What is your advice and guidance to one who is assailed by the feeling that what he is certain is lawful is in fact polytheism (shirk) and sorcery (kahanah), and is he considered a major polytheist (mushrik shirk akbar) and outside the fold of Islam due to this feeling?
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What has been mentioned are mere whispers (), which must be ignored, because persisting in them has dire consequences. Among what helps in getting rid of them is seeking Allah's help, sincerely turning to Him, and supplicating frequently.
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