Women having the habit of time and duration

485. Women having the habit of time and duration are of three types:

A woman who sees blood in two consecutive months at a particular time for a particular duration. For example, she sees blood on the 1st of each month and becomes Pak on the 7th of each month. Her habit of Hayz will be from first to seventh of every month.
A woman who does not become Pak from blood, however, in two consecutive months at a particular time for a particular duration, for example, from 1st to 8th of both months sees a blood, which bears the sign of Hayz, i.e. thick and warm and its color is either black or red and it discharges with pressure and a little irritation, and during other days, the blood has the signs of Istihadha, hence, her menses period will be from 1st to 8th of each month.  
A woman who sees blood in each of the two consecutive months at a particular time and after 3 or more days, she may become Pak for one or more days and sees the blood again; but the total number of days during which the blood is seen as well as those during which she remains Pak does not exceed 10 days; and in each month the total number of days during which blood is seen, and the intervening days during which she is Pak must be same.
In such a case the habit of the woman will be counted according to the days during which blood is seen and will be classified as Haa’ez, excluding the intervening days during which she remained Pak. As per precautionary measures, during those days when she do not see blood she should perform her obligations and refrain from the acts which are forbidden for Haa’ez. And if she sees blood during which she was Pak in previous months, it is necessary for her to refrain from the acts which are forbidden for Haa'ez and to perform the obligations of a Mustahadha.

486. If a woman who has a fixed habit of time and duration, sees blood two days earlier, will be classified as Hayz even if it does not bear the signs of Hayz. Therefore, she will act according to the rules applied to a Haa'ez. And if it transpires that it was not Hayz, for example, if she becomes Pak before three days, then she should offer Qadha for the acts of worship (Ibadaat), which she has left out.

487. If a woman having the habit of time and duration sees blood during all days of her fixed habit plus a few days before and after, and if the total number of days does not exceed 10, all of it is Hayz. And if it exceeds 10 days, then only the blood seen during the days of habit is Hayz and the rest will be Istihadha, and she should offer Qadha of the acts of worship which she did not perform during the days before and after her habit.
And if she sees blood on all the days of her habit as well as a few days earlier, and if the total number of the days does not exceed 10, all of it is Hayz. And if it exceeds ten days, then blood seen

during the days of habit will be Hayz, and the blood seen earlier will be classified as Istihadha. She will offer Qadha for the prayers left out during those earlier days.

 And if she sees blood during her days of fixed habit plus a few days after her habit, and if the total does not exceed ten days, all of it is Hayz. But if it exceeds ten days, then the blood seen during habitual days will be Hayz, and the rest is Istihadha.

And if she sees blood before and after her days of fixed habit, which does not bear the signs of Hayz, and if the total does not exceed ten days, as per precautionary measures, during the discharge of such blood, it is necessary for her to refrain from the acts which are forbidden for Haa'ez and to perform the obligations of a Mustahadha.

488. If a woman who has the fixed habit of time and duration, sees blood bearing the signs of Hayz on some days of her habit and also a few days earlier and if the total number of days does not exceed 10 days, all of it is Hayz. And if the number of days exceeds 10 she will add the number of days within her habitual time to the earlier days and complete her fixed duration. Those will be the days of Hayz, and the rest will be Istihadha.

And if she sees blood which bears the sign of Hayz during some of her habitual days plus some days later, and if the total number of days does not exceed ten, then all of it will be Hayz.

And if the total exceeds ten days, then she will add the number of her habitual time to the later days so as to complete her fixed period of duration. These will then be the days of Hayz, and the rest will be classified as Istihadha.

489. If a woman has a fixed habit of Hayz and if she sees blood for 3 days or more, and then it stops and is thereafter seen again, and the gap between the two discharges is less than 10 days, and if the total number of days in which blood was seen together with the intermediary period in which it stopped exceeds 10 days, for example: blood is seen for 5 days and then stops for 5 days and is again seen on the following 5 days, then it has various rules:

• If the blood, all or part thereof, seen in the initial days was during the days of her habit and the blood seen later in the second phase after her temporary state of being Pak did not come during the days of her habit, then she should treat her first blood to be Hayz and the second one as Istihadha.

• If the blood seen in the initial days is not during the days of her habit but the second blood, all or part thereof was seen in the days of her habit, then she should treat the entire second blood to be Hayz and the first as Istihadha.
• If the first and the second blood, all or part thereof, seen during the days of her habit, and the first blood which was seen during the days of her habits, is not seen for less than 3 days, and the gap between the discharges of the two blood is not more than 10 days, then in this situation, if she sees blood one or two days earlier, as per precautionary measures, in these one or two days, it is necessary for her to refrain from the acts which are forbidden for Haa'ez and to perform the obligations of a Mustahadha, and she should also take precautionary measures, for the blood seen after her days of habitual discharge, whose total duration (i.e. the discharge of the two blood and gap) does not exceed 10 days, and the part of first and second blood which was discharged during her habitual period is classified as Hayz and during the gap in which she was Pak, she should refrain from the acts which are forbidden for Haa'ez and to perform her obligations.

For example, if her habit was to see blood on 3rd to 10th of every month, and during any one month the habit changed and she saw blood from 1st to 6th, and then remained Pak for a day. Thereafter, she saw blood again till 14th. As mentioned earlier, precautionary measures should be taken on 1st and 2nd of month as well as on 9th and 10th, and from 3rd to 6th and 8th should be classified as Hayz and on 7th, the day when she is Pak, she should refrain from the acts which are forbidden for Haa'ez and to perform her obligations.

• If a part of the first and the second blood is seen during the days of her habit, however, both bloods, which was seen during the days of her habitual period, lasts for less than 3 days, it is necessary that during the discharge of both blood, she should refrain from the acts which are forbidden for Haa'ez and to perform the obligations of a Mustahadha. And during the days when she is Pak, she should refrain from the acts which are forbidden on Haa’ez and should perform her obligations and offer her prayers.

490. If a woman with fixed habit of time and duration fails to see blood in her habit, and sees it earlier or later with the equal number of days and bears the signs of Hayz, it will be considered as Hayz.

491. If a woman who has the habit of time and duration sees blood in her habit for three or more days, but for less than her usual number of days and then her blood stops and thereafter is seen again for days equal to the number of days of her habit,

she will treat the whole period, including the intervening days, as one Hayz, if it does not exceed ten days. But if the number of intervening days during which she is Pak from blood is ten days or more, then each period of bleeding will be regarded as a separate period of Hayz.

And if the intervening gap is less than 10 days, but the total of first, second and intervening period exceeds ten days, then the first phase will be Hayz, and the second one Istihadha.

492. If a woman who has fixed habit of time and duration sees blood for more than 10 days, the blood which she sees during the days of her habit is Hayz, even though it may not have the signs of Hayz, and the blood which is seen after the days of her habit is Istihadha even though it may have the sign of Hayz.
For example, if the blood of a woman whose habit is from the 1st to the 7th of the month is seen from the 1st to the 12th of a particular month, the blood which is seen during the first 7 days will be Hayz and that which is seen during the remaining 5 days will be Istihadha.