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Is it permissible to apply a treatment by a certified coach from the Canadian Institute for Human Development, who specializes in Fiqh and its fundamentals, to a person suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, even though the website's fatwas prohibit human development?

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We have reviewed the mentioned link, which contains steps to help patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and mental illnesses. We found nothing in it that raises suspicion, so there is no harm in seeking treatment through it, provided that the beliefs and methodology of the therapist are confirmed to be sound. We caution that the field of human development contains both valuable and worthless elements. We have prohibited adopting it uncritically due to the inherent danger, but we have permitted benefiting from it after purifying it from the impurities of falsehood and philosophical ideas.

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