ILM AL-HÂL

100 If wiping over the affected limb is likely to cause any harm, one does not make masah, either. Masah over a bandage has no specific duration unlike masah over leather socks. Thus, wiping over the bandage shall continue so long as the reason lasts. It is not obligatory to dress the bandage in a state of Wudhû, either. Furthermore, if the bandage is opened or falls off or when a second bandage is bound over the first one, one does not need not to renew Masah. SITUATIONS PARTICULAR TO WOMEN There are three conditions particular to women: 1. Haydh (Menstruation), 2. Nifâs (Postnatal bleeding), 3. Istihâdhah (Abnormal Uterine Bleeding). 1. Haydh (Menstruation): It is the blood, discharged at certain periods from the uterus of a female, who has reached the age of maturity. The earliest start of it may be at the age of nine and the latest termination of it may be at fifty-five. The blood, which is thus discharged, is called ‘the blood of menstruation’, and the state ‘the state of menstruation’. 2. Nifâs: Nifâs is the blood of the postnatal bleeding, discharged through an adult female’s genitals following her delivery of a baby. 3. Istihâdhah: It is the blood, discharged from a menstruating woman, which is seen before 3 days or