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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Making up the prayer for one who abandoned it due to the onset of bleeding after taking medication

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Question:
The sister questioner, Umm Nasser, says that she caused the onset of menstrual bleeding because she took a medication prescribed by her doctor, so she abandoned the prayer for a week. Does she have to make up the prayer for those days?

Answer:
Yes, she left off the prayer. Whether she left it off because of menstruation or for any other reason, whoever leaves off any of the obligatory acts must make them up. However, a menstruating woman does not have to make up the prayers, provided it is established that the blood that came out of her is menstrual blood. She does not have to make them up, because a menstruating woman is not required to pray during the period of menstruation. But if this blood is not menstrual blood, but rather bleeding from the uterus due to medication or something else, and it is known that it is not menstrual blood, then she does not leave off the prayer because of it. If she did leave it off, she must make it up.
Source نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/150 — archive.org (3:26)

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