they asked him. Yes. Allah.
This questioner says: Your Eminence the Shaykh, I hope you will supplicate for my recovery and healing. I am a woman, and my Lord has afflicted me with a tumor in the uterus, and praise be to Allah. My menstruation days have changed and started to become longer than before. However, after a relatively long period, I find purity, so I become pure and pray. My question is: I am trying to determine the onset of purity within a period of fifteen days, and, praise be to Allah, purity does come to me within these fifteen days, though in varying amounts. Am I correct in trying to determine purity, or should I simply count my previous menstruation days and pray while the blood is present? I should mention that if I pray in this state, I feel distressed and fear that I will not be in a state of ritual purity. What should I do?
Answer:
We ask Allah for your healing and well-being. You must leave off the prayer on the days of your usual period. As for the remaining days when there is blood, pray when the time for prayer enters. Whenever the time enters, perform wudu' (ablution) and pray, and protect yourself with a pad or something similar in the private area to contain the blood. Pray at every time in its proper time, just as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded the women with irregular bleeding: when the time enters, perform wudu', protect yourself with something, clean yourself, and protect yourself. Perform wudu' and pray until the time ends. When the time ends and the next time enters, do the same: protect yourself with something like cotton, clean yourself, protect yourself, perform wudu', and pray until the time ends. Do this at every time as long as the blood is with you throughout the year. As for the days of the usual period—whether seven, six, five, or eight days—do not pray on these days; leave off the prayer on them, because they are the days of menstruation. This is how the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) taught the female Companions when they asked him. Yes. Allah.
Source
فتاوى المسجد الحرام (شعبان ١٤١٧ هـ) - ٥ — archive.org (57:36)
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