This is a question from a woman who says she has been suffering for nine years.

That is, since her marriage, from irregular menstrual cycles.

The bleeding continues without stopping except after taking medication.

After the medication, for a month or two it becomes regular, then the continuous bleeding returns again, to the point that it is difficult for her to determine her normal period days, which are eight days.

It should be noted that the continuous bleeding is not always the same; sometimes it is heavy and sometimes it is light.

Sometimes it is brownish discharge, and this blood is mixed together, meaning the heavy, the light, and the brownish discharge.

For example, after taking the treatment and at its scheduled time, it came down on the twentieth of August.

Four hundred and fifteen, and the collapse of Sha'ban, and the bleeding continued until the fourteenth.

In the month of Shawwal, that's fifty-four days, and this blood varies, sometimes a lot and sometimes a little in a day. About fifty-four days.

From the twentieth of August to the fourteenth.

Okay, she remained for ten. Yes, she remained for nine. Yes, about fifty-four days.

And this blood varies, sometimes a lot and sometimes a little in a day, and sometimes it's muddy, and sometimes it's continuous all day and sometimes only part of the day.

After that, she was admitted to the hospital and underwent a cleaning procedure.

After that, and all praise is due to Allah, the bleeding stopped up to the time of writing this message.

Or this statement, and she underwent a laparoscopy because of cysts on the ovary, which are said to be the reason for the irregular cycle.

That was before the cleaning, but even after these two procedures, the cycle did not become regular.

The question: what is the ruling on fasting the month of Ramadan?

No, because she continued taking the treatment and cleaned it, and even so, it did not continue, but the point is.

The discussion is about fasting Ramadan, meaning she fasted the entire month of Ramadan.

She says, what is the ruling on my fasting for the month of Ramadan, because I fasted it completely.

And also the prayer.

This woman is experiencing istihada.

Istihada means the continuous flow of blood from a woman.

And this blood, which is the blood of istihada, comes from a vein.

At the lowest part of the womb, but as for the natural menstrual blood, it comes from a vein at the farthest part of the womb, at the bottom of the womb.

The Prophet ﷺ clarified the ruling for a woman with continuous bleeding, that she should refer back to her original habit.

If it was regular, we say: sit out for the number of days that your menstruation used to come.

At its time, so if the change happened at the beginning of the month,

then continuous bleeding occurred, we say: sit out from the beginning of each month.

As it was, and for the rest, you may pray and fast and there is no problem.

If she does not have a regular habit, or her habit is irregular—sometimes seven days at the beginning of the month, sometimes at the end, and she does not know.

Then she should refer to distinguishing characteristics.

And distinguishing means that she joins this group.

If it is always the same, then there is no distinguishing characteristic for her.

But if it differs—sometimes black, thick, with a foul odor.

Meaning it has a smell, and sometimes it is red, then we say: Sit out for the black, foul-smelling blood, because this is menstruation.

As for the thin red blood, this is istihada.

If she says she cannot distinguish, the blood is the same throughout.

This is a third case for the woman with istihada, we say: sit out.

From the beginning of each month, six or seven days.

This woman, from whom we now understand that she did not sit out.

She did not sit out, so we ask her: how many days was your habit before this incident? She says: my habit was six days from the beginning of the month.

We say: make up six days.

Of fasting Ramadan. As for the prayer, there is nothing upon her, because when she left the prayer thinking it was menstruation, there is nothing upon her.

She prayed.

And likewise. Okay, so that means. the issue is finished, there is no problem.

Because if she prayed at the time when we judged that she was

not menstruating, then she has caught the prayer. And if she prayed at the time when she was menstruating, then she prayed out of ignorance.

Then there is nothing required of her. As for fasting, we say: make up the number of days you used to have before you experienced this loss of wudu.