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How to cure doubt and obsessive compulsive disorder?

SHAFAQNA – Beware that curing this disease of the heart (doubt and obsessive compulsive disorder) which is feared to destroy the human being for ever and take him/her to adversity, like other diseases of the heart is easy to cure with effective knowledge and actions. But, firstly the human being must consider himself/herself ill and then decides to cure himself/herself. But the difficulty is that, Satan deceives such a person in a way that he/she does not consider himself/herself ill; rather considers others to be astray from the right path and not following the religion! But the scientific way, then thinking and reflecting, it is better that the human being’s deeds are based on thinking and reflecting.

The person who wants to do a task must consider that God is also satisfied with that task; from whom and where to take it from, in order that its quality is this and that. It is clear that the general public find out about the quality of the deed from religious scholars and their books. So, when we refer to the books of the religious scholars, the obsessive compulsive action/deed is rejected and some of the deeds by such person are declared as void (Batel); and when we refer to noble narrations and Divine Book (the Quran), we see that such deeds are considered to be from Satan and the wisdom of such person has been taken away. Therefore, in this situation, if Satan has not dominated the wisdom, the wise person think and reflect awhile, and must make a firm decision to avoid such corrupt action, and make sure to rectify his/her (wrong) deed for the satisfaction of God [1].

[1] Sharhe Chehel Hadith, Imam Khomeini (RA), Page 405.

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