How can one return to prayer and repentance after being afflicted by despair and feeling that his prayers are hypocritical and unacceptable, and that he is among the people of Hell, despite his attempts to seek forgiveness and remember God?
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You must resist these whispers and turn away from them, and proceed with prayer and worship without paying attention to them, and ask Allah to remove them from you, while striving for humility and contemplating the verses.
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