Is a person who falls short in performing duties or obligations, such as omitting a pillar or an obligation in prayer, held accountable for their shortcoming if they ignore it out of fear of Satan's exploitation and dominance, whether or not they suffer from obsessive whispers?
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It is not permissible to be negligent in religious duties for the one afflicted with obsessive doubts (waswasa) or anyone else. If a person is certain that they omitted a pillar (rukn), they must perform it. However, if they doubt whether they omitted a duty (), a distinction is made between the one afflicted with obsessive doubts and others. The one afflicted with obsessive doubts must ignore these doubts, while the one not afflicted with obsessive doubts must perform what they doubt they omitted.
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