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    Question ID: 54074Country: India

    Title: post pregnancy fasting

    Question: I have stopped bleeding after 20 days of my delivery. Should I wait till 40th day or start fasting before that in coming Ramadan? Please advise.

    Answer ID: 54074

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 1049/824/D=09/1435) The maximum period of nifas (postpartum period) which comes after child birth is forty days. It is fardh to make ghusl and start offering salah if the blood stops before forty days. So in the question mentioned above you should not wait till forty days rather you should start offering salah after the blood stops and start keep fast of Ramadan.

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India