Lesson 3 of 6
The debt you think you are carrying
A very large number of Muslim women come out of the first forty days believing they owe something. Prayers stacked up. A Ramadan half kept. A sense of having been shut out of the one thing that would have helped.
Listen to how it usually gets said. I was not allowed to pray. That is a sentence about a punishment. What actually happened was that an obligation was lifted off you by a ruling, in your favour, because of the state you were in.
This lesson is the fiqh, as plainly as it can be put. Where the scholars agree, it says so. Where they genuinely differ, it says that too and does not pick for you, because this is not a fatwa service.