A woman afflicted with a condition that causes her hair to fall out when washed with water: what should she do? Should she leave off the ritual bath for menstruation and major ritual impurity, or what?
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The questioner : A woman afflicted with a condition that causes her hair to fall out when washed with water. What should she do: should she leave off the ritual bath for menstruation and major ritual impurity, or what?
The Shaykh : No, she must perform the full ritual bath for menstruation and major ritual impurity. The falling out of hair due to water is undoubtedly a disease and an illness. And Allah has not sent down a disease without sending down a cure for it. So let her consult the doctors, perhaps they will find something that holds the hair in place when water passes over it. And I fear that this woman has something of obsessive-compulsive disorder (waswas) with her, and that she scratches her head with force and intensity when performing the ritual bath, and the hair falls out. Yes.
The Shaykh : No, she must perform the full ritual bath for menstruation and major ritual impurity. The falling out of hair due to water is undoubtedly a disease and an illness. And Allah has not sent down a disease without sending down a cure for it. So let her consult the doctors, perhaps they will find something that holds the hair in place when water passes over it. And I fear that this woman has something of obsessive-compulsive disorder (waswas) with her, and that she scratches her head with force and intensity when performing the ritual bath, and the hair falls out. Yes.