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We know that girl cant pray namaz during her periods but she can read and listen quran but if she listen sajda tilawat what she has to do will she prostate or not ? if she prostate will that is accepted?

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Sajdah tilawah in menses

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 none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Your Statements: ….we know that girl cant pray namaz during her periods but she can read and listen quran

The believing woman experiencing her menstruation is indeed exempted from offering her prayers.

There is absolutely no harm in her reciting the Glorious Quran from memory, or listening to the recitation of the Glorious Quran by someone else or through the electronic media; but the majority of the scholars and jurists in Islam are of the opinion that she should abstain from physically touching a copy of the Glorious Quran.

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 Glorious 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, or post childbirth, etc.) should not physically touch the Glorious Quran. This is based on a hadith from Hadrat Ali (r.a.), in which he stated that nothing kept the Messenger of Allah (saws) from touching the Quran save being sexually impure.

To the best of our knowledge, we have not 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 physically 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 normal or post childbirth menstruation, to recite the Quran from memory, or make supplications, or praise and glorify her Lord Most High, Most Exalted; but it would be best if she would abstain from physically touching the Glorious Quran with her bare hands.

Your Question: ….but if she listen sajda tilawat what she has to do will she prostate or not ? if she prostate will that is accepted?

The restrictions placed on a believing woman experiencing her menstruation during worship are as follows:

1. She should not enter a masjid.
2. She should not offer her prayers or observe fasts.
3. She should not perform the ‘tawaaf’ around the Kaaba.
4. She should abstain from physically touching a copy of the Glorious Quran.

Apart from the above listed restrictions, the believing woman experiencing her menses is at absolute liberty to remember her Lord, make supplications unto him, recite the Glorious Quran from memory, recite the ‘durood’, make prostrations (sajdah), etc. as often as she wills or is easy for her.

If the believing woman experiencing her menstruation happens to listen to the Glorious Quran and comes across an Aayah of ‘Sajdah-Tilaawah’, she should make the required prostration as normal…..it is expected that her Lord Most Gracious will accept her worship and not diminish her rewards in the least, Insha Allah.

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