{"id":20080,"date":"2023-03-06T05:55:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T03:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=20080"},"modified":"2023-03-07T05:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:57:33","slug":"remedy-for-doubts-and-stray-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=20080","title":{"rendered":"Remedy for Doubts and Stray Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned the following advice in a letter he wrote to a certain person who was suffering from doubts and stray thoughts and was also contemplating suicide:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An effective remedy for dealing with doubts and stray thoughts is for one to ignore the doubts and stray thoughts and not pay any attention to them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Furthermore, one should recite \u2018Laa howla walaa quwwata illaa billaah\u2019 forty-one times after every fardh salaah, together with reciting durood shareef before and after.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am disappointed and grieved that an intelligent person such as yourself has been getting thoughts regarding committing suicide. To even contemplate suicide is a sin, hence you should not even think about it. May Allah Ta\u2018ala bless you with aafiyah (ease).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(Qutbul Aqtaab Hazrat Shaikhul Hadith Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya [rahmatullahi \u2018alaih] pg. 427)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=16275\">Ihyaauddeen.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sayings-of-the-pious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20081,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080\/revisions\/20081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}