Istihada

Question

(1) A woman has long been suffering from the illness of istihada (irregular bleeding): the blood flows continually. In the month there is sometimes a break of two or three days, and sometimes not even that; and she does not remember her former habit (cycle) either. (2) Which dates of the month should she count as purity (tuhr), and which dates should she regard as hayd? (3) On which days should she keep to prayer, fasting and recitation [of the Qur'an], and on which days not? (4)

Answer

Such a woman should resort to taharri (determining by the prevailing conviction of her heart); that is, if she does not remember her former habit and cannot recognise [hayd] by colour [of the blood] either, she should reflect with great effort of heart, think it over well and pray to Allah; then the days about which her heart testifies that these are days of hayd, she should…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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