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What is the way to help a sister who is suffering from psychological problems due to her upbringing, her love for tight clothing, her taking of sleeping pills, her attempts to commit suicide, her relationship with a foreign man, her refusal to live with her family, and her insistence that she cannot stop wearing tight clothing and observe hijab?

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Deliberation and wisdom are required in dealing with the matter of the girl who is going through a bad psychological state. This is done by supplicating for her abundantly for guidance, righteousness, and healing, and reminding her that life is a house of trials, and that a believer endures trials to attain the good of this world and the Hereafter, while mentioning the virtues of patience to her. The questioner has done well by controlling herself and not blaming her sister, and by advising her to repent from her relationship with the young man and from attempting suicide, reminding her that in suicide there is loss in this world and the Hereafter. Her family should not be informed of what the sister has done, but her guardian should be advised to take her hand and be firm with her, and to treat her with mental health specialists, and to perform (Islamic exorcism) on her with legal Ruqyah. The young man can be informed to ask for her hand in marriage from her guardian if he is willing, provided that he is a Muslim.

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