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Let us begin. Our first question is from brother Ahmed.

He emails from London and he says that he suffers from O. C. D. and he constantly gets bad thoughts that causes him to feel that

he might have left Islam because of these thoughts that he's getting.

So he constantly renews his Islam by saying the

Shahada and so he's asking for advice about that he's frustrated he's tired and he's

reaching out for help I'll add another question from Sister FISA, also from England, that she's also saying the exact same thing in the terms of that she's suffering from OCD, so I'm going to take both of these questions together,

but her O-C deals with cleanliness, and she's always doubting her will do, her purification.

Even for example, she says she enters the restroom restroom and then she feels that the floor is

unclean so every time she does Woolu then when she walks outside she thinks she

might have touched something on the floor when she's walking out and so how can she pray in this regard and she's worried

about the validity of her Sala. So I'm going to combine both of these questions

because of the similar nature of the concept of OCD and I shall try to give an Islamic

answer. A rusalna mean kobdika I ill arijalan

no he I lah ihim

fas alu alu al-a la dikirim Now of course the main features of these questions are about the obsessive

compulsive disorder O. C. D and for those of you that are unaware for to

summarize O. C. D. is that are unaware, to summarize, OCD is intrusive thoughts, usually relentless.

Sometimes for most of us we would view them as being not normal or not you know

they're not something that we would consider to be rational or they seem to be

just too you know irrational from our perspective.

Again, from the perspective of those who are getting these thoughts,

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