What is required of one who stopped praying for less than a year due to scrupulosity in prayer and ablution?
Abandoning prayer is a great sin, and obsessive thoughts are not an excuse for abandoning it. The cure for obsessive thoughts is to ignore and disregard them. One must engage in sincere repentance and exert effort to get rid of obsessive thoughts, and to maintain prayer at its appointed times. As for past missed prayers, there is a difference of opinion regarding the obligation to make them up. One who suffers from obsessive thoughts may adopt the view of those who do not obligate making them up, while frequently seeking forgiveness and repenting, performing supererogatory prayers, and striving to recover from the obsessive thoughts.
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