Women using medication to prevent menstruation during Ramadhan

 

Q: Is it permissible for a woman to take a medicine to prevent menstruation during Ramadhan?

A: It is permissible for women to use medication to prevent menstruation during Ramadhan in the case that trustworthy, expert doctors and the like ascertain that doing so neither harms woman’s health nor has a bad effect on pregnancy organs. However, it is better that women Do NOT use such medications. Allaah has given women a Rukhsah (concession) not to observe Sawm (Fast) when they have their menstrual period in Ramadhan, and has prescribed for them to make up for the days of Sawm they have missed. He (Exalted be He) has chosen this for them as the way to discharge this religious obligation.

May Allaah grant us success. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions.

The Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research & Ifta’

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Some common mistaks in Ramadhan

Lets Strive Not to Repeat the Same
By Asma bint Shameem

1 : Taking Ramadhan as a ritual

2 : Too much stress on food & drink

3 : Spending all day cooking

4 : Eating too much

5 : Sleeping all day

6 : Wasting time

7 : Fasting but not giving up evil

8 : Smoking

9 : Skipping Suhoor

10 : Stopping Suhoor at Imsaak

11 : Not fasting if they missed Suhoor

12 : Saying the intention to fast out loud or saying a specific dua to  

       start fasting

13 : Delaying breaking fast

14 : Eating continuously until the time for Maghrib is up

15 : Missing the golden chance of having your Dua accepted

16 : Fasting but not praying

17 : Fasting & not wearing Hijaab

18 : Not fasting because of exams or work

19 : Mixing fasting & dieting

20: Praying ONLY on the night of the 27^th

21 : Wasting the last part of Ramadhan preparing for Eid

22 : Iftaar Parties

Belief In The Last Day & What It Entails

 

Al-Allaamah Sheikh Rabee' (may Allaah preserve him) stated:

"Belief in the Last Day & that which the last day entails from the resurrection, the compensation, the bridge, the Paradise & Hell-fire (is a must). Also (we must believe in that) which Allaah has prepared in the gardens of bliss from gardens & rivers just as Allaah has mentioned that in many verses. Likewise the belief in the Hell-fire (& the refuge is sought with Allaah) & that which is in it of severe punishment. The Hell-fire is that which Allaah has prepared for the disbelievers & the people of innovation share with them in that. They have their portion of the Hell-fire according to the degree of that which they have deviated from the true religion of Allaah & according to the degree of what they have opposed from the true religion of Allaah."

This has come in the severe threat which the Messenger of Allaah (صلى الله عليه وسلم) mentioned:

"This nation will split into seventy three paths (i.e. meaning paths of desires). All of them in the fire except for one."

The companions said: "Who are they Oh Messenger of Allaah?"

Steps to Knowledge

Steps to Knowledge.. 

 

Sufyân b. ‘Uyainah (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: 

The first step in knowledge is to listen, then to be quiet & attentive, then to preserve it, then to put it into practice & then to spread it.

Abû Nu’aym, Hilyah Al-Awliyâ` Vol.3 p283.  

Which of the favours of Thy Lord do you deny? (3)

by Imâm Ibnul Qayyim al-Jawziyyah

(Reminder 3)

 A man of knowledge said:

“The blessing of Allâh to us in keeping the luxuries of this world away from us is greater than the blessing of that which he has given us, because Allaah did not like His Prophet to have the luxuries of this world. So I prefer to live in the manner which Allâh preferred for His Prophet than to live a life which He disliked for him.”

  Taken from “Uddat as-Sâbireen wa Dhâkirat ash-Shâkireen”

O Seeker of Good, Where are you?

