 There's some people with OCD, they consider everything nudges. The bathroom, the swamp pile of Najasa. The kitchen is nudges. Anything that is wet is nudges. They go to someone's home, if the carpet is a bit wet, that must be nudges. The kitchen, the counters to all nudges. If a child drank from a cup, that's nudges. Everything becomes nudges. And these people, they have an urge to want to wash everything. They wash the kitchen a couple of times a day. They wash the bathroom and the toilet several times a day. If the carpet is wet, they take out the carpet, they wash it, they bring it back. This is called OCD. This is obsessive, compulsive disorder. And in Arabic it has a name. In Islam, there's a terminology for it. You know what it's called? Waswas. This is called waswas. In English we call it OCD. In Arabic we call it waswas. Those that think everything is nudges. This is one kind of people. Another, when it comes to rituals. They're wulu. Wulu is supposed to take two minutes or three minutes. They're wulu. It takes 15 minutes. They wash every single part of their face. They look in the mirror. They make sure that every part of their skin is wet. They obsess over it. They're ghus. You know how long their ghus takes? Just look at their water bill. Look at their water bill and you'll realize how long their ghus takes. A ghus soon is supposed to take no more than 10 minutes. 10 minutes is a lot. 10 minutes is a lot. A ghus soon is getting water to your entire body. It doesn't mean going swimming. It doesn't mean standing under a waterfall. Water to your body. That's it. Some people, their ghus takes an hour. An hour. That is called waswas. That is called OCD. They want to make sure that their water reaches their entire body. That's good. Let water reach your entire body, but don't obsess. Don't obsess over it. A normal shower, a normal ghus should take five minutes to 10 minutes. If you're taking longer than that, that is OCD. That is waswas. One day, one of the Imams, I believe it was Imam al-Bakr. He came out of the shower. You know, previously, they didn't have showers at home. They had public showers. People went to public showers on these showers. Men had their own section. Women had their own section. They didn't have showers at home. We're living at an age. We're blessed. We're blessed to have showers and bathrooms at home. Previously, ask your grandparents. They didn't have showers at home. They would have to go to public showers. Imam al-Bakr, peace be upon him, came out of the shower. It was a public shower. And he had performed ghus. And he was about to leave. Someone told him, Yabna Rasulillah, there's a dry mark. There's a dry spot on your back, meaning you missed a spot in your ghus. He told him, he didn't have to tell me. That's fine. I'll go and I'll... And he didn't repeat his ghusl. He grabbed some water. He wiped his back. That's it. Imagine if we were told, we would have to go and repeat that ghusl three more times. He grabbed some water and he wiped it on his back and he said, that's it. And you don't need to tell me. You didn't have to tell me that there was a dry mark on my back. You see, Imams, they didn't obsess. But we obsess over ghusl. I've seen some people, when they perform ghusl, they move the hair, they start combing to make sure that the water reaches the scalp. No. It's not that bad. When it comes to salah, when it comes to salah, there are some people that have wiswas and salah. Am I in the first rak'ah or am I in the second rak'ah? Am I in the second or am I in the third? Is this the third or the fourth? Is this the fourth or the fifth? As soon as they go to salah, they begin to doubt. Which rak'ah am I in? This is wiswas. Islam tells us that wiswas is not something good. OCD is not something good, treat it, cure it. And Islam has given us the cure. For example, when it comes to obsessive thoughts, does God exist? Is there a day of judgment? What will happen after death? Is there a heaven? Is there a hell? We said that if you genuinely have questions, then you have to go to your research. But if it's not a question, it's just doubt, it's obsessive doubt, then Islam says you're safe. You're okay. Be held accountable for wiswas. If you doubt God's existence, if you doubt God's mercy, if you doubt the day of judgment, just doubt, obsessive doubt, you will not be held accountable. You're not considered a kafir. You will not go to hell. No one will hold you accountable. This is wiswas. But you have to overcome. As for rituals, when it comes to rituals, those that consider everything nejes, everything in the kitchen, everything on the floor, everything that is wet, you know, everyone who has wet hands that comes and shakes hands with you, Islam has a solution. Islam says, كل شيء ان لك طاهر حتى تعلم. Everything is pure by default. Everything is pure. Everything is tahr. Unless you saw the najasa with your own eyes, if you saw the toilet, it's nejes, then you consider it nejes. If you did not see with your own eyes, it's tahr. If there was something wet on the floor, it's tahr. Say that it's water. The kitchen, the counters, are they nejes? No, they're not nejes. You count, you consider them tahr. If a child came and drank from a glass, is that glass nejes? No, it's not nejes. You consider tahr. Someone shakes his hands, shakes your hands and his hand was wet. Is it nejes? No, it's not nejes. Everything is tahr. كل شيء ان لك طاهر حتى تعلم. This is one. Two, we have another la that says, لا شكل كثير الشك. If you doubt a lot, you don't pay attention to your doubts. If you doubt, is this the first raka'a or the second raka'a? We have laws, of course. If this is the first raka'a or the second raka'a, your salah is void. Is this the second raka'a or the second raka'a? You say this is the third and then you have to do a raka'a be'htiyat. Is this the third or the fourth? You say this is the fourth and then you do a raka'a, you pray a prayer of one raka'a as ihtiyat after. However, but if you repeatedly doubt in every salah, in every salah you're repeatedly doubt, you don't repeat any salah any longer. Khalas. You pray once and that's it. You're revealed. If you repeatedly doubt, is it correct? Is it not correct? You don't do it over. You're ghusl. Please go easy on your water bills. Just perform ghusl once and that's it. Don't keep on repeating it. Perform your ghusl and get out of the shower and that's it. Don't keep on doubting, don't keep on obsessing that did I do it correctly? Did I wash my entire hair? No, you don't need to do that. We have another principle that says qa'idat al-faragh. Qa'idat al-faragh says that in salah once you passed a stage and you doubted regarding the former stage, don't pay attention. For example, you're in sujood and you doubt whether your raka'a was correct or not or did you say, Subh'ana Rabbi al-'Azim wa bi hamdah una? Don't pay attention. You passed. It's called the passing stage. If you passed from one stage to the next and you doubt the correctness of the former stage, don't pay attention. Continue with your salah. Islam has made it so easy for us, but we make it difficult. We make things difficult for us.