What is the advice for one who is afflicted with the secret habit and is nearly killing himself because of it?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I am afflicted with addiction to the secret habit, and he says: I am nearly killing myself because of it. He asks: What do you advise him? Then he asks you to make du'a' for him so that he may be rid of this matter.
Answer:
Yes, this is a plague. He must avoid it and resolve, he must resolve to do so, to leave it and forget it little by little. And if he seeks help against his desire through fasting, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) guided, he fasts. And before all of that, if he is able to marry, he marries. He marries. If he is not able to marry, let him be patient.[An-Nur 24:33]. The secret habit is not permissible for him; it is haram.
And persisting in it is more severe. Also, in addition to it being haram, it has medical harm, as the jurists and doctors mentioned, as the doctors mentioned that it has health harm. So he must avoid it and beware of it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I am afflicted with addiction to the secret habit, and he says: I am nearly killing myself because of it. He asks: What do you advise him? Then he asks you to make du'a' for him so that he may be rid of this matter.
Answer:
Yes, this is a plague. He must avoid it and resolve, he must resolve to do so, to leave it and forget it little by little. And if he seeks help against his desire through fasting, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) guided, he fasts. And before all of that, if he is able to marry, he marries. He marries. If he is not able to marry, let him be patient.
But let them who find not [the means for] marriage abstain [from sexual relations] until Allah enriches them from His bounty.
وَلْيَسْتَعْفِفِ الَّذِينَ لَا يَجِدُونَ نِكَاحًا حَتَّىٰ يُغْنِيَهُمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِAnd persisting in it is more severe. Also, in addition to it being haram, it has medical harm, as the jurists and doctors mentioned, as the doctors mentioned that it has health harm. So he must avoid it and beware of it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [195 -582] ما النصيحة لمن ابتلي بالعادة السرية ويكاد يقتل نفسه بسببها؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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