Treating Obsessions and Seeking Refuge from Satan

Question:
This is, my brothers, Your Eminence the Shaykh (may Allah preserve him), peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings. After invoking Allah, we ask Allah the Exalted to grant you the best reward for your service to the people and the Muslims. Your Eminence the Shaykh, one who discovers psychological illness, anxiety, and tightness of the chest, and interacts with the Qur’an with words that are not legitimate, but the condition returns between intervals. Since I am giving a lecture in the mosque today, I hope you will find that it is repeated in advising and guiding her in a way that benefits her, if Allah wills, just as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took charge of healing and action. Establish the presence of the attendees on the attendees regarding its narration, perhaps Allah will guide her, since she is a righteous woman, a preserver of her religion and her husband’s rights, and a lover of good, who enjoins what is right and forbids what is wrong. Peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.

Answer:
And as for the Sunnah. As for loving for the sake of Allah, we have previously stated that one should say, "May Allah love you, just as you love for the sake of Allah." Thus, mutual love for the sake of Allah is among the best forms of worship. As for your wife, and that she is afflicted with some of the obsessions and illnesses that befall her, we ask Allah for her healing. We ask Allah to heal her, and every Muslim man and woman. We ask Allah to heal your wife and every Muslim man and woman from every trial. And we ask Allah to protect everyone from the whispers of Satan, and from religious innovations and desires. It is obligatory for every Muslim to be wary of obsessions, and it is obligatory for every Muslim to be wary of obsessions. Satan is eager to mislead the children of Adam. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says: And his party, so that he may be among the errors of the fasting person. So he has many obsessions in prayer, in ablution, and in the full ritual bath. Therefore, it is obligatory for men and women to be wary of obsessions. And when an obsession occurs, he says, "I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan," and he performs ablution as Allah has commanded him. He prays as Allah has commanded him. He fasts as Allah has commanded him. And he is wary of obsessions. And when something occurs to him, he says, "I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan," "I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan," he repeats it, and he is strong against the enemy of Allah. This is how the believer must act. And he must not submit to the obsessions, neither in ablution, nor in prayer, nor in anything else, nor during prayer. He says the takbir as Allah has commanded. He performs ablution as Allah has commanded. And he does not mind the obsessions. He is wary of them, and he stays away from them. And when something passes by him, when something occurs to him, he says, "I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan." This is how the believer and the believing woman must act. She seeks refuge in Allah from Satan, and is wary of obsessions, for he is the enemy of Allah, an enemy to you, and an enemy to your wife, and an enemy to every one of the Muslims. So it is obligatory to be wary of him, and that is by seeking refuge in Allah from Satan, as the Exalted said: And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded that. He said: If one of you sees something he dislikes, let him seek refuge in Allah from Satan, and even if he prostrates three times. If he sees something he dislikes in his dream, he wakes up, spits to his left , then turns over to his other side, for it will not harm him. So he does not tell anyone about it. And when the Companions also complained that obsessions increased for him in prayer, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: Get up and spit , so that it may go away from you. The Companion said: So I did that, and Allah removed it from me. So it is obligatory for the believer and the believing woman to seek refuge in Allah from Satan when obsessions occur in prayer, or in ablution, or in the full ritual bath, or in anything else, sincerely. He seeks refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan sincerely. And by that, Allah will grant him well-being. He recites the seeking of refuge in Allah three times. He says, "I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan" three times, sincerely, and by Allah, that is sufficient against his evil.