The Ruling on Obsessions and Doubts in Prayer and Ablution

Question:
My sister, Fa'eyn, sent a written question about her condition. She says: Honorable Shaykh Salih, may Allah keep you safe, peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you. I have this question and hope for an answer. I am prone to many obsessions and doubts in prayer. I repeat the actions many times for a long time because I do not feel that I intended to enter the prayer or begin it. Also, during the prayer, I feel the intention to break it, and this happens in every prayer. The question remains: Is it obligatory for me to intend to enter the prayer? If I do not feel the intention to enter, what should I do? If I feel the intention to break the prayer during it, should I break it? Also, regarding doubts in ablution, I ask for your guidance, direction, and supplication for me.

Answer:
It is obligatory to abandon obsessions and not to pay attention to them. When you are present with the water and sit for ablution, you have intended it; this action indicates the intention. Likewise, if you stand up for prayer and stand, that is evidence of the intention to pray. And when you say the takbir, there should be no doubt in your mind that it is an incorrect takbir, or that the takbir was not completed, or the like of this. Close this door and proceed with your purity, your prayer, your acts of worship, and all your affairs, and do not pay attention to doubts and illusions.