Can anyone clarify what is allowed and not allowed concerning menstruation?
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I have read in the Quran that intercourse is not allowed during menstruation, but I have also heard some other things, and I am not sure what advice/rules were taken from the Quran and which ones were not.
First, I have heard that a woman who is menstruating cannot touch a Quran. That she can listen to it, but cannot actually touch the book containing the Quran. Does this information come from the Quran, or is this from hadith?
Second, I have heard that she cannot even pray during menstruation? This seems a bit absurd, but I thought I would make sure.
Also... are there any other area's that, according to the Quran, menstruation should be considered? Such as fasting, or anything else?
Thank you all who answer. Peace and have a lovely day.
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peace,
You know it would be nice to get a response sometimes to threads in which you are replied to. For example in another thread, I mentioned www.studyquran.org to you. On this site there is a topics index and you can look up "menstruation" for example and it gives all the verses that discuss this, which should answer your question.
Of course, since you did not respond previously, I do not know if you read the reply or not.
Alternatively, you could do a forum search or site search (www.free-minds.org), which would bring up
http//www.free-minds.org/mensturation -
peace,
You know it would be nice to get a response sometimes to threads in which you are replied to. For example in another thread, I mentioned www.studyquran.org to you. On this site there is a topics index and you can look up "menstruation" for example and it gives all the verses that discuss this, which should answer your question.
Of course, since you did not respond previously, I do not know if you read the reply or not.
Alternatively, you could do a forum search or site search (www.free-minds.org), which would bring up
http//www.free-minds.org/mensturationSorry I did not respond to your other post, but honestly the only response I could have given was that I followed the link to the project root list, and found it all incredibly confusing. I'm not trying to be disrespectful or anything, just saying that in order to use the site it would take me quite a bit of time to understand what exactly I was doing. I don't know the arabic language, so I would be hopping back and forth from websites in order to find what I am looking for.
Which is perhaps fine down the road, but right now I am simply reading through the Quran for the first time, and trying to understand some of the basics. Not to mention I started off, when I first found the Quran, trying to understand the religion of Islam. Quite frankly, I was bombarded with enough information to make me want to pull my hair out, and while I'm trying to focus on Quran only, the views of others are still in my mind (and I want to make sure the information I have is from the Quran and not other sources).
Thank you for pointing out the site search though. I looked through the forum search, but ended up reading a few threads that seemed to have little to do with what I was looking for. I hadn't realized there was a site search as well. Though still, I would have asked this regardless, as people often have different viewpoints and I enjoy both reading those, as well as referring back to the Quran to see if I come to the same conclusion.
I don't know.. perhaps I am in the wrong type of forum, and would be better off going back to google and yahoo answers with my questions. ???
Peace and have a lovely day.
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Putaradivi, salam.
Try putting in some efforts, study all the articles at www.submission.org and at free-minds, and then use the search function , you will definitely get a lot off data in clarifying simple queries. People will generally not respond to basic questions which have been answered/thrashed in forum many a times over, and there is nothing to debate about them.
peace
siki
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peace,
I'm not trying to be disrespectful or anything, just saying that in order to use the site it would take me quite a bit of time to understand what exactly I was doing. I don't know the arabic language, so I would be hopping back and forth from websites in order to find what I am looking for.
I dont know the Arabic language either. Some others I know who use the site also do not know Arabic. This is not a barrier. The only barrier is will/effort and time (like in almost every aspect of life I might add). If you have both of these, you will be fine.
If you tried what I said and found it confusing, why not seek clarification? Are you concerned about looking foolish in your search for the truth? Never think that! The fools are those who do not seek the truth, those who follow the crowd blindly, those who would rather remain ignorant than risk making a mistake.In the other thread, I described what to do in order to use PRL. The starting point was if you knew of a verse where the word you were interested in studying occurred. So the question is, do you?
If you do, type the verse into the "search function" of PRL (click found top right), and it will list ALL the roots in the verse. So, from then, it is simply a matter of process of elimination. Usually there is no more than 10 and about half will have meanings listed, so if those meanings dont resemble the word you are studying, then they can be eliminated, leaving about 5. Then, eliminating these by simply checking each root in PRL will eliminate all but one. The whole process takes about 5mins, which is perhaps less time than it took to write the post. Of course, the first time might take longer, but your speed will improve dramatically only after a few goes.
Can you point out where specifically you got stuck/confused? It is not only helpful for you, but also for me, as I would like PRL to be as user-friendly as possible, so you'd be doing me a favour.I don't know.. perhaps I am in the wrong type of forum, and would be better off going back to google and yahoo answers with my questions.
You give up too easily!
