BLOG 86 - THE HORRORS OF MENSTRUATION

[Dr. Shabbir]

THE HORRORS OF MENSTRUATION
September 8th, 2008 by Dr. Shabbir

1971:

My first female patient in KSA, when describing her menstrual status, stunned me by saying, “I took bath from it yesterday.” What! Read on.

Allah forbids nothing but sexual intimacy during menstruation.

2:222 They ask you about menstruation. Say, “It is an inconvenience. So keep away from intimacy with women during menstruation and approach them not until they are rid of it. Once they are rid of it, you may approach them (your wives) for intimate relations in the manner designed for you by God. Indeed, God loves those who turn to Him for guidance and He loves those who stay clear of false dogmas.” [See 2]

But the Muslim clergy makes this physiological phenomenon a horrible thing forbidding what Allah has not forbidden.

Most Muslim women patients, especially Middle Eastern, tell the doctor of their last periods in a specific manner e.g. “I took bath from it on that day and date.”

- So, taking a bath during menstruation is almost Haraam (Forbidden).

- No male members will bathe in the same bath room until after the next prayer time.

- Following the Hindu trait, many Muslim women avoid going to the kitchen during those days.

- Touching the Qur’an and reading it, praying, fasting are all Forbidden.

- During Qur’an “Khwani” gatherings which are usually fashion shows, you might have seen a few women sitting aside in a corner silently but shamelessly announcing to public that “they are under the weather.” Why should they come in the first place? Fashion show.

- Even Hajj is nullified if a woman gets her periods during the days of Hajj. Women pilgrims go there well-stocked with birth control pills in order to delay their periods.

- For some of them, sitting on a bed, even her husband’s or child’s bed, will render it ‘Najis’ (unclean). If any male family member sits on that bad, he too will become ‘Najis’ requiring instant ‘cleansing’ bath.

- The top class N2I women, following their Mullahs, won’t even breast feed their babies during the periods.

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[Dr. Shabbir]

HORRORS OF MENSTRUATION
September 16th, 2008 by Dr. Shabbir

By Courtney Schatz

Some of the horrors of menstruation that the N2I women must endure, along with their menfolk, are not only lifted from Hinduism, where women cannot even enter a temple or the family shrine-room, but also from Judaism.

Judaism has such contempt for menstruating women that a man cannot even sit on a seat where a menstruating woman might have sat. So the most observant Jewish males will never use the seats on any form of public transport: they’ll stand the entire way, just in case the seat was previously occupied by a menstruating woman! (Do they think “it’s catching”?)

Orthodox Jewish married couples always have separate beds so that they are not sleeping in the same bed during menstruation. And after menstruation is over, the Orthodox Jewish women must go to a special ritual bath (mikvah) and immerse themselves to restore their purity and cleanliness.

There’s something deeply superstitious and misogynistic about all this fuss over a natural function…
Courtney Schatz

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[Dr. Shabbir]

THE HORRORS OF MENSTRUATION
September 9th, 2008 by Dr. Shabbir

Here is a fabricated saying ascribed to the exalted Prophet: Passing by a group of women the Rasool (S) said, “Give charity O Women! Most of you women will be in the Hellfire because you are Naaqisaati ‘Aqlinw-Wad-Deen (Deficient in Intellect and Religion).”

A woman protested why they would be in the Hellfire, and how they are deficient in intellect and Deen. Then he went ahead to explain that women cannot pray or fast during menstruation and the witness of a woman equals one half of a man’s witness. Ref: [Hadith Bukhari (volume 1) Kitabul Haidh (The Book of Menstruation) chapter 208, Tarke Hayedis Saum (Leaving of Saum by a menstruating woman) Hadith # 295]

Without any doubt, you will find Mullahs and Mullanis trying to defend and rationalize even this great insult.

Nevertheless, there is nothing to that effect in the Qur’an.

For the question on witness, please see verse 2:282. First of all, the matter under discussion only pertains to a deed of loan. The verse says that two men (not one) should witness the signing of the document. If two men are not available, then let there be one man and two women, all of them you satisfactorily consider competent as witnesses - so that even if the witnessing woman gets distracted (for example, by her baby), the accompanying woman may support and remind her. Hence, the second woman is not a witness in the court of law. She will not speak to the court. She is there only to support and remind the witnessing woman if she gets distracted.