مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) - الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم - الصفحة ١١٣ - WOMAN HAVING THE HABIT OF NUMBER

possible that there is blood in her interior part she should place some cotton in her private parts and wait for some time and then take it out. And if as a result of this action it transpires that she has been purified of blood she should take bath and perform her acts of worship. And if she has not been purified of blood and she does not have a habit of menses or her habit is ١٠ days she should wait so that if she is purified before ١٠ days or her blood extends beyond ١٠ days, she should take bath at the end of ١٠ days. And if her habit is for less than ١٠ days and she knows that she will be purified of blood before tim@ completion of ١٠ days, or at the end of ١٠ days, she should not take bath. And if it is probable that blood will come even after ١٠ days, she should abandon the acts of worship for one day and thereafter it is permissible for her to follow the orders relating to istihaza. However precaution is that till the lOth day she should refrain from all those things which it is not permissible for a haiz to perform, and should act according to the obligations of a mustahaza. And this rule is particularly for that woman whose blood was not discharged regularly before her habit was formed. Otherwise it is not permissible for her to abandon her acts of worship after the period of her habit has passed.
٥١٣. If a woman treats the blood discharged during a few days to be menses and does not perform her acts of worship but comes to know later that it was not menses she should perform qaza of the lapsed prayers, and fasts, which she did not observe during those days. And if she performs acts of worship under the impression that the blood is not menses but realizes later that it was menses and has also been observing obligatory fasts during those days, she should perform qaza of those fasts.