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Sees brownish discharge, but thinks she may be pregnant

Question

Assalamualikum wa rahmatullahi wabarakat, i want to know if i can perform swalaat after browish discharge. One and a half day after bleeding i appeared this brown discharge for a duration of 3days. I really dont know if im pregnant or not. Please help me. Jzakallah

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  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allaah exalt his mention ) is His slave and Messenger.

Since this brownish discharge comes out during the days of menses and is connected to it – as it appears from the question – then it is considered as part of the menses. Therefore, you are not permitted to perform the prayer until you become pure either by seeing the white discharge or by becoming dry. If a woman doubts whether or not she is pregnant, and she has blood discharges at the regular time of menses and it has the characteristics of the menstrual blood, then it is menses. For more benefit, please refer to Fataawa 136802 and 136488.

So, it is not permissible for you to perform the prayer on the pretext that you may be pregnant and a pregnant woman does not have menses according to the preponderant opinion of the scholars  may  Allaah  have  mercy  upon  them. However, nowadays it is very easy for a woman to find out whether or not she is pregnant; for more benefit, please refer to Fataawa 84751, 100850, 91444 and 98693.

Allaah Knows best.

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