do not permit the mosque to a menstruating woman or to one in a state of major ritual impurity.” ⦗1⦘ He also said, “The mosque is not lawful for a menstruating woman or for one in a state of major ritual impurity.” ⦗2⦘

However, she may pass through the mosque so long as she does not remain there. ʿĀʾishah (Allah be pleased with her) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Hand me the prayer-mat from the mosque.” I replied, “I am menstruating.” He said, “Your menstruation is not in your hand.” ⦗3⦘

There is no objection to a menstruating woman engaging in the prescribed remembrances—tahlīl (uttering lā ilāha illā Allah), takbīr (Allāhu akbar), tasbīḥ (subḥān Allah), and other supplications—or to her reciting the legislated litanies for morning and evening and at the times of sleeping and waking. Nor is it blameworthy for her to read works of Islamic knowledge such as tafsīr, hadith, and jurisprudence.

A note on the ruling of yellowish and brownish discharge:

Ṣufrah (yellowish discharge) is a substance resembling pus with a yellow tint, and kudrah (brownish discharge) is a fluid the color of murky, dirty water. If such yellowish or brownish discharge appears during her customary period, she is to treat it as menstruation and it carries all the rulings mentioned earlier. If it occurs outside her usual time, she is not to regard it as anything, and she considers herself