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What Is The Right Approach To Religion
I want to preface by saying I am not an overthinker in normal life and don’t have ocd tendencies. In religion however I am always hounded by doubts, hyper fixate on the smallest issues and am so frequently distressed that I have at times neglected my duties and even repeat prayers cause I’m so mentally distracted by religious questions I think will make me sinful( sentences that could be lies when I look back, smallest amount of najasat will make my prayers invalid?, light passing through cloths make them transparent?, ghusl incomplete?)I research the simplest questions, often come to conclusions but cannot trust them and must post them here instead while others that are too silly to post still haunt me. I use to read fiqh but it felt like a rabbit hole with hyper specific definitions. Ghamidi sahab tries to encourage understanding the Quran and sunnah and using ijtihad when necessary but how do you know when your own judgement is enough or when a scholar is needed? Should one strive to be at peace with their morality by letting the smaller things slide or should one endeavour to ponder until the truth is apparent? Is this the test of life or am I unnecessarily dwelling into details that should be inconsequential? Should my approach to religion be more focused on perfection of worship rituals or to develop an outstanding moral character. I know both are important but which one will Allah Tall hold me more accountable for. Lastly what does ease in religion actually mean? Ease in which part?
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What Is The Right Approach To Religion
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Note some principles of religion.
Religious is easy. So when you develop difficulties or hardships for you, it is your fault. So you need to correct it.
A personal judgment is required to determine something is impure or not. Impurity should be real, not imaginary or probable.
Consider yourself a human being. Islam has allowed us to commit mistakes and correct them. You do to need to repeat the prayers, correct your mistake within the prayer and perfor sajda sehw.
An honest judgement is made in the cases of ijtihad. This is what we are made responsible. If it gets wrong, just correct yourself and do the right next time. Do not bother about the past opinion because it was too an honest judgement. The matter of ijtihad is not like a question of maths. God judges people according to their capacity and honesty.
You have a kind of OCD. Admit it and then try to address it accordingly.
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Thankyou and I will reflect upon your advice. Logically speaking, all anxiety stems from fear. In religion, it is fear of sin ( and frankly a lot of religious literature emphasises on it so I’ve hardly conjured it up myself). I understand that is why believe in forgiveness as an attribute of Allah is such a huge part of faith. I find knowledge is so easily available, so much of it and so quickly, but wisdom is still so difficult to grasp a hold of.
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