What is the ruling on a woman who sees drops of blood at dawn, sees white fluid in the middle of the day, and sees drops at dawn?
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The questioner : This woman has an enlargement of the ovaries, so the period comes with her as drops at dawn, and during the day a white fluid comes down from which she sees purity.
The Shaykh : What does she see?
The questioner : A white fluid comes down during the day from which she sees purity, and then from dawn... to 'Isha' as well... she sees these drops, and so on for four days. So when she saw the doctor, she said this is what comes down as menstrual blood. What is its ruling?
The Shaykh : The fluid, the drops, and the two drops, he says they are nothing; it must flow.
The questioner : But this is what happened.
The Shaykh : It is narrated from 'Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "What is like the drops of a nosebleed is not menstruation"
The questioner : Even if it has the signs of menstruation?
The Shaykh : Yes, it must be menstruation, but she says this is the cause of what?
The questioner : An enlargement of the ovaries; she has an enlargement of the ovaries... we ask Allah for well-being.
The Shaykh : In any case, the original state is that menstruation is what flows; its derivation indicates that it must flow.
The questioner : And what do I tell her, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Tell her it is not better for her to pray; the original state is the absence of menstruation.
The questioner : And she does not perform ghusl for it.
The Shaykh : And she does not perform ghusl, yes, if it is not [menstruation], then she does not perform ghusl for it.
The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
The Shaykh : Okay, this woman feels the pains and aches of menstruation.
The questioner : ... cramps in the abdomen and so on.
The Shaykh : And drops...
The questioner : ... and perhaps drops in the afternoon, and she still, whenever there are drops, she performs ghusl, she performs ghusl...
The Shaykh : This is hardship; this is hardship, and the drops are not menstruation.
The questioner : This is the custom, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : It is in the custom.
The Shaykh : It is in the custom; this is the custom. It is in the custom that the drops are not menstruation, yes.
The reader: Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and all his Companions. Al-Bukhari (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Chapter on what is mentioned regarding the transmission of knowledge, and the book of the people of knowledge in knowledge to the lands"
The Shaykh : It appears we did not complete the first hadith; we did not complete the benefits.
The Shaykh : What does she see?
The questioner : A white fluid comes down during the day from which she sees purity, and then from dawn... to 'Isha' as well... she sees these drops, and so on for four days. So when she saw the doctor, she said this is what comes down as menstrual blood. What is its ruling?
The Shaykh : The fluid, the drops, and the two drops, he says they are nothing; it must flow.
The questioner : But this is what happened.
The Shaykh : It is narrated from 'Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "What is like the drops of a nosebleed is not menstruation"
The questioner : Even if it has the signs of menstruation?
The Shaykh : Yes, it must be menstruation, but she says this is the cause of what?
The questioner : An enlargement of the ovaries; she has an enlargement of the ovaries... we ask Allah for well-being.
The Shaykh : In any case, the original state is that menstruation is what flows; its derivation indicates that it must flow.
The questioner : And what do I tell her, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Tell her it is not better for her to pray; the original state is the absence of menstruation.
The questioner : And she does not perform ghusl for it.
The Shaykh : And she does not perform ghusl, yes, if it is not [menstruation], then she does not perform ghusl for it.
The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
The Shaykh : Okay, this woman feels the pains and aches of menstruation.
The questioner : ... cramps in the abdomen and so on.
The Shaykh : And drops...
The questioner : ... and perhaps drops in the afternoon, and she still, whenever there are drops, she performs ghusl, she performs ghusl...
The Shaykh : This is hardship; this is hardship, and the drops are not menstruation.
The questioner : This is the custom, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : It is in the custom.
The Shaykh : It is in the custom; this is the custom. It is in the custom that the drops are not menstruation, yes.
The reader: Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and all his Companions. Al-Bukhari (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Chapter on what is mentioned regarding the transmission of knowledge, and the book of the people of knowledge in knowledge to the lands"
The Shaykh : It appears we did not complete the first hadith; we did not complete the benefits.