This woman sees blood for the first time. If she sees blood for more than 10 days then she should follow the same rules as a woman ‘having the habit of date’ does.
- If the blood seen has signs of haidh, the number of days it has the signs of haidh is ‘haidh’, and the rest is istihadha.
- If the blood has no signs of haidh, then a woman should consult her family, to verify the normal time duration of haidh in the family. If the majority of women in her family have the same number of days, she should follow their pattern. Then the normal duration in the family is going to be haidh, and the remaining days is istihadha.
- If the family members have different durations and it is hard to determine, then she must calculate according to a 7-day period, meaning 7 days will be haidh and the rest istihadha.
Note: Consulting your family for the # of days means asking your mother, sisters, paternal aunts and maternal aunts, and grandmothers about their blood cycle (menstruation). Asking about their duration, means asking: how many days do they see blood every month?
Some scenarios:
Scenario 1: This woman has seen blood for the first time. The blood flow went on for 10 days. In this situation, all the ten days are ‘haidh’.
Scenario 2: This woman has seen blood for the first time. The blood flow carried on for 13 days. If the blood had all the signs of haidh for 8 days for example, but did not have the signs of haidh for the last 5 days, then this woman should consider 8 days of haidh and the rest Istihadha.
Scenario 3: This woman has seen blood for the first time. The blood flow carried on for 13 days. There were no signs of haidh. In this situation this woman should consult her family and if for example her family has a habit of 8 days then this woman should consider 8 days as being haidh and 5 days as istihadha.
Scenario 4: This woman has seen blood for the first time. The blood flow carried on for 13 days. There were no signs of haidh. In this situation, this woman should consult her family and if her family has no particular duration, then she should consider 7 days as haidh and the rest as Istihadha.
Scenario 5: This woman has seen blood for the first time. The blood flow carried on for 13 days. There were no signs of haidh. In this situation, this woman should consult her family BUT she has no family, then she should consider 7 days as haidh and the rest as istihadha.
