“I suffer from a problem of waswaas in ablution and repeating it several times, as well as praying with waswaas in thinking.”

We transferred the question to Dr. Jamal Froiz, a consultant psychiatrist, who explained that there are several types of ablution’s obsessions, and each type has its causes. There is “personal waswas” that may appear before the age of 14, but becomes clearer after that, and it comes as a result of a person’s keenness to adhere to religious rules in an appropriate way. Very sound, the fear of making a mistake makes him repeat ablution many times even if he is doing it 100% correctly.

In this case, this person needs behavioral treatment only, by supporting self-confidence and not criticizing, underestimating or ignoring what he is doing by those around him, especially if he is at a young age.

As for obsessive-compulsive disorder, which means that the obsessive-compulsive disorder is caused by obsessive-compulsive disorder, which appears after the age of 15 years as a result of exposure to stress, which makes this person practice his worship while feeling sad and shortened all the time, and in this case he needs a drug treatment by consulting a specialist doctor, and he emphasized It is necessary not to pressure him and not to accuse him of lack of faith or lack of religiosity, because in both cases the person with obsessive disorder needs support in order to overcome this crisis.

As for the religious aspect

The Dar al-Iftaa responded to the question that the questioner, in this case, has to put the doubt aside. He performs his prayer based on the least certain number of rak’ahs if he is in doubt about the number of rak’ahs, then he prostrates for forgetfulness at the end of the prayer. The basic principle is that he remains as he is of purity as long as he is not certain that his ablution will be broken, and he must not pay attention to waswas, because it is the work of Satan who wants to spoil his worship and keep him away from the path of good.

As for doubt in terms of ablution and his feeling that something has come out of the two paths, and that was a matter of definiteness and certainty, he must repeat his ablution, and he does not pray unless he performs ablution.