Is a person considered an infidel if they stop praying due to the difficulty of repeated ritual bathing (ghusl) from major ritual impurity (janabah), taking into account the saying of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: "The covenant between us and them is prayer, so whoever abandons it has disbelieved"?
The questioner suffers from waswasa (obsessive whispering) concerning janaba (major ritual impurity), as it is not natural for janaba to occur all the time. Janaba results from sexual intercourse or the emission of semen due to a wet dream or masturbation. Not everything that exits the private parts is semen that necessitates ghusl (ritual bathing); it could be madhy (pre-seminal fluid) or wady (a thick white discharge). Her abandonment of prayer is a result of Satan toying with her. Waswasa concerning purity is one of Satan's steps to entice a servant into finding worship burdensome, and then abandoning it. Abandoning prayer is disbelief (kufr), and she must repent and return to prayer immediately.
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