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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is the one who is afflicted with intrusive thoughts that cast doubt on his religion, while he believes in Allah and is diligent in his acts of obedience, sinful?

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Question:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. A woman who loves Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and believes in that with the strongest faith, and avoids sins as much as she can, and weeps when she remembers Allah the Exalted, and performs the prayer at its times, says: But, Honorable Shaykh, doubt always comes to her regarding some matters that are certain, and she is always afraid of death and does not love it. She weeps a lot, hoping that Allah will remove this from her heart and that she will love meeting Allah. She supplicates a lot, a lot, that Allah keep this doubt away from her, but it is still in her soul. Does this indicate that Allah is not pleased with her? And what should she do to reach the truth of certainty? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
As for her loving Allah and His Messenger, that is a sign of good. Likewise, her maintaining the performance of the obligatory duties is the obligatory, and this is good, and praise be to Allah. As for the doubts and intrusive thoughts that afflict her, which she did not speak about, but are merely intrusive thoughts in her mind, they do not affect her, and she should not worry about them; because they are intrusive thoughts from Satan. She should seek refuge in Allah from Satan, and not speak about them.
As for her disliking death, this is something natural for the children of Adam, and there is no blame on her for that; because it is something natural.
O Allah! Keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and let me die if death is better for me.اللَّهُمَّ أَحْيِنِي مَا كَانَتِ الْحَيَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي وَتَوَفَّنِي إِذَا كَانَتِ الْوَفَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي
Sahih al-Bukhari 5671
, thereby entrusting the matter to Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يأثم من طرأت عليه وساوس تشكك في دينه، وهو مؤمن بالله ومحافظ على الطاعات؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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