Haydh Part 2

* Woman having the habit of time and duration: A woman who sees blood in each of the two consecutive months at a particular time and for a fixed number of days. For example, in each month blood may be seen from the 1st up to the 7th of the month. 

Haydh Part 2

Types of women in Haydh

- There are six types: 

* Woman having the habit of time and duration: A woman who sees blood in each of the two consecutive months at a particular time and for a fixed number of days. For example, in each month blood may be seen from the 1st up to the 7th of the month. 

* Woman having the habit of time: A woman who sees blood in each of the two consecutive months at a particular time but the number of days varies. For example, in two consecutive months her blood starts coming on the 1st of the month but she becomes clean on the 7th day in the first month and on the 8th day in the second month. 

* Woman having the habit of duration: A woman who sees blood in each of the two consecutive months for a particular number of days but the time of commencement is not the same. For example, in the first month the blood is seen from the 5th to the 10th of the month and in the second month from the 12th to the 17th of that month. 

* Muztariba: A woman who has seen blood for a few months but who has not formed a habit or whose former habit has been disturbed and has not formed a new one. 

* Mubtadiya: A woman who sees blood for the first time. 

Nasiya: A woman who has forgotten her habit.

 Some further details are given below about Haaez

- Women having the habit of time and duration are of two types: 

A woman who sees blood in two consecutive months at a particular time for a particular duration. For example, she sees blood on the 1st of each month and becomes clean on the 7th of each month. Her habit of Haydh will be from first to seventh of every month. 

A woman who sees blood in each of the two consecutive months at a particular time and after 3 or more days she may be Clean for one or more days and the blood is seen again; but the total number of days during which the blood is seen as well as those during which she remains Clean does not exceed 10 days; and in each month the total number of days during which blood is seen, and the intervening days during which she is Clean must be same.

In such a case the habit of the woman will be counted according to the days during which blood is seen, not including the intervening days during which she remained Clean. It is not, however, necessary that the intervening days during which she remains Clean should be identical in each month.

For example, if in the 1st month blood is seen for 3 days from the 1st to the 3rd of the month and then she remains Clean for 3 days whereas in the 2nd month the blood comes for 3 days and then it stops coming for 3 days and is seen again for 3 days and the total number of days during which the blood is seen is six, then this woman will be classified as having a fixed habit of six days. If the number of days during which blood is seen varies in the second month, then she is one with fixed time but not fixed duration. 

- If a woman who has a fixed habit of time, irrespective of whether she has a fixed habit of duration or not, sees blood on time or a day or two earlier that blood will be Haydh even if it does not bear the signs of Haydh. Therefore, she will act according the rules applied to a Haaez. And if it transpires that it was not Haydh, for example, if she becomes clean before three days, then she should give Qadha for the acts of Ibadaat which she has left out. 

- If a woman having the habit of time and duration sees blood during all days of her fixed habit plus a few days before and after, and if the total number of days does not exceed 10, all the days are considered to be Haydh. And if it exceeds 10 days, then only the blood seen during the days of her habit is Haydh and the rest will be Istihadha, and she should give Qadha of the acts of worship which she did not perform during the days before and after her habit.

And if she sees blood on all the days of her habit as well as a few days earlier, and if the total number of the days does not exceed 10, all of it is Haydh. And if it exceeds ten days, then blood seen during the days of habit will be Haydh, even if it did not have the signs of Haydh, and the blood seen earlier will be classified as Istihadha even if it had the signs of Haydh.

She will offer Qadha for the prayers left out during those earlier days. And if she sees blood during her days of fixed habit plus a few days after her habit, and if the total does not exceed ten days, all of it are considered to be Haydh. But if it exceeds ten days, then the blood seen during habitual days will be Haydh, and the rest is Istihadha. 

- If a woman who has the fixed habit of time and duration, sees blood on some days of her habit and also a few days earlier and if the total number of days does not exceed 10 days, all of it is Haydh. And if the number of days exceeds 10 she will add the number of days within her habitual time to the earlier days and complete her fixed duration. Those will be the days of Haydh, and the rest will be Istihadha. 

And if she sees blood during some of her habitual days plus some days later, and if the total number of days does not exceed ten, then all of it will be considered as Haydh. 

