Can women cut their nails during menses?
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Can
women cut their nails during menses?
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Answer:
Restriction menses menstruation
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 222:
They ask about the
monthly periods (of the women). Say (O
Prophet), “It is a state of impurity; so
keep apart from the women during their monthly periods and do not go near them
(sexual intercourse) until they are clean.”
The only things that a believing woman experiencing her
natural menses is prohibited from doing in Shariah are:
Other than the above listed six restriction the believing
woman who is experiencing her natural menses may do everything else she would
do when in the state of purity, including the clipping or cutting of her nails.
There is absolutely nothing in the Shariah which prohibits
a believing women from cutting or clipping her nails when in the state of
menses, if she wishes to do so.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
