The Ruling on Repeating Istinja' Due to Obsessive Doubts
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I have a question: When I get up after relieving myself, specifically urination, I feel drops coming out of the urethra, and this happens constantly. So I tell myself that this is a trick of Satan, and I condition myself to perform istinja' (cleaning oneself after relieving oneself) again. Is that permissible for me?
Answer:
If this is waswas (obsessive doubts), then yes. But if it is a reality, then one must deal with it. As for if it is waswas, leave it. However, I advise you not to rush. If you do not rush, it will remove the waswas from you, by the permission of Allah, until the outlet is clear. It clears the outlet. Do not rush with the wudu' (ablution for prayer) until the outlet is clear and you are certain of that. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I have a question: When I get up after relieving myself, specifically urination, I feel drops coming out of the urethra, and this happens constantly. So I tell myself that this is a trick of Satan, and I condition myself to perform istinja' (cleaning oneself after relieving oneself) again. Is that permissible for me?
Answer:
If this is waswas (obsessive doubts), then yes. But if it is a reality, then one must deal with it. As for if it is waswas, leave it. However, I advise you not to rush. If you do not rush, it will remove the waswas from you, by the permission of Allah, until the outlet is clear. It clears the outlet. Do not rush with the wudu' (ablution for prayer) until the outlet is clear and you are certain of that. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/9 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (6:27)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.