Is it permissible for a woman, if her menstruation is intermittent, to hold the Qur'an and read it?
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Question:
Our sister asks, saying: I know that a woman during menstruation does not fast, does not pray, and does not touch the mushaf except in cases of urgent necessity. However, in the last days of the menstrual period, the blood is intermittent and does not continue throughout the day or the whole day, but only for periods. Is she in those periods…
Answer:
The issue of intermittent menstruation during sleep, or a brief period of purity occurring, or the blood stopping during the usual period, does not make her outside the period, nor does it make her pure from menstruation. Because this purity is incidental and brief. Does it have the ruling of menstruation? A menstruating woman does not read the Qur'an except out of necessity, except the necessity of reading it, such as if she is memorizing the Qur'an or part of it, and she fears she will forget her memorization; then she may read the Qur'an in order for it to remain in her memory and to preserve it, even if she is menstruating; because this is considered a state of dire necessity; because if she left reading it during this period, she would forget it.
Likewise, for example, a student during an exam, if for example a Qur'an exam is missed by her, resulting in her failing the exam, this is harm upon her, so she may read to the extent of necessity, even if she is menstruating, but without touching the mushaf, because she reads either from memory, or from the mushaf, but from behind a menstruating woman, because she opens the mushaf from behind a menstruating woman, looks at it, and reads. Yes. May Allah reward you with good.
Our sister asks, saying: I know that a woman during menstruation does not fast, does not pray, and does not touch the mushaf except in cases of urgent necessity. However, in the last days of the menstrual period, the blood is intermittent and does not continue throughout the day or the whole day, but only for periods. Is she in those periods…
Answer:
The issue of intermittent menstruation during sleep, or a brief period of purity occurring, or the blood stopping during the usual period, does not make her outside the period, nor does it make her pure from menstruation. Because this purity is incidental and brief. Does it have the ruling of menstruation? A menstruating woman does not read the Qur'an except out of necessity, except the necessity of reading it, such as if she is memorizing the Qur'an or part of it, and she fears she will forget her memorization; then she may read the Qur'an in order for it to remain in her memory and to preserve it, even if she is menstruating; because this is considered a state of dire necessity; because if she left reading it during this period, she would forget it.
Likewise, for example, a student during an exam, if for example a Qur'an exam is missed by her, resulting in her failing the exam, this is harm upon her, so she may read to the extent of necessity, even if she is menstruating, but without touching the mushaf, because she reads either from memory, or from the mushaf, but from behind a menstruating woman, because she opens the mushaf from behind a menstruating woman, looks at it, and reads. Yes. May Allah reward you with good.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز للمرأة إذا كان الحيض متقطع أن تمسك القرآن وتقرأ؟ الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان — youtube.com
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