When his wife was menstruating, the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) showed compassion by engaging in affectionate physical closeness, like resting his head in her lap and fondling her (with an wrap covering the lower body), and by continuing normal household interaction, such as her washing his head while he was in spiritual retreat (i'tikaf), all while avoiding sexual intercourse as Islam prohibits it during this time. He emphasized companionship, love, and learning, even during menstruation, treating it as a natural state rather than a cause for complete separation.
The Prophet ﷺ said, “Do everything with her except for sexual intercourse.” In another incident, the Companions (Allah be pleased with them) asked the Prophet ﷺ about what was permissible to do with a menstruating woman. He ﷺ responded, “For you is what is above the izar (lower garment).”
There is misconception amongst many Muslims that women become impure and should be 'locked up' out of the way. This is a mere myth and has no space in Islam. A woman during menstruation is 'ritually impure' meaning she cannot pray, hold the Quraan or fast.
Fatimah remained in a state of perpetual ritual purity because she never menstruated or performed sexual intercourse in order to become pregnant with her children, and she gave birth from the side of her body and never bled during childbirth.
If there is no impurity (najas) on her private part, kissing and foreplay stuff will not be something haram. However, if there is discharge, and chances for the husband to take the discharge in his mouth, then this would be haram.
- In another version of the hadith, hesaid, "Menstrual blood is always thick and reddish and non-menstrual blood is always thin and yellowish." - "If it is menstrual blood, it is recognized from its dark color and you must refrain from praying.
Scholars have agreed that during a wife's menstrual period, a husband may engage in any form of sexual intimacy with his wife and touch any part of her body though he is to avoid the area between her legs and navel while many others do not prohibit this area but stipulate abstention from vaginal penetration.
Among the dhikr and tasbeeh that can be recited during menstruation, and which have significant psychological effects on every woman, are the following: Astaghfirullah: Seeking forgiveness is one of the greatest forms of dhikr a woman can recite. It erases sins and atones for wrongdoings.
The majority of Muslim scholars and jurists maintain the impermissibility for a woman in her menstrual period or in postpartum to recite the Qur`an or to touch the Mushaf (copy of the Qur`an). It is the recitation itself that is prohibited regardless of the means.
Your period has nothing to do with it. In fact for menstruating women it's encouraged to renew your faith with words like the shahadah or other words of remembrance. If anything, just don't touch the Quran with your bare hands and if you have to just pick it up with a clean cloth.
Yes, there is no restriction in Islam against getting married during menstruation. You can sign the marital contract whether you are on your period or not.
However, it is not to wash a used sanitary pad before disposal. Some women wash pads out of modesty or to avoid anyone seeing the blood, animals digging through trash, superstitious fears like black magic. These actions are personal preference and it is not required in Islam.
Yes it is not only permissible to publicly discuss menstruation but even necessary in some situations to inform those who are concerned.
Answer. It is permissible for women in a state of menstruation or postnatal bleeding and anyone in a state of major ritual impurity (janabah) to enter the mosque either in passing, to fulfill a need, or to attend educational classes and the like.
Islam does not consider a menstruating woman to possess any kind of “contagious uncleanness.” She is neither “untouchable” nor “cursed.” She practises her normal life with only one restriction: a married couple is not allowed to have sexual intercourse during the period of menstruation.
Women can speak to Allah any time, whether on their cycles are not. They cannot pray or perform night prayer(Isha, Tarawih) but can, 1. LISTEN to Qur'an, recite to onesself, study Islam, read Hadith.
But it is permissible for him to do that which will satisfy his desire without having intercourse, such as kissing, touching and intimacy that is less than intercourse, but it is better not to be intimate with that which is between the navel and the knee except through a barrier, because 'Aishah (may Allah be pleased ...
The ending of menstruation may be known from one of two signs: either the emission of a white discharge which comes at the end of the period or by total cessation of bleeding.
Even if he sucks on her nipples, this comes under the heading of the intimacy that is permissible, and it cannot be said that the milk has any effect on him , because if an adult breastfeeds, it does not have any effect of making him a mahram.
For more benefit, please refer to Fataawa 81639, 85112 and 86805. that it is permissible for a woman in menses to recite the Quran but she should not touch it without an obstacle (i.e. a glove and the like). As regards plucking the hair of the armpit, and shaving the pubic hair, then this has nothing to do with menses.
ORAL SEX WITH YOUR WIFE IN ISLAM IS NOT HARAM. You have rights to each other. It is neither a sin, nor a punishable offense.
Say, "It is harm, so keep away from wives during menstruation. And do not approach them until they are pure. And when they have purified themselves, then come to them from where Allāh has ordained for you. Indeed, Allāh loves those who are constantly repentant and loves those who purify themselves.
Thirdly: If you see bleeding two weeks after the end of your period, as you mention, and it does not look like menstrual blood, then this is irregular bleeding (istihaadah) and not menses, because it does not match the description of menstrual blood and it has not come at the time of your usual period.
“The hadith “Do everything except intercourse” clearly indicates that what is forbidden is only intercourse in the site of menstruation, which is intercourse in the vagina, but everything else is permissible.