Guidance for one afflicted with intrusive thoughts regarding ritual purity
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Question:
Our brother says: When he performs wudu, he feels as if he has incontinence and feels drops of water. How do you advise him and those like him, Shaykh Abdul Aziz, if you please?
Answer:
Many people may be afflicted with this due to intrusive thoughts rather than reality. My advice to him and those like him is not to pay attention to this matter, and to disregard it as long as he has any doubt, even if it is slight, even one percent, even one percent that nothing has come out of him, he should not pay attention to it; because paying attention to it leads to continuous intrusive thoughts. He should disregard it.
However, if he is certain and one hundred percent sure that something has come out of him, then he must perform istinja, repeat the istinja and the lawful wudu, and he must not pray if urine has come out of him, provided it is one hundred percent certainty.
It is recommended for him to sprinkle water on the area of the private parts after he finishes the wudu, sprinkling it with water so that it carries away any intrusive thoughts he may have regarding this matter, and by this the intrusive thoughts will end and cease, if Allah wills. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
Our brother says: When he performs wudu, he feels as if he has incontinence and feels drops of water. How do you advise him and those like him, Shaykh Abdul Aziz, if you please?
Answer:
Many people may be afflicted with this due to intrusive thoughts rather than reality. My advice to him and those like him is not to pay attention to this matter, and to disregard it as long as he has any doubt, even if it is slight, even one percent, even one percent that nothing has come out of him, he should not pay attention to it; because paying attention to it leads to continuous intrusive thoughts. He should disregard it.
However, if he is certain and one hundred percent sure that something has come out of him, then he must perform istinja, repeat the istinja and the lawful wudu, and he must not pray if urine has come out of him, provided it is one hundred percent certainty.
It is recommended for him to sprinkle water on the area of the private parts after he finishes the wudu, sprinkling it with water so that it carries away any intrusive thoughts he may have regarding this matter, and by this the intrusive thoughts will end and cease, if Allah wills. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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