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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 Sala 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

goshuil immediately. So she's asking about the technical question about the

beginning of the menses if it comes let's say after solat of Dohur and she hasn't

prayed and her menses start.

She make up solat of Dohur and then also when the menses finish and it finishes at the time of Doha and Asher let's say but for whatever reason

she's in school or whatever she delays it and then it's after Asher you know what is to be done so the Salas that need to be made up at the beginning and at the end of the

Mansifs. That is the question. A rusal nah al-a al-sal-a-mim kabdika I'll a rijalan no

he ila-i-e him

fasalu aAulikirin, kun, tumtum la talamun.

Now realize the topic of menstruation is of course integral to Tahara 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

in shawlle 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 notion of making up the Sarawat 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

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