The postpartum woman and the menstruating woman reading the Qur'an for review
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner:
May Allah reward you. A postpartum woman who has memorized the Qur'an reviews it from a tafsir book so that she does not forget it?
The Shaykh:
The Qur'an. Peace be upon you.
Another questioner:
A postpartum woman.
The Shaykh:
Yes, there is no harm in her reading it to prevent forgetting, and the same applies to the menstruating woman, because it is not like the state of major ritual impurity (janabah), which is a short duration. One may read, but the duration of menstruation is long, and the postpartum period is even longer. Therefore, there is no blame on her for reading the Qur'an, especially if she is memorizing it. As for if she is memorizing it, it is like...
May Allah reward you. A postpartum woman who has memorized the Qur'an reviews it from a tafsir book so that she does not forget it?
The Shaykh:
The Qur'an. Peace be upon you.
Another questioner:
A postpartum woman.
The Shaykh:
Yes, there is no harm in her reading it to prevent forgetting, and the same applies to the menstruating woman, because it is not like the state of major ritual impurity (janabah), which is a short duration. One may read, but the duration of menstruation is long, and the postpartum period is even longer. Therefore, there is no blame on her for reading the Qur'an, especially if she is memorizing it. As for if she is memorizing it, it is like...
Source
شرح كتاب وظائف رمضان، تتمة «فصل: في فضل صوم شهر رمضان» إلى «فصل: التراويح سُنَّة» — islamhouse.com (29:21)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.