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Add ‘With Afiyah’ to Your Duas

In his amazing commentary on Riyāḍuṣ Ṣāliḥīn, ʿAllāmah Ibn Kamāl Pāshā رحمه الله wrote the following under the title ‘Istikhārah and Mushāwarah’: Abū Hurayrah رضي…

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Posted in Etiquettes (Sunan Wa Aadaab) Family Matters

Corporal Punishment and its Place in Islam

بِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ Allah mentions in the Quran: وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ “And We have not sent you(Oh Muhammad), except as a source…

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Posted in Articles

Practical Ways of Protecting Ourselves, Loved ones and Property

بِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ Indeed Allah ta’ala has blessed us with many great favors and bounties, through His sheer grace; one of which is Aafiyah….

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Posted in البلاغة اللغة العربية

Khabr: Ṣādiq or Kādhib

cIlm al-Macānī is the cilm (knowledge) through which the forms of Arabic expressions suitable to the dictates of the current situation are recognized.  It is…

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Posted in Biographies History Motivators

Aḥnāf ibn Qays Looks for Himself in the Muṣḥaf

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم In the book Ayn al-Khāshicūn fi al-Ṣalāh, the author, Shaykh Abū Ṭalḥah Muḥammad Yūnus ibn cAbd al-Sattār writes: The objective of…

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Posted in Articles Financial Transactions

Deficiency in One Branch of Islam Renders the Others Soulless? Mufti Ahmed Khanpuri

The following is an endorsement of the book “Masāʾil of Financial Transactions and Their Sharʿī Solutions” written by the Remnant of our Elders, the Sulṭānul…

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Posted in Fiqh Haidh & Istihadha Talaq (Divorce) Women Issues

The Reason For Six Or Nine Months Wait Before Counting the ʿIddah

The reason the fuqahā’ mention to wait for a period of 6 months before one starts to count the ʿiddah by lunar months, is to ensure that the woman in not pregnant. They say that by that semester it would have been clearly visible if she was pregnant. So, 6 months for istibrā’ and 3 months for ʿiddah.

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Posted in Fiqh Talaq (Divorce) Women Issues

How Are The 3 Lunar Months Counted For ʿIddah?

If the woman was divorced on the 1st of the month, then all agree that she will count her 3 months by the sighting of the crescent (hilāl). Therefore, her ʿiddah can be 90, 89, or 88 days.

If she was divorced on any other day, then there is a difference of opinion regarding how to calculate the 3 lunar months

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Posted in Fiqh Haidh & Istihadha Talaq (Divorce) Women Issues

Menopause at 30 Years of Age: An Exception

In the chapter on ʿiddah, ʿAllāmah Haṣkafī and ʿAllāmah Shāmī mentioned an exception to the rule of 55 years being the age of menopause. 
If a woman became bāligh by age, i.e., by passing 15 lunar years of her life, and never saw a single ḥayḍ her entire life and she reaches the age of thirty (30), the judgment of being a woman in menopause would be issued for her.

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Posted in Fiqh Haidh & Istihadha Menstruation Talaq (Divorce) Women Issues

Menopause Rulings

Ḥayḍ terminates when a woman reaches the age of menopause.
Age of “losing hope” for Ḥayḍ and Nifās (i.e., Menopausal Age)

Lunar: 55 years. [Preferred Opinion]
Solar: 53 years 4 months.
Rule 1: When a woman reaches the age of 55 and her bleeding stops, the judgement of her being in menopause is passed.
Rule 2: The ʿiddah (for a divorce) of a woman who reaches the age of 55 and is no longer seeing blood is counted as 3 lunar months.

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