48: THINGS TO BE AVOIDED DURING PERIODS (MENSES)

48: THINGS TO BE AVOIDED DURING PERIODS (MENSES)

As it is said in the Quranic verse 2:222, that the husband should be away from the wife during her periods, it is misunderstood by certain people have that those women who are undergoing periods (menses) can perform all sorts of venerations including worship and fasting, but this assumption is wrong.

In the Quranic verse 4:43 Allah, while narrating about prayer says 'you bath when bath is obligatory for you (i—e, if you are physically impure)

In the Quranic verse 5:6 also He conveys the same idea.

We can understand from the above verse that prayer must be carried out only when a person is away from physical impurities and when he is clean,

In the Quranic verses relating menses Allah says that the females are impure during menses.

If these two verses were correlated and studied anybody could understand that one should not carryout worship during menses.

The above Quranic verses 2:222 was bestowed so as to answer the question whether one could take part in sexual intercourse during menses. If it had been asked whether one could carry out worship during menses, the Quranic verse would have been bestowed so as to reply that Question.

Since it was asked specifically whether one could take past in sexual intercourses during menses, answer pertaining to that Question only was bestowed in that Quranic verse (2: 222)

(Refer Muslim 455)

Women are humiliated during their 'periods'. They will not be allowed to stay inside the houses. They will be secluded. Nobody will touch them when they were undergoing menses. Nobody will touch even those things which are handled by those women who are undergoing menses.

Islam never accepted such superstitions.

Only five activities such as prayer, fasting, performing Thawaf in Ka’bah, entering the mosque and sexual intercourse have been prohibited for women during 'periods'

Those women who are undergoing menses can take part in all other activities (except the above five activities) as all other women who are not undergoing menses.