What is the solution to help a young man in his twenties who compulsively practices masturbation, which has negatively affected his studies, work, and social life, and has led him into bouts of depression and despair, and pushed him to contemplate suicide, despite his family's repeated attempts to help him in every possible way?
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Committing forbidden acts and persisting in them are reasons for being deprived of attaining what is desired and for calamities to descend, just as turning away from the remembrance of Allah is a cause for a miserable life. A person may be deprived of sustenance due to a sin they commit. Therefore, the brother should repent, increase in the remembrance of Allah and seeking forgiveness, and supplicate for him, for supplication is answered.
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