Types of Women related to the Haydh (Menstruation)

* Women 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 pure 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.

* Mudhtariba disordered duration: 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 beginner: A woman who sees blood for the first time.

* Nasiya forgetful: A woman who has forgotten her habit.

Some Further Details are given blow about the menstruated woman

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

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

Second, a woman who sees blood in each of the two consecutive months at a particular time and fater 3 or more days she may be purified 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 purified 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 remained purified. It is not, however, necessary that the intervening day during which she remains purified 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 purified 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 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.

486. 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 menstruated even if it does not bear the signs of the menstruation. Therefore, she will act according to the rules applied to a menstruated woman. And if it transpires that it was not menstruation, for example, if she becomes purified before three days, then she should give Quadha for the acts of the services, which she has left out.

487. 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 of it is menstruation. And if it exceed 10 days, then only the blood seen during the days of habit is mensturateion and the rest will be menstrual irregular discharges, and she should give Quadha 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 its is menstruation. And if it exceeds ten days, then blood is seen during the days of habit will be of a menstruation, even if it did not have the signs of menstruation, and the blood seen earlier will be classified as a menstrual irregular discharges even if it ha the sings of menstruation. She will offer Quadha 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 is menstruation. But if it exceeds ten days, the the blood is seen during the habitual days will be of menstruation, and the rest is of a menstrual irregular discharges.

488. If a woman, who has a fixed habit of time and duration, sess blood on some days of her habit and also a few days earlier and if the total number of days does not exceed 10 day, all of it is menstruation. 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 the days of menstruation, and the rest will be of a menstual irregular discharges.

And if she sees blood during some of her habitual days plus some days later, anf if the total number of days does not exceed ten, the all of it will be menstration. 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 menstruation, and the rest will be classified as menstrual irregular discharges.

489. If a woman has a fixed habit of menstruation and if she sees blood for 3 days or more, and then it stops and is therafter 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 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 agains seen on the following 5 days) then it has various rule:

* If the blood, all or part therof, seen in the initial days was during the day of her habit and the blood seen later in the the second phase after her temporary state of being purified did not come during the days of her habit, then she should treat her first blood to be menstruation and the second one as menstrual irrgular discharges.

* 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 menstruation and the first as menstual irregular discharges.

If she saw the first and the soend blood during the days of her habit, and if the first blood did not last for less thean 3 days, then that period along with the interveninig days when she was purified will be period of menstruation, provided that the total the total period covered by them does not exceed 10 days. And as per obligatory precaution, she will do all that a pure lady does and refrain from all that a menstruated woman 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 menstrual irregular discharges. But the blood which she may see a day or two earlier than her habitual time can be menstruation, as it customarily occurs in some cases of women with fixed habit. But if she finds that by counting the earlier discharge as menstruation, the blood which she saw in teh second phase during her habitual period will be counted out of the ten days limit then she will consider the earlier discharge as menstrual irregular discharges. For example, if her habit was to see blood on 3rd and to 10th of every month, and during anyone month the habit changed and she saw blood from 1st to 6th, and then remained purified for two days. Thereafter, she saw blood again till 15th. the rule will be that the blood seen from the 1st to the 10th is menstruation, and that is seen from the 11th to the 15th is menstrual irregular discharges.

* 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 menstruation. Then the second blood, which also fell during habitual days will be considered as menstuation, provided that the total of the first and second phase, together with the intervening days of pauses does not exceed ten days. In certain situations, she has to regard all teh blood seen in the inital period as menstruation, but there are two conditions for that:

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

(ii) By considering the whole initial period as menstruation, 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 Ist to 4th, and the 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 menstruation, and in the second one, blood see up to the tenth will be menstruation. The rest will be menstrual irregular discharges.

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

491. If a woman who has 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 menstuation, if it does not exceed ten days. But if the number of intervening days during which she is pure from blood is ten days or more, then each period of bleeding will be regarded as a separated period menstruation. And if the interevening gap is less than 10 days, but the total of first, second and interverning period exceeds ten days, and then the first phase will be menstruation, and the second one menstrual irregular discharge.

492. 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 menstruation, even though it may not have the signs of menstrution, and the blood which is seen after the days of her habit is menstrual irregular discharges even though it may have the sign of menstruation. 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 12th of a particular month, the blood which is seen during the remaining 5 days will be menstrual irregular discharges.