And if the total exceeds ten days then she will add the number of her habitual time to the later days so as to complete her fixed period of duration. These will then be the days of Haydh, and the rest will be considered as Istihadha. 

- If a woman has a fixed habit of Haydh and if she sees blood for 3 days or more, and then it stops and is thereafter seen again, and the gap between the two discharges is less than 10 days, and if the total number of days in which blood was seen together with the intermediary period in which it stopped exceeds 10 days (e.g. when blood is seen for 5 days and then stops for 5 days and is again seen on the following 5 days) then it has various rules: 

If the blood, all or part thereof, seen in the initial days was during the days of her habit and the blood seen later in the second phase after her temporary state of being Clean did not come during the days of her habit, then she should treat her first blood to be Haydh and the second one as Istihadha. 

If the blood seen in the initial days is not during the days of her habit but the second blood, all or part therof was seen in the days of her habit, then she should treat the entire second blood to be Haydh and the first as Istihadha. 

If she saw the first and the second blood during the days of her habit, and if the first blood did not last for less than 3 days, then that period along with the intervening days when she was Clean will be period of Haydh, provided that the total period covered by them does not exceed 10 days.

And as per obligatory precaution, she will do all that a clean lady does and refrain from all that a Haaez is forbidden to do during the intervening period. And some of the blood which she continues to see after the days of her habit will be classified as Istihadha.

But the blood which she may see a day or two earlier than her habitual time can be Haydh, as it customarily occurs in some cases of women with fixed habit. But if she finds that by counting the earlier discharge as Haydh, the blood which she saw in the second phase during her habitual period will be counted out of the ten days limit then she will consider the earlier discharge as Istihadha.

For example, if her habit was to see blood on 3rd to 10th of every month, and during any one month the habit changed and she saw blood from 1st to 6th, and then remained Clean for two days. Thereafter, she saw blood again till 15th. The rule will be that the blood seen from 1st to 10th is Haydh, and that seen from 11th to 15th is Istihadha. 

If she sees the blood in both phases during her habitual days, but blood seen in the initial days is for less than three days, then it is plausible that she may add the days of earlier discharge to complete three days, and treat the period as Haydh. Then the second blood which also fell during habitual days will be counted as Haydh, provided that the total of the first and second phase, together with the intervening days of pause does not exceed ten days. In certain situations, she has to regard all the blood seen in the initial period as Haydh, but there are two conditions for that:

The discharge seen earlier than the habitual days must be customarily expected. 

By considering the whole initial period as Haydh, blood seen in the second phase of habitual days is not excluded from ten days' maximum. For example, if a woman has a habit of seeing blood from 4th to 10th of every month, and she saw it earlier, say, from 1st to 4th, and then there was a brief period when blood stopped, say, for two days. And again it continued up to 15th. The rule is that all blood seen in the first phase is Haydh, and in the second one, blood seen up to the tenth will be Haydh. The rest will be Istihadha. 

- If a woman with fixed habit of time and duration fails to see blood in her habit, and sees it earlier or later, it will be considered as Haydh if it comes for the equal number of days, and bears the signs. 

- If a woman who has the habit of time and duration sees blood in her habit for three or more days, but for less than her usual number of days and then her blood stops and thereafter is seen again for days equal to the number of days of her habit, she will treat the whole period, including the intervening days, as one Haydh, if it does not exceed ten days. 
But if the interval of days during which she is clean from blood is ten days or more, then each period of bleeding will be regarded as a separate period of Haydh. 

And if the interval of days is less than 10 days, but the total of first, second and intervening period exceeds ten days, then the first phase will be Haydh, and the second one Istihadha. 

- If a woman who has fixed habit of time and duration sees blood for more than 10 days, the blood which she sees during the days of her habit is Haydh, even though it may not have the signs of Haydh, and the blood which is seen after the days of her habit is Istihadha even though it may have the sign of Haydh.

For example, if the blood of a woman whose habit is from the 1st to the 7th of the month is seen from the 1st to the 12th of a particular month, the blood which is seen during the first 7 days will be Haydh and that which is seen during the remaining 5 days will be Istihadha . 

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