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Permissibility of sexual intercourse during menstruation

Q:

Is it permissible to have sexual intercourse with your husband when their are signs that you have gotten menstruation (but no heavy bleeding) or at the end when period is tapering off.

A:

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It is impermissible and Haram to have sexual intercourse during your period. One must pay _kafarah_ for it in Gold.

Kindly see the link below for further explanation:

Ruling 449. Sexual intercourse is unlawful on the days when even though ḥayḍ is not certain, the woman must still regard herself as being ḥāʾiḍ. Therefore, a husband cannot have intercourse with his wife on the days when she experiences bleeding for more than ten days and who must – according to the instructions that will be mentioned later – regard the days of her close relatives’ habitual pattern as her ḥayḍ days.

Ruling 450. If a man has sexual intercourse with his wife while she is in the state of ḥayḍ, it is obligatory on him to seek forgiveness from Allah. However, giving recompense (kaffārah) is not obligatory on him, even though it is better that he gives kaffārah. The kaffārah for sexual intercourse at the beginning of ḥayḍ is one legal (sharʿī) mithqāl(1) of coined gold, at the middle of ḥayḍ it is half a legal mithqāl, and at the end of ḥayḍ it is one quarter of a legal mithqāl. A legal mithqāl is eighteen nukhuds.(2)

Ruling 451. Apart from having sexual intercourse with a ḥāʾiḍ, there is no problem in deriving other forms of sexual pleasure with her, such as kissing and foreplay.

However, a man and his wife can obtain all other pleasures from one another except _dukhul_ which means penetration.

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N.S.Jaffery