Is a woman who committed one of the nullifiers of Islam then returned to it, but now does not pray due to obsessive thoughts about purity, and when she performed ghusl to embrace Islam, she was overly meticulous in istinjaa'; is her Islam considered void and must she re-embrace it? And if so, what should she do to become a Muslim again? And are her actions during her period of apostasy considered imitation of disbelievers?
The most important thing to do is to turn away from obsessive thoughts (waswasah) and seek refuge in Allah. A Muslim's ghusl (ritual bath) for entering Islam is not a condition for the validity of Islam, and if their ritual purity is broken, it does not affect their Islam. The actions that the questioner imagines to be imitation of disbelievers are not so, and have no relation to imitation.
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