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[Using medication to prevent menstruation in Ramaḍān and during Ḥajj]

Fatwa No: 17558
Date: 2025/12/15
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Question: Is it permissible for a woman to use a treatment that prevents menstruation in Ramaḍān so that she may fast the entire month? Likewise during Ḥajj, so that menstruation does not hinder her from performing some rites?

Answer: That is permissible; her fasting is valid, and likewise her circumambulations; she is judged to be pure. This is understood from the evidences in this chapter, such as His saying, Exalted is He: “And they ask you about menstruation. Say, ‘It is harm, so keep away from wives during menstruation and do not approach them until they are pure …’” [al-Baqarah:222].
In this verse, menstruation is the harm that issues from the womb; if no such harm issues from the womb, the woman is pure.
Source : Min Thimār al-ʿIlm wa al-Ḥikmah vol.1