What is the ruling on the expiation for an oath (kaffarat al-yamin) for someone who swore not to repeat ablution (wudu') or interrupt prayer due to obsessive thoughts (waswas), and sometimes he fulfills this oath and sometimes he does not, and he does not know the number of times he swore?
The cure for obsessive thoughts is to turn away from them and not pay attention to them. One must strive against the self to abandon them. As for the oaths that were sworn, there is a detailed explanation in Fatwa No.: 120277.
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