{"id":1800,"date":"2019-07-10T11:47:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T09:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2019-07-10T11:47:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T09:47:38","slug":"is-the-bleeding-of-a-menopausal-woman-counted-as-menstruation-haidh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1800","title":{"rendered":"Is the bleeding of a menopausal woman counted as menstruation (Haidh)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Is the bleeding of a menopausal woman counted as menstruation (Haidh)?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. I have a question to ask regarding the masla on menopause. If a woman\u2019s menstrual cycle lasted 3 days during her normal days of haidh and she still continues to bleed for 3 days even for 1 month after attaining her age of 55 lunar years, will this be construed as haidh or istihaaza?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>The minimum period of a valid menstruation\/haidh is three days. The maximum is ten days. Hence, if a woman bleeds for three days, her menstruation\/haidh will be three days.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of a menopausal woman bleeding, if she bleeds one Month etc. after the menopausal age of fifty five lunar years (approximately\u00a0<strong>53 years and 4 months) <\/strong>according to the solar calendar), the bleeding would be considered to be menstruation\/haidh on condition that the blood color is the same as the blood color of menstruation\/haidh experienced prior to the menopausal age of menstruation.<\/p>\n<p>For e.g. the blood color prior to the menopausal age of menstruation\/haidh was red and it is also red after the menopausal age of menstruation\/haidh. In such a case, it would be considered menstruation\/haidh. <strong>(Shaami 1\/304)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the bleeding of a menopausal woman counted as menstruation (Haidh)? Q. I have a question to ask regarding the masla on menopause. If a woman\u2019s<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws-of-women","category-taharah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}