Yasir Qadhi – Which Prayers Need to Be Made Up During Menses (at beginning & end of cycle)? – Ask Shaykh YQ #157

			Sister Rupa from New Jersey emails and asks a question that should be pertinent to every single
lady. And it is a question about the menstrual cycle. And the issue is a very technical one. And
that is that at the beginning and end of the menstrual cycle, generally speaking, the Salah is
sometimes not prayed. And sometimes when the men's is finished, then there's time left to pray. And
sometimes the sisters delay and sometimes they do the hosel immediately. So she's asking about the
technical question about the beginning of the menses, if it comes, let's say after a lot of her, and
she hasn't prayed to her and her menses start, mushy makeups a lot. And then also when the menses
		

			finish, and it finishes at the time of load, and also, let's say, but for whatever reason, she's in
school or whatever, she delays it, and then it's after also, you know, what is to be done? So the
sliders that need to be made up at the beginning? And at the end of the menses, that is the
question.
		

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			now realize the topic of administration is of course, integral to taharah and to purity, and there's
a lot of rulings and honestly, there's a lot of confusion as well that a lot of our sisters have,
and maybe inshallah, you know, one day I'll give a more detailed class. It's something that actually
there should not be that much confusion about. And one of the areas of confusion is the the notion
of making up the solder watch, and what needs to be done. Now, obviously, we are not talking about
the prayers that are happening during the menstruation by unanimous consensus, the days that she is
menstruating those days, she does not pray, and she does not make up those prayers. That is by
		

			unanimous consensus, there is no difference of opinion, the issue comes about a prayer she might
have missed at the very beginning of the menses and or the prayers that technically she could have
prayed. But for whatever reason, she did not do so. Or even if she did also. So the question arises,
what if she did also, after salata, laaser? Must she also make a vote and answer or only answer. So
that's the area. So let us begin with the first issue, which is the question of when the menses
begin. And if she did not pray that particular prayer. Now, obviously, there are two simple
scenarios the first scenario so that the vote the timing came or set out to the Muslim or whatever
		

			it is, and she prayed the prayer. And then her menses start, no problem here. Obviously, she's done
her duty, she has done her son up and therefore obviously there is no question that there is no
solid that she needs to make up. But what if she did not pray? Because obviously, no, no, no sister
knows the minute that is going to start obviously. So she did not pray because she's allowed to
delay. It's loaded at 130 also, it is at four o'clock. And you know, she thought okay, I'm going to
pray in an hour. And lo and behold, her menses began. And she did not pray Lord, so obviously she is
you know, not not liable for having delayed though her but the question is issue liable to make up
		

			sold out the door? And the other question that comes that Well, how about vote and also together?
Because if she were traveling, or if circumstances were dire, then though heard and answered can be
combined and method of inertia can be combined? So do we take into account the directness, if you
like, of the the the the the issue of the possibility of combining the two prayers and mushy make up
the one prayer or maybe even the both prayers? So this is the question over here, and the scholars
of the mother have have differed over this issue. And some of the men have said that if there was
time to pray, even if it was time to pray, one Raka. And the point is, there has to be at least one
		

			record time. So if the hook began at, let's say, 1:30pm. And what you know, we happen to know 131
you know, she began the menses. So in reality, she did not have any time to even pray a full rocker.
So in that case, obviously, she is forgiven. But if she had enough time to pray a full urraca then
the majority of scholars say that she should make up that one prayer, that she did not pray that
that time was there, she's not sinful, but she is liable to make it up because they say they look at
it this way, that when the time of prayer came in, she was obliged to pray. The fact that she
delayed, the prayer is her choice.
		

