Haydh Part 4

- Mubtadea is a woman who sees blood for the first time. If she sees it for more than ten days and all the blood has common signs then she should refer to the prevailing habit among her relatives and consider her corresponding duration as Haydh.........

Haydh Part 4

Mubtadea

- Mubtadea is a woman who sees blood for the first time. If she sees it for more than ten days and all the blood has common signs then she should refer to the prevailing habit among her relatives and consider her corresponding duration as Haydh and the rest as Istihadha. And if even that seems impossible, then she will be free to fix a certain duration as explained previously. 

- If a Mubtadea sees blood for more than ten days, some bearing the signs of Haydh and other bearing that of Istihadha, and if the blood with the signs of Haydh is seen for not less than three and not more than ten days, then all that blood is Haydh. But if she sees blood again before the expiry of ten days and even that blood resembles Haydh, for example, if dark blood is seen for five days and yellowish blood is seen for nine days, and dark blood is seen again for five days, then she should treat the first blood as Haydh and the rest as Istihadha, as explained in the case of Mudhtaribah. 

- If a Mubtadea sees blood for more than 10 days, some of which bearing signs of Haydh and other having signs of Istihadha, and if the blood with the signs of Haydh is seen for less than 3 days, she will treat it as Haydh, and for determining the duration of it she will follow as stated in rule of the beginning of mubtadea.

Nasiya

- Nasiya is a woman who has forgotten her habit of time and duration, and such women are of various types. One of them is a woman who had a fixed habit of duration, and has now forgotten it. If she sees blood for three or more days, not exceeding ten, she will treat all of it as Haydh. 
But if she sees blood for more than ten days, then she is classified as Mudhtaribah, and she will follow the first and the second rule in mubtadea, with one difference. While determining her duration, she must know that the duration she is fixing is not less than her usual habit, nor can she fix a longer duration than her usual habit.

Similar is the case of a woman who had a fixed duration, but it slightly varied each month, for example, she saw blood for six days, and at times for seven days in a month. Such a woman, if she is unable to decide on the basis of signs, or the habit of her relatives etc. then she should fix her duration within the limits of six and seven days.

Various rules related to Haydh

- If a Mubtadea, a Mudhtaribah, a Nasiya and a woman with the fixed habit of duration, see blood with the signs of Haydh, or are certain that the discharge would last for three days, they must abandon the obligatory prayers. But if they later understand that it was not Haydh, they have to give the Qadha of the prayers they did not perform. 

- If a woman has a fixed habit of Haydh, either of time or of duration or of both, and if she sees blood for two consecutive months contrary to her usual habit in which she finds that the time, the duration or both coincide then she has formed a new habit. For example, if previously she saw blood from 1st to 7th of a month but during these two months she saw it from the 10th to 17th, then the period from 10th to 17th of the month will be her new habit. 

- "One month" means the expiry of 30 days from the date of commencement of Haydh and not the period from the first to the last date of a month. 

- If a woman usually sees blood once in a month, but in a particular month she sees it twice with signs of Haydh, and if the number of intervening days during which she remained Clean is not less than 10 she should treat both as periods of Haydh. 

- If a woman sees blood with signs of Haydh for 3 or more days and thereafter for 10 or more she sees blood with the signs of Istihadha and again she sees blood with signs of Haydh for 3 days, she should treat the first and last bleeding as Haydh. 

- If a woman becomes clean before the expiry of 10 days and feels that there is no blood in her interior part she should do Ghusl for the acts of worship although she may have a feeling that blood might appear once again before the completion of 10 days. And if she is absolutely sure that she will see blood before the lapse of 10 days, even then, as a matter of precaution, she should do Ghusl and perform her Ibadaat, but she will refrain from doing those acts which are forbidden to a Haaez. 

- If a woman becomes clean before 10 days but feels that there might be blood in her interior part, she should insert cotton and wait for some time to find out. If she finds out that she has become Clean she should take bath and perform her acts of worship.

And if she finds out that she has not become clean totally, and she does not have a fixed habit of Haydh or if her habit is 10 days, or if she has a fixed duration which is not yet completed, then she will wait. If she becomes clean before ten days, she will do Ghusl. If she becomes clean on completion of 10 days, or if her bleeding exceeds ten days, then she will do Ghusl at the end of tenth day.

And if her habit is for less than 10 days, and she is sure that the blood will cease before ten days are over, or by the end of the tenth day, she must not do Ghusl till then. And if she has a feeling that her bleeding might exceed ten days, it is a recommended precaution that she avoids acts of worship for a day, or up to the tenth day. But this rule applies to those women who have had continuous bleeding before the days of her habit. Otherwise, it is not permissible to neglect Ibadaat after the days of habit are over. 

- If a woman treats the blood she saw during certain days as Haydh and did not perform her acts of worship and comes to know later that it was not Haydh, she should give Qadha of the lapsed prayers, and fasts, which she left out. And if she performs acts of worship under the impression that the blood is not Haydh but realizes later that it was Haydh, then the fasts kept in those days will be void and therefore she should give Qadha of those fasts. 

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