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Is a lack of trust in religion and obsessive religious doubts considered a form of obsessive whisperings (waswasah), and is avoiding reading incorrect things about religion the right course of action?

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It is essential for the person experiencing waswasah (whisperings/obsessive thoughts) to ignore the causes of these whisperings and to stop thinking about them in order to achieve healing. The questioner was right in not reading erroneous materials about religion. Her feeling of not being confident in religion is merely waswasah and not true doubt, and the sign of this is her dislike and aversion to these thoughts.

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