Is there a cure for intrusive thoughts?
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Question:
This is Umm Abdullah from al-Qawiyiyyah, saying: I hope the Shaykh will answer my question. The questioner says: Your Eminence, my mind is constantly occupied with thoughts about religion. I am in a whirlwind of thoughts and intrusive thoughts that I try to resist, and they cause me headaches because I try to push them away, but they return again. I feel hardness in my heart when I try to convince myself. I want, Your Eminence, to feel faith in my heart, and I want my heart to soften and become humble, but I do not feel any of that at all, and then I return to hardness. Is that due to the multitude of sins and transgressions, or is it due to a specific sin I committed? What should I do, Your Eminence?
Guide us, may you be rewarded.
Answer:
I hope this is due to your eagerness for good and your desire for good. But Satan, the enemy of Allah, confuses you and harms you. So we advise you to seek refuge in Allah from Satan, and be glad of good news. This indicates a desire for religion and love for religion. Be glad of good news. Seek refuge in Allah from Satan when the intrusive thoughts occur. Say: "I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan. O Allah, rectify my heart. O Allah, remove its hardness. O Allah, fill it with Your fear, Your love, reliance upon You, and longing to meet You. O Allah, protect me from Satan." Be glad of good news, be glad of good news. The intrusive thoughts will disappear. Seek refuge in Allah from Satan, have good opinion of Allah, and ask Allah to help you against your enemy, Satan, and that Allah will rectify your heart, grant it His fear, desire for what is with Him, soften it, and remove its hardness. Be glad of good news. You must ask Allah and supplicate to Him, the Exalted, asking Him to help you in His remembrance and gratitude, to remove the hardness of your heart, to fill it with mindfulness of Allah and fear of Allah, and the exaltation of Allah, and to protect you from the accursed Satan and his whispers. Be glad of good news. All of this, if Allah wills, indicates good. But seek refuge in Allah from Satan, and be glad of good news. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, for this blessed guidance.
This is Umm Abdullah from al-Qawiyiyyah, saying: I hope the Shaykh will answer my question. The questioner says: Your Eminence, my mind is constantly occupied with thoughts about religion. I am in a whirlwind of thoughts and intrusive thoughts that I try to resist, and they cause me headaches because I try to push them away, but they return again. I feel hardness in my heart when I try to convince myself. I want, Your Eminence, to feel faith in my heart, and I want my heart to soften and become humble, but I do not feel any of that at all, and then I return to hardness. Is that due to the multitude of sins and transgressions, or is it due to a specific sin I committed? What should I do, Your Eminence?
Guide us, may you be rewarded.
Answer:
I hope this is due to your eagerness for good and your desire for good. But Satan, the enemy of Allah, confuses you and harms you. So we advise you to seek refuge in Allah from Satan, and be glad of good news. This indicates a desire for religion and love for religion. Be glad of good news. Seek refuge in Allah from Satan when the intrusive thoughts occur. Say: "I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan. O Allah, rectify my heart. O Allah, remove its hardness. O Allah, fill it with Your fear, Your love, reliance upon You, and longing to meet You. O Allah, protect me from Satan." Be glad of good news, be glad of good news. The intrusive thoughts will disappear. Seek refuge in Allah from Satan, have good opinion of Allah, and ask Allah to help you against your enemy, Satan, and that Allah will rectify your heart, grant it His fear, desire for what is with Him, soften it, and remove its hardness. Be glad of good news. You must ask Allah and supplicate to Him, the Exalted, asking Him to help you in His remembrance and gratitude, to remove the hardness of your heart, to fill it with mindfulness of Allah and fear of Allah, and the exaltation of Allah, and to protect you from the accursed Satan and his whispers. Be glad of good news. All of this, if Allah wills, indicates good. But seek refuge in Allah from Satan, and be glad of good news. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, for this blessed guidance.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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