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Is what the questioner is suffering from—detailed doubts about Sharia rulings, questioning religious axioms, and attempting to follow dispensations and anomalous opinions—an obsessive-compulsive disorder or a doubt that leads one out of the fold of Islam? And what is the appropriate Sharia-based and psychological treatment for this condition?

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The message addresses the problem of waswasa (whisperings/obsessive thoughts) through advice aimed at strengthening certainty and seeking knowledge, increasing istighfar (seeking forgiveness) and seeking refuge from shirk (polytheism), and utilizing prophetic supplications for protection from the self and Satan, while emphasizing turning away from waswasa and resorting to Almighty Allah.

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