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Fatwa CenterMenstruating woman can perform Tawaaf al-Ifaadhah when necessary
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Asalamu alaikum,
when i was in hajj i had taken the pill to stop my menses however during the time of hajj i was expecting to start my menses and on the day of arafat i saw lil drops of brownish discharge but i was unsure on what to do..the following day i asked a imam and he said this is your period and that i cannot do my ziyarat tawaf..however if you have limited time in Makkah and do not end my period before i leave Makkah i will have to do it while on my menses so thefore i did...was this right to do?
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
If we presume that those drops are menses, and you were not able to stay in Makkah until you became pure and you performed the Tawaaf, then what you did is correct, Allaah willing, according to the view of many jurists 
. Indeed, we have already issued Fataawa 82627 and 83786 clarifying the statements of the jurists about the Tawaaf of a woman in menses who is not able to stay in Makkah until she becomes pure.
Therefore, if the drops of blood that you had were during your regular monthly menses and lasted for one day and one night, in a way that if you inserted a piece of cotton and the like into your vagina it comes out stained with blood, or that these drops were at intervals, and if the intervals were gathered together in a period of fifteen days it would be as one day and one night, then these are menses, because it reached the minimum period of menses which is one day and one night.
Since you have already asked the scholars, then you did what you are ordered to do, and we ask Allaah to accept your Hajj.
Allaah Knows best.
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