Types of Tuhr

1. There are four types of Tuhr. They are:

• Tuhre Taam
• Tuhre Naaqis
• Tuhre Saheeh
• Tuhre Faasid

2. Tuhre Taam is a clean period of at least 15 days.
3. Tuhre Naaqis is a clean period of less than 15 days.
4. Tuhre Saheeh is a clean period in which there is no bleeding, spotting or discharge at all. She remains completely clean during the entire duration of this Tuhr.
5. Tuhre Faasid is a clean state tainted with some bleeding or discharge during it.
6. A Tuhre Taam can be saheeh or faasid.
7. Similarly, a Tuhre Naaqis can be saheeh or faasid.
8. However, the terms saheeh and faasid are generally used in conjunction with a Tuhre Taam.
9. Take the following scenario:

• A woman has a regular cycle of 3 days bleeding.
• In a particular month she bled for 3 days as is her aadat or regular cycle.
• Thereafter she remained completely clean for 15 days.
• She then had a day’s blood.
• This was followed by a day of tuhr, that is she remained clean that day.
• She then had a 3-day bleeding period.
• The first 3 days and the last 3 days in this example are her days of haidh.
• Between these two periods of haidh there is a Tuhre Taam of 17 days, although it is faasid due to a day of bleeding, that is the 16^th
• On this 16^th day, in spite of the bleeding she reads her Salaat, because the bleeding is istihaadhah.
• Her Tuhr of 17 days was Taam, that is complete, and it was also faasid due to the bleeding in it.

10. The above example can be represented as follows:

3B—15C—1B—1C—3B

(B=Bleeding, C=Clean)

(Manhalul Waarideen)