Shaytan sometimes causes believers to doubt their wudoo or the cleanilness of their clothes. Making them to redo their wudoo or to change their clothes thus, making the believer delay his or her prayer and creating low imaan and distress.
This may be dealt with in several ways:
1 – Thinking positively of Allaah, making a great deal of du’aa’, and beseeching Allaah to heal you from this waswaas.
2 – Getting used to ignoring these waswaas and not paying any attention to them. You can put a suitable amount of water in a vessel, and do not make wudoo’ directly from the tap any more; make yourself do wudoo’ from this vessel only. Tell yourself that there is no other water available except what is in this vessel, and make do with what it contains. Do not wash any part of the body more than three times. Even if the Shaytaan tells you that your wudoo’ is not valid, this is just a whisper from the Shaytaan and does not mean anything.
3 – The same applies to brushing your clothes after sitting in a place where someone else has sat. You should ignore this waswaas and force yourself not to brush your clothes. You should train yourself in this manner no matter what the waswaas is.
4 – You should remember the fiqhi principle which is that what is certain cannot be altered by something doubtful. If you are certain of something, you should not pay attention to any doubts after that. If you have done something then do not pay attention to any doubts that come along after doing it. If you have washed your hand, then do not pay any attention to doubts that come, even fleeting doubts, suggesting that you have not washed your hand, as Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:
Doubts after doing something do not matter, otherwise doubts will increase.
You should not pay any attention to doubts that come after completing an act of worship, and even if a man has a lot of doubts he should not pay any attention to them.
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'Whispers from the shaytaan and the remedy for them'
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