I want to know that wether a girl while having her menstrual cycle can hold quran in her hands and read it.
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i want
to know that wether a girl while having her menstrual cycle can hold quran in
her hands and read it. and if cant hold in hands than can she offer some duas
like sura fatiha or durood sharif
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Answer:
Women menses Quran
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is no one (no idol, no person, no
grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai,
nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 56 Surah Waqiah verse 77-79:
That this is a
Glorious Quran, inscribed in a
well-guarded Book, which none can
touch, except the purified.
Although
the above aayah is meant to state how the Quran is honored by the noble angels
in the heavens; the scholars have opined
that just as the Quran is honored in the heavens by the angels, so should it be honored on the earth…. And
thus, one should touch it only when one
is pure and clean.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 222:
They ask about the
monthly periods (of the women). Say (O
Prophet), “It is a state of impurity; so
keep apart from the women during their monthly periods and do not go near them
(sexual intercourse) until they are clean.”
According to most
scholars, one who is physically unclean (because of sex or menstruation) should
not touch the Qur'an. This is based on a hadith from
To
the best of our knowledge, we have not come across any authentic narrations of
the Messenger of Allah (saws) where he explicitly forbade the menstruating
women to touch the Holy Quran. But it
is a consensus of the scholars, who have given their opinion in light of the
above aayahs of the Holy Quran and the practice of the Messenger of Allah
(saws), that a person who is impure,
should not touch the Quran.
All the scholars and major schools of thought in Islam are
absolutely unanimous in their opinion that there is absolutely no harm for a
woman, who is experiencing her menstrual period, to recite the Quran from
memory, or make supplications, or praise and glorify her Lord Most High, Most
Exalted.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and well wisher in
Islam,
Burhan
Wister