- Nifas (Meaning Blood after Childbirth)

Definition of Nifas and time
1) Nifas, meaning the blood discharged by a woman after childbirth. It has no minimum time, meaning even if one drop of blood comes out from when the child has half come out then this is Nifas. The maximum time for Nifas is forty days and nights.

2)  The recognition of Nifas is from when the child has half come out. Notice. In this text, whenever the words childbirth are used it means from when the child has come out half way or more.

3)  If blood comes out for a woman more than forty days then if this is their first child or she cannot remember how long the blood came from a previous childbirth, then in both situation the full forty days and nights is Nifas and the rest is Istihaza. If the woman can remember the length of the last Nifas bleeding then upto them days is Nifas and anything over them days (as long as the total goes over forty days) is Istihaza. For example, if someone's habit for Nifas is thirty days and this time the bleeding was for forty-five days then the thirty days is Nifas and the rest is Istihaza.

4) Before the delivery of the pregnancy, if blood comes, then it is Istihaza until the child is half born.

5) If some blood comes before the delivery of the pregnancy then it is Istihaza and if some blood comes after then this is Nifas, this is as long as their has been some parts of the child's body being created otherwise if it is the menstrual cycle, then it is so, otherwise it is Istihaza.

6)  If blood sometimes come and sometimes it doesn't as long as it is all within the forty days it is Nifas, whether the gap is longer than fifteen days or not.

7) The order for the colours of Nifas is the same as mentioned for the colours of Haiz. 

RULES OF HAIZ AND NIFAS

1) It is Haram to pray Salaah or to keep a fast (Siyam) whilst in menstruation or bleeding after childbirth (Haiz or Nifas).

2) Salaah is forgiven in both these situations and there is no need to keep Qadha for the missed Salaah. However, it is obligatory to keep the Qadha of the missed Siyam in both these situations.

3) During the times of Salaah, a woman should perform Wudhu and pray the Durood or some other prayer for the duration of the Salaah, so that she will remain in habit. For a woman on her period or during Nifas to pray the Qur'an whether by looking at it or off by heart, or to touch it whether the whole of it or part of it or a verse of it by the tips of the fingers or any other part of the body is all Haram [Hindiya etc.].

4) To touch a piece of paper with a verse of the Qur'an written on it is also Haram.

5)  If the Qur'an is wrapped in a cloth (Juzdan) then to hold the Juzdan is allowed [Hindiya].

6) The rules are the same in this situation for touching the Qur'an or other religious books as it is for when bathing is obligatory for someone, this has been covered in the Ghusl section.

7)  If the tutor has Haiz or Nifas then she should teach each verse whilst breaking it into parts (breathing in between the words), there is no problem in spelling.

8) It is Makrooh to pray Dua-e-Kunoot whilst in Haiz or Nifas.

9)  Except for the Qur'an all other recitations, submissions, Durood etc. is allowed without any problems, in fact it is better. It is also better to perform Wudhu or mouthwash, but it is still okay without doing this. There is no harm in touching anything except for the Qur'an.

10) Sexual Intercourse is Haram in this situation, however, to sleep, sit, eat, kiss is all allowed.