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I am going to Umrah inshallah. My question is what is a women to do if she gets her period? I pray this will not happen, but what parts of the Umrah can she perform?

Praise be to Allaah.

If a woman who has her period enters ihraam, she should do everything that other pilgrims do in Hajj or ‘Umrah, apart from performing Tawaaf around the Ka'bah.

She should delay Tawaaf until she is clean (when her period ends).

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Kareem al-Khudayr

She can make dhikr, make du'aa', recite the Talbiyah and do good deeds. And Allaah knows best.

She got her period during Hajj and she cannot stay

A woman came for Hajj and got her period after she entered ihaam. Her mahram had to leave straightaway and she has no one else in Makkah. What is the ruling?.

Praise be to Allaah.

She should travel with him and remain in ihraam, then she should come back when she has become pure. This applies if she lives in the land of the Two Holy Places, because it is easy to come back and does not involve a great deal of trouble or need a passport etc. But if she is a foreigner and it is difficult for her to come back, then she should tie a piece of cloth over her private part (so that no blood will leak and contaminate the Mosque), and do tawaaf and saa'i, and cut her hair, and end her ‘Umrah on the same journey, because in this case her tawaaf has become necessary, and in cases of necessity things that are ordinarily forbidden are allowed.

But she does not have to do tawaaf al-wadaa' (farewell tawaaf), because menstruating women do not have to do the farewell tawaaf, because of the hadeeth of Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him), that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told the people that the last thing they should do in Makkah was to circumambulate the Ka'bah, but he exempted menstruating women.

And when the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was told that Safiyyah had done tawaaf al-ifaadah, he said, "Then let her leave (for her Hajj is over)." This indicates that the farewell tawaaf is not obligatory for menstruating women, but tawaaf al-ifaadah is essential.

See the fatwa of Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, Essay 60, Questions about menstruation

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