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WOMAN HAVING THE HABIT OF TIME

(ii) The women having the habit of time are to two Kinds:

493. Firstly the woman whose blood is discharged in each of the two consecutive
months at a particular time and then stops for a few days but the number of
days during which the blood is discharged is different in each month. For example,
if the blood starts coming on the Ist of each month but stops on the 7th of
the first month and on the 8th of the second month the woman should treat the
Ist of the month to be her habit. Secondly a woman whose blood is discharged
in two consecutive months at a particular time for 8 or more days and then stops
and th coming and the total number of days during which it terminated does not
exceed 10 but the number of days during the 2nd month is more or less as compared
with the 1st month. For example, if the blood starts coming on the let day of
each of the two consecutive months but the total number of days is 8 during
the last month 9 during the 2nd month the woman concerned should treat the last
of the month to be her habit.

494. It a woman has the habit of time but the number of her days is not the
same and if blood is discharged from her body some quantity of which has the
signs of menses and the rest has no such signs and if the blood with signs of
menses does not come for a period which is less than 3 days and more than 10
days it is necessary for her to treat this blood as menses and to treat the
blood which does not possess the signs of menses to be istihaza. But if her
blood comes during the time of her habit, presence of signs of menses is not
essential for its being menses. Hence if it is possible that the blood which
comes at the time of her habit may be menses it if necessary for her to treat
it to be menses. For example, if blood of a woman comes for 3 days during the
time of her habit it is menses although it may not have the signs of menses.
And the same rule applies if, for example, her blood comes for 1 day at the
time of her habit and for 2 days before her habit, or if, for example, her blood
comes for 1 day at the time of her habit and for 2 days with the signs of menses
after her habit. In these two cases also it is necessary that she should treat
the 5 days to be the days of menses. Hence if the blood which contains the signs
of menses stops before the expiry of 10 days from the time of its commencement,
all of it is menses. And if blood comes afterwards also and if that blood possesses
the signs of menses and the gap between it and the stoppage of the first blood
is 10 days or more that blood, too, is menses. otherwise it is istihaza.

495. If n woman has the habit of time and her blood comes at a time other than
her habit with the signs of menses for more than 10 days and she cannot discern
menses by means of its signs she should treat the blood that comes for 6 or
7 days to be menses and that which comes during the remaining days to be istihaza.
496. If, for example, the discharge of the blood of a woman commences every
month on the 1st of the month and at times it stops coming on the 5th day and
at times on the 7th day and if in a particular month her blood comes for 12
days and she cannot know the duration of menses by means of its signs she should
treat the blood which comes from the St to the 6th or 7th day of the month to
be menses and the rest to be istihaza. 497. If a woman with a habit knows the
time of the middle or end of her habit and if the discharge of her blood exceeds
10 days she should treat the 6 or 7 days of her menses in such a way that the
end or middle of it should accord with her habit.