Treating Shyness About Attending Lessons and Lectures

Question:
Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: I am a young man suffering from a problem that has caused me much distress, which is that I am very shy about attending lectures and lessons, as well as entering the mosque and some gatherings. I ask you for a solution to this problem.

Answer:
This is a psychological illness, but you must do two things. The first is to resolve to enter the mosque and attend the lectures, and do not yield to this obsessive thought, because if you yield to it, it will increase. So fight it, fight it, and attend the mosque, attend the lessons. You may find it difficult at first, but with repetition, this will go away, with the permission of Allah. The second thing is that you must remember Allah and increase in supplication and your daily recitations, for the remembrance of Allah is a fortress for the Muslim against Satan. So increase in the remembrance of Allah, and in supplication and recitation in the morning and evening, and Allah will remove from you what you are experiencing, if Allah wills. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you,