Prohibited for Menstruating and Post Natal Bleeding Women to Fast. Pregnant and Breast Feeding Women

Prohibited for Menstruating and Post Natal Bleeding Women to Fast. Pregnant and Breast Feeding Women are Exempted from Fasting. - Dr Zakir Naik

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Yusuf Chambers: Only those people who have got the responsibility to make the intention knowingly.

Dr. Zakir: That’s right.

Yusuf Chambers: Okay, that’s excellent. Next question from the point of view of a woman who is undergoing menstruation post-natal bleeding is it prohibited or optional for them to fast this Ramadhaan?

Dr. Zakir: As far as the woman who are undergoing menstrual cycles or post-natal bleeding according to our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saws), its mentioned in Sahih Bukhari, also in Sahih Muslim that it is forbidden for a woman to fast who is bleeding due to menstrual cycle or post-natal bleeding.

So it is not optional, it is forbidden. And the reason is because when the blood flows out in a lady, in a woman, she loses a lot of blood and on top of that if she fasts it will not be good for her health. So Allah (swt), it is His Mercy that he has exempted them and made it compulsory not to fast otherwise it may be damaging for her health. And Allah (swt) does not want to overburden any of the human beings. So that’s the reason they are exempted from fasting and even in the middle of the day if the menstruation begins, they have to break their fast. Even if it begins a few minutes before sunset, they have to break the fast but they have to compensate later on. But if they are undergoing the menstrual period and if the period stops just before Fajr even if they did not have a bath, they can start their fast. But if it ends even a few minutes after Fajr, they cannot fast. They have to break their fast but they have to compensate it later on

Yusuf Chambers: The next query really is regarding a woman who is pregnant or is nursing, breast-feeding, nursing very young children, why are they exempted?

Dr. Zakir: According to a verse of the Quran in Surah Baqarah ch. no. 2 verse no. 185 that

“If a person is ill and traveling he can make up his prescribed periods of day of fasting later on”

So most of the Fuqas, most of the scholars, they say that these women who are pregnant and breast-feeding, they come under the category of those who are ill. So therefore if they want they can abstain from fasting but there are clear-cut Sahih Ahadith in which the Prophet has exempted these women from fasting mentioned in

Sunan Ibn Maajah Hadith no. 1667 that our beloved Prophet says

“The obligation for a person to fast and part of the prayer has been lifted from a traveler. And the obligation for fasting has been lifted from a lady whose pregnant and who is breast-feeding”

Our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saws) also said its mentioned in

Sunan Nasai in the Book of Fasting Hadith no. 2274 that

“Allah (swt) has relieved the traveler from fasting and half his prayer and Allah (swt) has relieved the pregnant woman and the woman who is breast-feeding from fasting.”

So based on these 2 hadith also, its clear cut that the pregnant woman and the women who are breast-feeding, they’ve been exempted and the logical reason that one can think is because when a lady, she’s pregnant or she is breast-feeding the food she eats is not only for herself, its for herself as well as the baby she is carrying or the baby she is feeding.
So but natural if her fasting makes it difficult for her or it becomes difficult for her baby then she is ...


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