I suffer from obsessive thoughts during wudu' and prayer, so one of the shaykhs told me: Do not pay attention to that!

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I suffer from severe obsessive thoughts during wudu' and during prayer. For example, when I am washing my face during wudu' and move on to the next part, I forget that I have already washed my face, and I am forced to repeat the wudu'. I have come to suffer greatly. One of the shaykhs told me not to pay attention to it, but when I do this and do not pay attention to it, I feel tightness in my chest and a rebuke from my conscience, and that I am falling short in the right of Allah, and I fear His punishment. What should I do? May Allah grant you success.

Answer:
This is the truth and the correct path, what this Shaykh told you. Leave the obsessive thoughts and the tightness in the chest, and leave that, even if it tightens your chest at first. This will go away, if Allah wills. Do not pay attention to the obsessive thoughts. Yes. And Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon