{"id":20886,"date":"2021-04-07T18:43:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=20886"},"modified":"2021-04-07T18:43:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:43:31","slug":"does-an-internal-pregnancy-check-necessitate-a-ghusl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/does-an-internal-pregnancy-check-necessitate-a-ghusl\/","title":{"rendered":"Does an Internal Pregnancy Check Necessitate a Ghusl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 05205<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answered by: Maulana Syed Johir Miah<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Question<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Does an Internal Pregnancy Check Necessitate a Ghusl?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Your question is whether an internal pregnancy check necessitates ghusl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">There are few different types of tests that are carried out by the GP or a practitioner, in which it involves inserting something into the female private parts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">An internal bimanual exam is when the doctor places one or two gloved fingers in the patient&#8217;s vagina and the other hand on top of the patient&#8217;s lower abdomen, to feel the patient&#8217;s cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">A smear test or cervical screening is carried out by a gynecologist to check the health of the patient&#8217;s cervix. The cervix is the opening to the womb from the vagina.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">This test\u00a0involves the practitioner taking a sample of cells from the cervix (neck of the womb) by inserting a device called a speculum (a device that holds the vagina open)in the vagina. It is not a\u00a0test\u00a0for cancer, it is a\u00a0test\u00a0to help prevent cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Both of these methods do not necessitate ghusl <a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>. However, this will break ablution.<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">As for inserting medicine into a woman\u2019s vagina, our [Hanafi] scholars have stated that her fast is invalidated by consensus because there is an opening in her bladder which results in the substance reaching the stomach.<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In view of this, according to the view of classical Hanafi jurists (fuqaha), a cervical smear test would invalidate a woman\u2019s fast, since it involves inserting a lubricated speculum fully into her vagina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">After an internal examination, a woman does not have to bathe. A wudhu will suffice <a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a> in order for her to read salah etc., as she is not impure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Written by Maulana Syed Johir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0 \u0648\u0625\u062f\u062e\u0627\u0644 \u0625\u0635\u0628\u0639 \u0648\u0646\u062d\u0648\u0647 \u0641\u064a \u0623\u062d\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0628\u064a\u0644\u064a\u0646<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Nurul Idah, 28\/1, Al-Maktabatul Asriyyah, 2005. Maraqiyul Falah, 44\/1, Al-Maktabatul Asriyyah, 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0 \u0648\u062c\u0648\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u063a\u0633\u0644 \u064a\u062a\u0639\u0644\u0642 \u0628\u0623\u062d\u062f \u0645\u0639\u0627\u0646 \u062b\u0644\u0627\u062b\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0646\u0627\u0628\u0629 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u062d\u064a\u0636 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0646\u0641\u0627\u0633\u060c<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Tuhfatul Fuqaha, Samarqandi, 26\/1, Darul Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, 1414\u00a0 H<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0 \u0648\u0623\u0645\u0651\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0642\u0652\u0637\u0627\u0631\u064f \u0641\u0650\u064a \u0642\u064f\u0628\u064f\u0644\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u064e\u0631\u0652\u0623\u0629\u0650 \u0641\u064e\u0642\u064e\u062f\u0652 \u0642\u0627\u0644\u064e \u0645\u064e\u0634\u0627\u064a\u0650\u062e\u064f\u0646\u0627: \u0625\u0646\u0651\u0647\u064f \u064a\u064f\u0641\u0652\u0633\u0650\u062f\u064f \u0635\u064e\u0648\u0652\u0645\u064e\u0647\u0627 \u0628\u0650\u0627\u0644\u0625\u062c\u0652\u0645\u0627\u0639\u0650\u060c \u0644\u0650\u0623\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0644\u0650\u0645\u064e\u062b\u0627\u0646\u064e\u062a\u0650\u0647\u0627 \u0645\u064e\u0646\u0641\u064e\u0630\u064b\u0627 \u0641\u064e\u064a\u064e\u0635\u0650\u0644\u064f \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u064e\u0648\u0652\u0641\u0650 \u0643\u0627\u0644\u0625\u0642\u0652\u0637\u0627\u0631\u0650 \u0641\u0650\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0623\u064f\u0630\u064f\u0646\u0650.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Bada\u2019i As-Sana\u2019i, 2\/93, Darul Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah, 1406 H.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a>\u00a0 \u0639\u064e\u0646\u0652 \u062c\u0627\u0628\u0650\u0631\u064d \u0623\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0651\u064e\u0628\u0650\u064a\u0651\u064e \ufdfa \u0642\u0627\u0644\u064e: \u00ab\u0627\u0644\u0648\u064f\u0636\u064f\u0648\u0621\u064f \u0645\u0650\u0645\u0651\u0627 \u064a\u064e\u062e\u0652\u0631\u064f\u062c\u064f \u0648\u0644\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0633\u064e \u0645\u0650\u0645\u0651\u0627 \u064a\u064e\u062f\u0652\u062e\u064f\u0644\u064f<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Musnad Ibn Ja\u2019ad, 449\/1, Muassisah Nadir, Beirut, Lebanon, 1440 H.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u0625\u0646\u0645\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0636\u0648\u0621 \u064a\u0646\u062a\u0642\u0636 \u0645\u0645\u0627 \u064a\u062e\u0631\u062c \u0648\u0644\u064a\u0633 \u0645\u0645\u0627 \u064a\u062f\u062e\u0644 Al-Asl, Imam Muhammad, 45\/1, and 58\/1, Idaratul Quran,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref7\" name=\"_ftn7\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 05205 &nbsp; Answered by: Maulana Syed Johir Miah &nbsp; Question &nbsp; Does an Internal Pregnancy Check Necessitate a Ghusl? &nbsp; &nbsp; In the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21375,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886\/revisions\/21375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}