Ruling on a menstruating woman reciting the Qur'an
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Question:
What is the ruling on a menstruating woman reciting the Qur'an without touching the mushaf?
Answer:
There is scholarly disagreement on this issue, and the closest and most apparent view is that there is no harm; because the duration of menstruation is long, and it is not like the state of major ritual impurity, which is short, where one performs the full ritual bath and then reads. As for the menstruating woman and the woman with post-natal bleeding, their durations are long, and the stronger and more correct view is that there is no harm on them in reciting from memory. This is the principle. It is not permissible to analogize menstruation to major ritual impurity, because the duration of menstruation is long, and the duration of post-natal bleeding is even longer. As for the hadith:Sunan al-Bayhaqi 1:386, it is a weak hadith that does not serve as a proof.
The stronger view is that there is no harm on her—meaning the menstruating woman—in reciting from memory, but she should not recite from the mushaf, rather from memory. Likewise, the woman with post-natal bleeding is even more so in this regard. As for the one in a state of major ritual impurity, he does not recite the Qur'an, neither from memory nor from the mushaf, until he performs the full ritual bath, due to the authentic hadith that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:, and in another hadith, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) recited some verses and then said: .
What is the ruling on a menstruating woman reciting the Qur'an without touching the mushaf?
Answer:
There is scholarly disagreement on this issue, and the closest and most apparent view is that there is no harm; because the duration of menstruation is long, and it is not like the state of major ritual impurity, which is short, where one performs the full ritual bath and then reads. As for the menstruating woman and the woman with post-natal bleeding, their durations are long, and the stronger and more correct view is that there is no harm on them in reciting from memory. This is the principle. It is not permissible to analogize menstruation to major ritual impurity, because the duration of menstruation is long, and the duration of post-natal bleeding is even longer. As for the hadith:
A menstruating woman does not recite anything from the Qur'an.
لا تقرأ الحائض شيئا من القرآنThe stronger view is that there is no harm on her—meaning the menstruating woman—in reciting from memory, but she should not recite from the mushaf, rather from memory. Likewise, the woman with post-natal bleeding is even more so in this regard. As for the one in a state of major ritual impurity, he does not recite the Qur'an, neither from memory nor from the mushaf, until he performs the full ritual bath, due to the authentic hadith that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Nothing prevented him from the Qur'an except major ritual impurity.
كان لا يمنعه شيء من القرآن إلا الجنابةThis is for one who is not in a state of major ritual impurity, but the one in a state of major ritual impurity does not, not even a verse.
هذا لمن ليس جنبا، أما الجنب فلا، ولا آية
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