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"The reciting of the Qur'aan by a menstruating woman either via direct looking or silently (in her heart) without the actual uttering by the tongue is permissble.  The majority of the scholars are with the opinion that it is prohibited for her to utter the Qur'aan recitation.  Imaam Al-Bukharee, Ibn Jabeer At-Tabaree, Ibn Al-Monthir, Imaam Maalik, and Imaam Ash-Shaafi'ee (in one of his earlier sayings) are with the opinion that it is permissible for her to recite the Ayah."

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"Basically, there is no Sunnah to prevent her from reciting Qur'aan.  The "hadeeth" that: "A menstruating woman and the one who is in state of Jannabah should not recite anything from the Qur'aan", is a weak hadeeth as agreed upon by the knowledgeable scholars of Hadeeth.   In fact, women at the time of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa salam used to have their monthly cycles of menses.  Had the recitation of the Qur'aan been prohibited for them (as it is the case with Salat) then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa salam would have made it clear to his Ummah and his wives would have known about it and they would have disseminated this knowledge to the people.  Because no one had related a prohibition by the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa salam about this issue, then it can not be made unlawful especially when it is known that he did not prohibit it at the time when menses was very much present.  Accordingly, recitation by the tongue is not Haram" Ibn Taimiyyah in Al-Fatawa  V. 26, P. 191

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Having known the dispute between the scholars about this matter, then it is more proper for the menstruating woman not to recite Qur'aan by the tongue except when it is necessary e.g. if she is a teacher or if she is preparing for an exam"