Sprinkling water on trousers to treat obsessive doubts
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is there a report from Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him) that if a person is afflicted with obsessive doubts regarding the discharge from his body, the treatment is to sprinkle water on his trousers after he has relieved himself?
Answer:
Specifically from Imam Ahmad, I do not know. But yes, they say so. Some of the scholars we have encountered say so. They say: If a person is afflicted with obsessive doubts and he believes that something is coming out of him, he should sprinkle water on his trousers so that this thing is removed from him. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is there a report from Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him) that if a person is afflicted with obsessive doubts regarding the discharge from his body, the treatment is to sprinkle water on his trousers after he has relieved himself?
Answer:
Specifically from Imam Ahmad, I do not know. But yes, they say so. Some of the scholars we have encountered say so. They say: If a person is afflicted with obsessive doubts and he believes that something is coming out of him, he should sprinkle water on his trousers so that this thing is removed from him. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، تتمة فصل ومن كيده الذي بلغ به من الجهال ما بلغ : الوسواس — islamhouse.com (52:43)
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