500. If a muÃÔaribah—a woman who has observed blood in a few months, but has yet to develop a regular habit, or a woman whose habit was broken, and has not yet developed a new habit—observes blood for more than ten days, and all of it possesses the qualities of ÎayÃ, she should consider it as Îayà for six to seven days, if that is the habitual duration of her relatives. She should consider the rest as istiÎÁÃah.
If it is lesser—for example, five days—then she should consider it as Îayà during those days, and obligatory precaution dictates that for the days in which their habitual duration differs from six or seven days—which is a day or two—she should refrain from the acts which are forbidden on a ÎÁÞià and should perform the acts which are obligatory on a mustaÎÁÃah.
If however, the habitual duration of her relatives is more than seven days—for example, nine days—she should consider it to be Îayà for six or seven days. Obligatory precaution dictates that for the days between the habitual duration of her relatives and six or seven days—which is two or three days—she should refrain from the acts which are prohibited on a ÎÁÞià and perform the acts which are obligatory on a mustaÎÁÃah.
501. If a muÃÔaribah observes blood for more than ten days, which possesses the qualities of Îayà on some days and istiÎÁÃah on others, then the blood possessing the qualities of Îayà will all be considered as Îayà if it is not discharged for less than three days or more than ten days. If it is not possible to consider all of the blood that possesses the qualities of Îayà as Îay×for example, she observes blood with the qualities of Îayà for five days, and istiÎÁÃah for five days, and Îayà once again for another five days—then if it is possible to consider each of the discharges with the qualities of Îayà as Îay×in that each of them is not less than three days or more than ten days—she should combine the prohibitions of a ÎÁÞià and the obligations of a mustaÎÁÃah in both the discharges. As for the discharge between the two, which does not possess the qualities of ÎayÃ, she should consider it as mustaÎÁÃah. If it is only possible to consider one of the discharges as ÎayÃ, then she should consider it as ÎayÃ, and the rest as istiÎÁÃah.
