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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Advice for the one whose chest is constricted by leading people in prayer

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Question:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. After this, a message from Yanbu', and its sender is a listener who indicated his name with the letters 'ayn and sad. He says: I was an imam in one of the mosques, but now I have become unable to lead people in prayer. That is because when I lead people in prayer, I feel a great deal of shyness, which makes me stammer, and I am unable to recite, and I am unable to face the people. I also feel psychological distress and depression, and I have come to hate life. Please advise me on what I should do? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
You must increase in the remembrance of Allah and the recitation of the Qur'an, in the morning and in the evening, and seek refuge in Allah from Shaytan. Treat yourself with the Qur'an and the Prophetic dhikr, and in that is healing, if Allah wills. If Allah wills. You must also try to mix with good people, keep the company of your good brothers, and try to perform the imamah. This will be removed from you, if Allah wills, because this appears to be a psychological illness, and it is also from Shaytan. So if you treat it with the remembrance of Allah the Exalted, and treat it also by not paying attention to it and not being affected by it, it will be removed by the permission of Allah. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4361- نصيحة لمن يضيق صدره بإمامة الناس - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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