Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh

 

In the Name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Mercy-Giving

  

All praise is due to Allah. Peace and blessings be upon His Messenger Muhammad.

 

You are perfectly allowed to resume Itikaf after the expiry of your menses.

As for your concern over the fact that your menses interferes with your plan for

I’tikaf, you should remember the words of the Prophet peace e upon him,

Menses is something that Allah ordained for the daughters of Adam.” (Muslim)

So since Allah is All-Merciful, He would not deprive them of any of the blessings

they would miss because of that, for a person is rewarded for his or her

ntentions.

In other words, since you had the intention of spending the entire ten days in

I’tikaf, but you could not do it because of menses, you can rest assured that you

would be rewarded for your intention. The same is the case with a person who

intended to wake up for Tahajjud but could not do so because of extreme

exhaustion and oversleep; the person still gets the reward for his intention.

Furthermore, even if you are not sitting in I’tikaf because of menses, you can still

attain rewards for other spiritual works such as dhikr, supplications, charities, etc.

 

Almighty Allah knows best.