{"id":20536,"date":"2023-03-06T18:10:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=20536"},"modified":"2023-03-06T18:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:10:57","slug":"remedy-for-doubts-and-stray-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=20536","title":{"rendered":"Remedy for Doubts and Stray Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19586\" src=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pathway1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pathway1.webp 600w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pathway1-190x127.webp 190w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pathway1-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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>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>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>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>(Qutbul Aqtaab Hazrat Sheikhul Hadith Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) pg. 427)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: An effective remedy for dealing with doubts and stray thoughts is for one to ignore the doubts and stray thoughts and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-hadhrat-shaikh-rahmatullahi-alaihi","category-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20539,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20536\/revisions\/20539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}