Are sexual fantasies resulting from mental illness and high hormone levels considered a "defamation of chaste believing women," and is it necessary to confess this to them?
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There is no sin upon a mentally ill person from whom involuntary statements are uttered or who is overcome by thoughts he cannot repel, because he is not acting by choice and is not of sound mind. A Muslim must conceal his own faults and not reveal what emanates from him.
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