ok, i know this is debatelable… and im sure people are gonna say “No” but i thought id give it a shot..
about 2-3 years back, I went to an Islamic lecture for females and one of the aunties asked the lecturer whether it was permissable for a female to read Quran whilst she was menstruating..
the lecturer said that it was fine.. obviously you can not touch the Quran with ur hands, but she advised that you could get someone to turn the pages for you.. or use a tissue/cloth to turn the pages urself..
i guess i find this really useful during Ramzan when u are trying to complete the Quran in 29/30 days… but what is everyones take on this?
To give another view, the following detailed article concludes that, “It seems, Allah knows best, that there is no evidence prohibiting the menstruating woman or the sexually defiled person from touching the Quran.”
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*Originally posted by funguy: *
I thought the Quran is supposed to 'touch your heart'...everything else is of no consequence.
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ok go to bathroom and do what ever we do there and then do not wash your hands then read the quran, cuz as long as it touches your heart nothing matters.
there are important matters in the religion such as tawheed risalah and akhirah and salah and so on, and there are minor matters in the religion, but none of them is trivial, they all have reasons and we better follow them to our fullest extent.
wat nonsense about using a cloth or doing a lot of acrobatic stunts to avoid contact! I mean, if one is unpure during her period, then quite clearly her touching the cloth will make it unpure as well -cuz that's the basic tenet on which one doesn't want to touch the Qur'an in the first place-, so wat use is it to touch the Qur'an via the unpure cloth?
and if this isn't enuf, then let's look at it from a microscopic view: a piece of cloth consists of pores, so if u touch the Qur'an via a cloth, then clearly a few molucules/cells from ur hand will transverse these pores and end up on the Qur'an. So, from this point of view only rubber gloves will suffice. But since the rest is uncovered, there might be dead cells/hair falling from anywhere and end up on the Qur'an, how is one going to avoid that? an astronaut's suit?
^ I didn't see NeSCio presenting any evidence that a menstruating woman is forbidden from touching the Qur'an or that this is his view, apart from some bizarre references to microscopes and dead cells (which made me chuckle in fact)!!
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*Originally posted by rehman1: *
I think only Dhikr and Duas of Protection can be read
in such states. That too which are in memory.
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This seems excessive. A woman, just like a man, needs constantly to seek guidance from the Qur'an and to say she can't do so for days on end… Like it said in the earlier link,
"Women do not have the ability to remove the state of impurity from themselves like the sexually defiled person may do so by simply making ghusl. Furthermore, the length of time of the menstruation and postpartum bleeding may be quite long. This would require the women to spend a great deal of time without reciting anything from the Quran. This would lead her to forget what she has memorized of the Quran. Furthermore, the Quran is a guidance for her life and she needs to turn to it and ponder over it even during such times."
…Also in regards to the prohibition of reciting a portion of the Qur’an for them, there are the following hadiths.
'Abdullah ibn 'Umar relates that Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam said, "A menstruating women or a seminally defiled person should not recite any part of the Qur’an. (Sunan al-Tirmidhi, Sunan al-Bayhaqi)
There are also other hadiths transmitted by Imam Daraqutni, Tirmidhi, Nasa’i, Ibn Maja, Abu Dawud, Ibn Hibban, Hakim and others in this regard (See Nasb al-Raya].
Another hadith found in the Muwatta of Imam Malik states that “Only a person in the state of purity should touch the Qur’an.” This hadith has been transmitted by many other hadith scholars as well.
'Allama Zayla’i has discussed the hadiths pertaining to these questions thoroughly in his Nasb al-Raya. 1:194—199.
Hence, it is established that women in their periods are prohibited from entering the masjid area. The same pertains to those who are in a seminally defiled state and are in need of a ritual bath [ghusl]. However, it would be permissible for such people to enter a side hall or room in an Islamic Center that is not considered the actual masjid or sanctified prayer area, for instance to attend a dars or lecture.
This hadith is discussed in the link i posted above where it says, “There is general agreement among the scholars of hadith that this hadith is weak. Ahmad ibn Hanbal, al-Bukhari, Abdul Rahman ibn Mahdi, Ali ibn al-Madini, al-Baihaqi and Abu Hatim all rejected this narration.”
An important point worth considering from the above article… “[Imam] Muslim records [in his Sahih] from Aisha who said: The Prophet (peace be upon him) asked me to give him a mat from the mosque. I said, ‘I am menstruating.’ He answered, ‘Your menstruation is not in your hands.’ This hadith demonstrates that a woman’s touch cannot be considered impure while she is on her menses.”