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The library behind Nisaa’s in-app guidance, free to read. Each answer sets out the position of the schools and the evidence it rests on, rather than handing you a single sentence and asking you to trust it.
Hayd and purity
What is considered Hayd (menstruation)?
How hayd is recognised, and the minimum and maximum duration each school allows.
Read the answerWhen can I consider my menstruation (Hayd) to be over?
The two signs of tuhr, and which one to rely on when they disagree.
Read the answerAre the yellowish and brownish discharges (Sufrah and Kudrah) part of Hayd?
Whether sufrah and kudrah count as hayd, and how the timing changes the answer.
Read the answerIs irregular bleeding (Istihadah) considered like Hayd?
Why istihadah does not stop worship, and the three cases used to identify it.
Read the answerPrayer and worship
What is not allowed during Hayd?
What is suspended during hayd, and what is simply made up later.
Read the answerWhat acts of worship can I do to stay close to Allah during my menstruations?
Salah is lifted, not your connection. What remains open to you during hayd.
Read the answerIs it allowed to recite the Quran during Hayd (without touching the Mushaf)?
The positions on recitation without touching the mushaf, and what all agree on.
Read the answerIs it allowed to enter and stay in mosques during Hayd?
A long-standing disagreement, and the evidence used on both sides.
Read the answerWhich Salah should I perform the day my period ends?
If purity arrives inside Asr or Isha, is the earlier prayer owed as well?
Read the answerIf my period starts after a prayer's time begins but before I have a chance to perform it, should I make it up?
The prayer time entered, then your period started. Is that prayer owed?
Read the answerCan I touch the Mushaf (Qur'an) during my period?
The barrier exception, the Maliki concession for teachers, and what changes on a phone screen.
Read the answerDoes my period starting during Hajj mean I have to abandon it?
What continues as normal, what waits for Tawaf al-Ifadah, and what happens if she cannot delay her flight home.
Read the answerCan a menstruating woman perform tawaf during Hajj or Umrah?
The one rite hayd actually stops during Hajj or Umrah, and what changes when travel cannot wait.
Read the answerDoes my period starting during Umrah mean I have to leave it unfinished?
What waits for purity, and what happens to an interrupted Umrah when a flight home cannot be delayed.
Read the answerCan I Recite Qur'an While I Am in a State of Janabah?
The hadith of 'Ali on reciting Qur'an in Janabah, and why hayd's leniency does not carry over.
Read the answerRamadan and fasting
Should I continue fasting in Ramadan if my period comes during the day before Maghreb?
Bleeding starts before Maghrib. The fast breaks, and the day is made up.
Read the answerShould I fast if my menses end during the day?
Purity arrives after Fajr. Can that day still count as a fast?
Read the answerDo I need to make up the fasts that I missed because of my menses?
The fasts are owed, the prayers are not. The hadith behind the distinction.
Read the answerWhat if the next Ramadan comes and did not fast back the days from the previous ramadan?
What is owed when qada is delayed past the next Ramadan, and when fidya applies.
Read the answerWhen should I make up the missed fasts?
Consecutive or spread out, and the deadline the majority set.
Read the answerMarriage and ghusl
What intimacies with the husband are allowed and what is forbidden during period?
What is permitted and what is forbidden between spouses during hayd.
Read the answerWhen Hayd is over, can women have sexual intercourse with their husband before making Ghusl?
Bleeding has stopped but ghusl has not been made. What the verse requires.
Read the answerWhat is Janabah (impurity following sexual activity) and when should I make Ghusl?
What causes janabah, when ghusl becomes obligatory, and how it is performed.
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