Some thought-provoking & heartfelt words on Ramadhan

 by Ibn al-Jawzi (rahimahullaah) 

 

‘… Where are those who fast & where are those who pray by night? Where are those who obey their Lord & where are those who work righteousness? Where are those who are foremost & where are the humble ones? Where are those who remember (their Lord) & where are those devoted to Him? Where are the truthful & where are the patient? Where are the charity-givers? Where are those who enjoin good, who save the troubled ones & who forbid the wrong? Where are those who heed contemplation & who listen to good advice & life-lessons? By Allaah, they have indeed gone with the Salihin (righteous), returned with the Mu’minin (believers), settled with the Anbiya’ (Prophets) & taken residence with the Siddiqin (truthful ones). But us, we remain behind with the ignorant, have settled with the wrong-doers & have taken the heedless as our guides…

What B-R-E-A-K-S your FAST?

Sheikh Ibn Fawzaan (Hafidhahullaah)

It is obligatory for the Muslim to know of all that invalidates the fast so as to be aware of them. They include:

1) Sexual intercourse: Whenever the fasting person has sexual intercourse, his fast is invalidated. Subsequently, he is required to make up the fast for that day in which he had sexual intercourse in addition to paying a penalty (kaffaarah) which is to free a slave. If he is unable to find a slave or funds that are equal to that, then he is required to fast consecutively for two months. If he is unable to fast for two months, due to an Islaamically acceptable reason, he is to feed 60 poor people half a saa' each from the food common in that land.

2) Excretion of semen as a result of kissing, touching with desire, masturbation or persistently looking at that which arouses the desire. In this case, the fast is invalidated & he is required to make up for that day without paying a penalty (kaffaarah), since paying a penalty is specific to having had sexual intercourse.

3) Intentionally eating & drinking, due to that which Allaah (سُبحانه وتعالى) says:

“ وَكُلُواْ وَاشْرَبُواْ حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْفَجْرِ ثُمَّ أَتِمُّواْ الصِّيَامَ إِلَى الَّليْلِ”

{...and eat & drink until the white thread (light) of dawn appears to you distinct from the black thread (darkness of night), then complete your Sawm (fast) till the nightfall},

(Al-Baqarah 2:187)

Breaking Fast: To eat Dinner first or Pray Maghrib?

Sheikh ‘Abdul ‘Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy upon him)

Question: Is it from the sunnah when breaking the fast to eat some dates & drink water then pray maghrib  & afterwards eat & drink whatever he wishes?

 Answer: “Yes, (it is from the sunnah), because this is what empowers (one with) a type of advantage. He rushes to break the fast with what Allaah has made easy from dates & water, then goes to pray maghrib along with the congregation so that he does not miss it, then returns & eats whatever he wishes to eat & like this.

The Best Act of Worship: Humility

Translated by Abu Aaliyah Abdullah ibn Dwight Battle

Doha, Qatar.

 

عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ: " يَغْفُلُونَ عَنْ أَفْضَلِ الْعِبَادَةِ: التَّوَاضُعِ "

Aisha (Radi Allaahu anhaa) said: 

" People are paying no attention to the BEST act of worship: Humility."

Collected by Ibn Abee Shaybah (13/360) Ibn Hajr graded this Athar as being Saheeh.

Benefits for this subject:

At-Tabari (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: "Allaah tests His believing servants with humility to see how they obey Him and follow His commands." [ Saheeh Bukhari Ibn Battal ]

Shaykh Abdur Rahman As-Sa'dee (May Allaah rest him in Jannah) said, "Humility and Humbleness are among the foundations of the religion and its core whereas, pride contradicts Islaam.”

The origin of humility is found in the verse: (سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا) (We hear and obey) [Al-Baqarah 285]. 

20 Special Characteristics of Ramadhan

                  Translated by Abu Aaliyah Abdullah ibn Dwight Battle

Doha, Qatar.

1. Its name: Ramadhan, The Month of Ramadhan, The Month of Patience, The Month of Siyaam.
2. Look for the Hilaal: Moon
3. The doors of Paradise are opened and the gates of Hell are locked.
4. The Shayateen are locked up.
5. During every night Allaah frees someone from Hell.
6. During Ramadhan a servant’s provisions are increased.