			And she's not sinful because she didn't realize that the menses would start, but she still had the
obligation to pray for that hour or hour and a half or 35 minutes. So the fact that her menses began
simply means she needs to make up what was obligatory on her during that, you know, 35 minutes or
hour and a half before the menses began. And this is the position of the majority of the mme
however, the Maliki school and also share for some even taymiyah. They argue that there is no
football upon her at all. And that is because the obligation to pray last throughout the entire
section of the prayer, and the fact that that obligation was lifted by her menses in the middle
		

			means according to them that the entire obligation was negated. So the point is that is the
obligation incremental, let me put it that way that is it obligatory every single millisecond? Or is
it like the entire duration. So if it is a chunk of the entire duration, and it was lifted up in the
middle of that duration, then she is not liable. And one can also add over here that, you know,
plenty of women, obviously every woman menstruating the time of the Prophet sallallahu, I do send
them and he did not specific specifically command them to make up this particular prayer. And
therefore, it makes sense, like even Tamia argues that it makes sense that, you know, the fact that
		

			you deleted it was her choice, okay. And so, the No, none of the Sahaba were explicitly told by the
prophet says that, um, that, hey, monitor your menses, when they begin and make sure that you make
up any slider that you didn't pray on when the menses began, so Allah knows best. But, you know, the
the position of even Tamia here does make sense to me, nonetheless, the majority position is that
she does make up and in fact, many of the scholars say, and this is a well known position with the
humbly school that she makes up if it was at the her time, or if it was at Missouri of time, that
then she makes up the two prayers, LaHood and Elsa, or mcraven, Asia, because they argue, and again,
		

			this is a very, you know, that position that they're arguing is actually very consistent with
		

			the paradigm of understanding the obligation of solder. But you see, the flip side is this is the
scenario that a lot of women would have faced, and you would have thought that such a common
scenario should not have been left silent. Okay. So if you look at it from the perspective of, you
know, technical sudfeld, frankly, the majority position makes a lot of sense. And there's no
question that is the safer opinion. And that is that she should make up the prayer. And in fact, she
should make up two prayers in case they'll hurt. And also we're both together and her menses started
at lower, and Muslim in Asia, and her menses started after Muslim, obviously, once again, if her
		

			menstruation began before, obviously, the prayer, there's no question that it's not obligatory. So
if the menses began, the cycle began after acid, but before Muslim, then obviously Muslim in Asia is
forgiven. But the question is a sir, that's the question. And then if it was after voter, then the
question is, don't have an answer. Because, according to that paradigm, LaHood and also the Occupy
like, one status, in times of of hardship or need, and most of them in the Occupy one status,
because again, when we're traveling, or you know, in times of difficulty, you know, or in times of
rain, the process then would combine those two, otherwise, it was something that was done in
		

			exceptional scenarios, and this can be considered an exceptional scenario. So these are the two
opinions, the safer one is that she makes up and inshallah Tada, if you ask me, What I say is that
she does not need to make up any prayer of the beginning. Because she did not intention. I mean,
it's not like you're not delaying, you know, in order to you know, nobody knows when the menses will
begin. And so if it has begun, the the obligation has been lifted, because she was allowed to delay,
there's no sin on her to delay. And then if the menses began, then there is no problem and she does
not need to make it up okay. That is the beginning of the cycle. How about the end of the cycle and
		

			the end of the cycle of course, is known by the special discharge called the whitest discharge with
which you know, the average menstruating sister or lady has obviously there are exceptional
scenarios and that requires
		

			a longer class of film obviously, but generally speaking, most ladies that particular discharge
finishes the monthly cycle and that signifies that it is time of purity. Now, point here is that
many, many of our women may Allah guide us And forgive us for our sins. Many of our sisters do not
understand the importance of performing listen immediately. And unfortunately, all too often they
simply delay it for a few hours thinking that Oh, okay, it's okay, I'm in my menses. So, you know,
might as well just delay But you see, that's something that obviously no scholar has allowed because
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			It goes against the The point is your menses have finished. And when they have finished, you need to
do a hustle. And you need to pray. And so the question therefore is that if a sister finishes her
cycle, the the discharge comes out at the time of let us say, Now obviously, if it comes out the
time of a vote, obviously, let's say it is 130. And she finishes at two o'clock. Obviously, we all
understand that she needs to do a whistle and she needs to pray for her if she was lazy, or if
circumstances forced her for whatever reason that you know, she's not going to be you know, taking
the lasorda doesn't matter that is obligatory honor. And she is going to pray. Lord, we all
		

