Treatment of Obsessive Thoughts

The questioner:
In the Shaykh’s life, there is a man who brings texts for everything. In his life, in matters of his religion and in the affairs of his daily life. Sometimes he doubts his Islam and his religion. Sometimes he says to him that he falls into this period. He hardly spends a day in a period of laughter without his chest becoming narrow because of it. His chest becomes narrow because of it. So he asked one of the places, and he said: If she is saying, or if she is certain. He says to her: The waswas (whispers) will go away and return, or it will be countered. So he continued to believe in this waswas, so he went to take it from him, but this waswas remained, and what is the ruin from this?

The Shaykh:
No, just the head. There is no doubt that it is an illness. It is an illness. And it is annoying, and it has become common now among young men and women. But its treatment is as the Shaykh who was asked mentioned: its treatment is that he seeks refuge in Allah the Mighty and Majestic from Shaytan, because waswas is from Shaytan. Allah the Exalted said: . Al-waswas with a fathah on the waw is Shaytan, whereas al-waswas with a kasrah is the whispering. The text describes Shaytan as a whisperer who retreats. A whisperer who retreats means that when a person is negligent of the remembrance of Allah, he whispers to him, and when he remembers Allah, he retreats from him and moves away from him. So, may Allah curse him, he is a whisperer when one is negligent of the remembrance of Allah, and a retreater when one remembers Allah the Mighty and Majestic. So the one afflicted with waswas should increase in the remembrance of Allah, in tasbih, tahlil, takbir, and seeking refuge in Allah from the accursed Shaytan. And he should recite the Qur'an, because Shaytan flees from the recitation of the Qur'an. Second, he should not pay attention to the waswas, and he should reject it completely, and never think about it, and never care about it. He should reject it, and by this, Allah Glorified and Exalted is He will grant him relief.
It may be that a person has a psychological illness; it may be that he has a nervous psychological illness. So he should also consult psychiatrists, perhaps he will find a treatment by which he can help himself in defending against this illness. But the first beneficial and effective cause is the remembrance of Allah Glorified and Exalted is He, increasing in the recitation of the Qur'an, rejecting the waswas, and not paying attention to it. Some of the Companions complained to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about some waswas. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) guided them to leave it, and that it does not harm the person. Praise be to Allah, waswas does not harm the person, as long as he did not speak or do anything. It does not harm him, as long as it is merely a thought in the soul, it does not harm him, as he said (peace and blessings be upon him): My community is forgiven for mistakes and forgetfulness or their souls, as long as they do not speak or act. So it does not harm the person, and praise be to Allah. They leave it and it does not manifest in an action. Yes.