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I suffer from obsessive doubts in my ritual purity, prayer, and worship, and I feel that there is no good in me. I ask for your guidance?

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, the questioner says: I am a young man who suffers from obsessive doubts in my ritual purity, prayer, and worship, to the extent that I have started repeating my prayers, I have started doubting what I say in my prayer, and I have started feeling that there is no good in me. I ask for your guidance.

Answer:
The treatment for this is two things. The first is that you should consult a psychiatrist; perhaps you have a psychological illness for which he will find a cure, with Allah’s permission. The second is that you should treat yourself with dhikr (remembrance of Allah), supplications, reliance upon Allah, and leaving the obsessive doubts. Do not act on them, do not pay attention to them, and reject them completely, and may Allah protect you from them. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [144 -308] أعاني من الوسواس في طهارتي وصلاتي وعبادتي وأشعر بأنني لا خير فيّ، أرجو التوجيه منكم؟ — youtube.com

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