			understand that no problem now that however, the the technical controversy is the following, what if
her menses finished? After the same scenario? Must she make a boat vote? And also, or only answer,
again, by unanimous consensus in the time slot that her white is discharged takes place, and if
there was enough time for her to pray even one Raka Okay, so let me give you a simple example. That
suppose motive is on the dot 6pm, let's say and she sees that her, her wife is discharged comes out
at 5:55pm. So her menses has finished. Now, she does not technically have the time to do a loosen
fulsol. And then to pray that would be almost impossible. But five minutes is enough to pray Erica,
		

			therefore, if she is not able to do a full wholesale immediately and pray, vote, I'm sorry, acid is
still obligatory on her. So she will pray it. As soon as she does the lesson and she comes out and
she is now fully purified, she will first start with acid even if it is past most of time. Why?
Because the menses finished in enough time for her to pray one Raka of acid before the time of
Muslim. So I hope that that is clear, we do not look at the timeframe of after also, we look at the
timeframe of after the menses knowing full well that she cannot pray after the menses until she does
also. But the hosel timeframe is not looked at, we look at that timeframe. Now she is excused if she
		

			needs to take also. And because of that the time goes out that is a legitimate excuse. But the
obligation to pray is still binding on her. So if she could have prayed one Raka before the entrance
of the next timeframe. So suppose again, mother is at 6pm 555, she finishes. And so she she rushes
to the shower is going to take 345 10 minutes, you know to take the shower, and then she comes out
and she dresses and she prays she will begin with Asana even though it is motive time. But also it
is binding on her she was not sinful. But she must make it out. And then she will pray Muslim so
that much should be clear. And that is really no controversy amongst the scholars in that regard.
		

			She is sinful if she delays without a legitimate cause. If she is sinful, if she is lazy, and says
Oh, my, my my discharge comes out, let's say at 3pm. And she's just going to watch another serial
drama. I'm going to do this and she delays and she misses answer. And maybe Margaret and then before
going to sleep, she might do a rehearsal and the cell refriger the next day because hey, I missed
the whole day know she is liable for that delay. And she needs to make it of course she's sinful for
that delay in the first place if it's without, you know if it's within her control, and she is
liable to make up all of the solar water. Now, the other issue that comes though, is the more
		

			technical one, and that is that in case her white is discharged was released after or after issue.
These are the two time slots where we have to ask the answer this question. Otherwise we don't have
to answer this question. If the discharge was released after awesome or after Risha, then the
question is mushy also make up though her and or Margaret, I hope you understand the question,
right? Because obviously, you know, you understand that if the discharge were to come out at any
other time, then we don't have this question or scenario if it comes out after the sun rises. But
before they'll have no problem if it comes out right after fudger. And you still have time, no
		

			problem you only have major solar. And if it comes out after the hood or after Muslim you only have
that one salah and then the next one you'll pray the controversy will come that if it comes after or
after Isha? Does she have to make up the preceding prayer based on the same issue of the combination
of the prayers. And in this case, in this case, you have the Hanafi school and also many of the
independent scholars including my own teacher have an earth they mean they said that she only needs
to make up the one prayer that is in its timeframe. Okay, that she needs to make only the one prayer
that is in its timeframe. So if she finished after also she only makes about so she does not have to
		

			go back to Lahore and the same goes for airasia and they use the similar reasoning that I used in
the previous part about
		

			Once again, it's not her fault and the shitty I didn't come explicitly to mention that. The majority
of scholars however, say that she should make a both because again, they're looking at it as this is
a constrained time for her but the shitty I puts these two slots together. So the shitty time slot
for the harasser is basically one and motivation is basically one. So they have an argument from a
student perspective. And again, logically and rationally, I have to say that it makes a lot of
sense, yet textually the other one makes the sense it should also be added that there are a number
of companions
		

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			Now for a number of companions, the number of tab your own, they were asked the exact same question
and they said she should make up an answer, or she should make a Muslim in Asia. So based upon that
the majority of Muslims do go with that. And there's no question to your brothers and sisters that
it is the safer opinion and it is a position that will get you out of any controversy and I you
know, recommend that just to be on the safe side. Nonetheless, Allah azza wa jal knows best but if a
sister only makes up the the Salah that is in her time slot, and she does not make up the salad that
she missed when her menses began in Sha lozada. In my opinion, she is not sinful and a lots of
		

			Hannah Watada knows best