Summarized Fatawaa
• What is the ruling when the monthly period exceeds (15) days ?
Mostly, menses last (15) days, and more than that is Istihadah(bleeding outside the time of monthly period). Thus, a woman should perform Ghusl(ritual bath) to purify herself from menses, pray, and make ablution for every prayer when its time is due. She should also consider her regular menses in terms of time and duration. So, if she knows her regular periods, then she should count the days of bleeding during this period as menses, and after those days, she is considered as having Istihaadhah. For example, if her period extends from the 20th till the 27th of every month, then this is her menses, and whatever before or after that is Istihadah. Therefore, she is prevented from prayer and fast during her menses, but when it ends , she is at liberty to perform Ghusl and pray.
• What should the man, whose wife wasn`t on good terms with his mother, do?
Both the mother and the wife have rights on the man in question; therefore, each should be given her rights justly, and he should resort to wisdom to please both of them and make reconciliation.
• What is the ruling on making up for missed fasting after the second half of Sha`ban(the month before Ramadhaan)?
One is obliged to make up for missed fasting before the start of next Ramadhaan, and regardless of offering it during the first, or the second half of Shab`an. This is because the prohibition mentioned in the Hadith is for offering absolute voluntary fasting in the second half of Sha`ban.
• What is the best charity to offer on behalf of the deceased?
Is it giving food, reciting Quran, giving money or supplicating?
What is the best charity to offer on behalf of dead father and dead husband? What is the best continuous charity to offer on behalf of the deceased?
Praise be to Allah the Lord of the Worlds.
The deceased benefits from every righteous deed offered on his/her behalf, be that continuous charity, reciting Quran or a pious son praying for him/her. However, the best righteous deed is performing Haj and Omrah on their behalf especially if he/she hadn`t performed that ritual for it remains a debt on them. The evidence on this is that Ibn 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) reported: A man came to the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) and said: "Messenger of Allah, my mother has died (in a state) that she had to observe fasts of a month (of Ramadan). Should I complete (them) on her behalf? Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Would you not pay the debt if your mother had died (without paying it)? He said: Yes. He (the Holy Prophet) said: The debt of Allah deserves more that it should be paid."{Related by Muslim}. And Allah the Almighty knows best.