The Ruling on a Menstruating Woman or a Woman with Post-Natal Bleeding Touching the Mushaf

Question:
This questioner says, O Shaykh: Is it permissible for a menstruating woman, or a woman with post-natal bleeding, to touch the mushaf and read from it? And is it also permissible for her to enter the mosque to receive Islamic knowledge while she is menstruating?

Answer:
She is not allowed to sit in the mosque, nor is she allowed to touch the mushaf while she is menstruating until she becomes ritually pure. However, if there is a pressing need to touch it through gloves, or through a barrier, to review a verse or something similar, there is nothing wrong with it. As for touching it without a barrier, no. She is not allowed to do that; because her state of major ritual impurity is like that of a person in a state of major ritual impurity (janabah), and a person in a state of major ritual impurity does not read, nor does he touch the mushaf.
As for the menstruating woman, she is allowed to read because of the length of the period, and the woman with post-natal bleeding is likewise, according to the correct opinion, allowed to read from memory. But she does not touch the mushaf unless there is a pressing need to review a verse; in that case, there is nothing wrong with touching it through a barrier. Yes.