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Is a man's intercourse with his wife, while he is reviling God, considered fornication, and does it differ from fornication with a strange woman, especially if he believes that his act is permissible? What is the ruling on a husband returning to his revocably divorced wife by saying, "You are my wife," without the wife's knowledge of the divorce? If a man divorces his wife while ignorant of the rulings of divorce, then has intercourse with her while she is in her 'iddah and revocably divorced, does she return to him without his knowledge? Will a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder enter Paradise despite committing some forbidden acts like watching movies and TV series and smoking? Is a person who commits one of the nullifiers of Islam due to obsessive-compulsive disorder ruled to be an infidel? What is the meaning of "if a person does not bring on intrusive thoughts through an act of disobedience, then there is no blame on him," and will a person be held accountable if intrusive thoughts come to him due to a forbidden act that does not expel him from the faith?

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There is a difference between an adulterer and someone who cohabits with a woman he believes to be his wife. The preponderant opinion is that reconciliation (raj'ah) during the waiting period ('iddah) simply by intercourse is the view of the Hanafis. However, the most important thing for the questioner is to ease his own mind and turn away from obsessive thoughts (waswas), which are a severe illness. A person afflicted by waswas is not judged to have apostatized or to have divorced as long as that is due to the effect of the waswas. Moreover, whoever's Islam has been established with certainty, his Islam does not cease due to doubt, and not everyone who commits an act of disbelief actually becomes a disbeliever.

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