What is the ruling on a girl's feeling that Allah does not accept her prayers, fasting, or recitation of the Qur'an due to her committing sins, her suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in prayer, ablution, and Qur'an recitation, and her doubt regarding her ritual purity, and is it permissible for her to complete a full recitation of the Qur'an by interpreting it page by page and listening to the interpretation from a sheikh?
It is clear that the questioner is afflicted with waswasa (whisperings/obsessive thoughts). She is advised to ignore and disregard them, and to continue with her acts of worship such as prayer, ablution, and recitation, without interrupting them due to doubts about purity. Her feeling that her acts of worship are not accepted is from the whisperings of Satan, and she must repel this by having a good opinion of Allah and sincere repentance from sins, for Allah accepts repentance from His servants. There is no harm for her in completing the Quran in the manner mentioned or in reciting without understanding some of the meanings.
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