Menstruation has nothing to do with the Salat / Siam

By Zia Mahmood fbfd
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The only Quranic prohibition related to menstruation has nothing to do with the Salat / Siam. The prohibition, which concerns married couples, is against having sexual intercourse during menstruation (2:222).

IT IS NOT A SICKNESS. IT CONTAINS HARM FOR YOU - THE HUSBAND AND NOT FOR WIFE.

They ask you about menstruation: say, "It contains harm, SO KEEP AWAY FROM WOMEN DURING MENSTRUATION, and do not approach them until they are cleansed of it. WHEN THEY ARE CLEANSED OF IT, YOU CAN APPROACH THEM as God has commanded you. God loves the repenters, and He loves those who purify themselves." 2:222

The extraordinary thing about this matter is that those who enforce un-Quranic restrictions on women, depriving them from the Salat / Siam during their menstruation, are the same people who circulate false hadith which imply that women are deficient in their religion because they do not observe the Salat at all times! Well, if you allow them to follow God's law they would not be that deficient, would they?

In addition, those who deprive women from worshipping their Creator during parts of the month manipulate the words in 2:222 to claim that women are “unclean” during menstruation so should not worship God in an unclean state!

Needless to say, the un-cleanliness mentioned in 2:222 is related only to having sexual intercourse. It is not hygienic to have sexual intercourse during menstruation. There is no mention in 2:222 of the Salat / Siam nor is it implied.
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