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salamu alakum i am emailing on behalf of my friend. she is 19 years old she feels she commited shirk,because she had evil desires about allah sw, and once she has this wispered in her ear that jesus is son of god when she was reading surah maryam.she usally prays, she felt that maybe it is her soul,i told her it might be shaytan wispering but she dosnt balieve that, she says her souls has become weak, she cries in her bed every night and she falling behind in her studies and she is saying i have disgrace myself and she is giving up, even do she reads the quran trying to do good deeds,please help me to give advice to her i feel that she is slipping away that is my email that i giva you, can this be confidential only send the answer on to my email i dont want everyone to readt it jazakallahu khayran. `

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Answer:

Shaytaan doubts

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Dear and beloved Sister in Islam, the very fact that your friend fears the disobedience and transgression of the Boundaries of Allah Subhanah, the very fact that she fears that perchance her ‘imaan’ has become weak and she profoundly cries because of that, and the very fact that she strives to read and study the Glorious Quran, guards her prayers, and strives to do good deeds…..is evident that her ‘imaan’ is ‘alive and kicking’ and she is of those who sincerely fears Allah and His Inevitable Day of Tribunal!

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 17 Surah Israa verses 61-65:

61 Behold! We said to the Angels: "Bow down unto Adam": they bowed down except Iblees: he said "Shall I bow down to one whom Thou didst create from clay?"

62 He (Iblees) said "Seest Thou? This is the one whom Thou hast honored above me! If Thou wilt but respite me to the Day of Judgment I will surely bring his descendants under my sway, all but a few!"

63 Allah said: "Go thy way; if any of them follow thee verily Hell will be the recompense of you (all) an ample recompense.

64 Lead to destruction those whom thou canst among them with thy (seductive) voice; make assaults on them with thy cavalry and thy infantry; mutually share with them wealth and children; and make promises to them. But the Shaytaan promises them nothing but deceit.

65 As for My servants no authority shalt thou have over them." Enough is thy Lord for a Disposer of Affairs.

Dear and beloved sister in Islam, the accursed enemy of man, the Shaytaan, is bent on creating doubts in the hearts of men and take them away from the Straight Path of the Lord. It is only when one who truly wishes to learn, understand, comprehend and unconditionally obey, follow and implement the Truth of Islam into their lives…that the Shaytaan charges with his ‘cavalry’ and his ‘infantry’ and puts his whole and complete effort in creating doubts and thoughts of blasphemy in the mind of that believer….for now the Shaytaan truly fears that this person who is studying the deen and wishes to truly submit to the Lord is getting out of his well-knit and seductive web of lies and deceit.

Thus my dear and beloved sister in Islam, tell your beloved friend that whenever the Shaytaan tries to put such blasphemous thoughts and doubts into her heart…she should keep her full trust and belief in her Lord Creator, recognize with absolute conviction that these are no more than the desperate and futile efforts and attempts of one who is truly accursed by the Lord; and know and believe with absolute conviction that his only objective is to take her away from the Straight Path of Allah Subhanah.

Tell your beloved friend that just because the accursed and evil Shaytaan has been successful in planting a blasphemous doubt or thought in her mind….does not make her a disbeliever in the least! That is precisely what the evil and accursed enemy of man, the Shaytaan has promised to do and will continue to do until the Day of Judgment!!!

Whenever the evil and accursed Shaytaan even so much as tries to whisper these blasphemous thoughts and doubts into her mind, she should immediately turn back to Allah her Lord, declare refuge in Him from the evil plans of the accursed Shaytaan by saying ‘Aoodo billahe minas Shaytaan ar-Rajeem’ (I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Shaytaan)…and recite the ‘Muawwadaat’ (113^th Surah Falaq and 114^th Surah An-Naas) as often as she can or as much as is easy for her……it is expected that her Lord Most Merciful will protect her from every evil scheme of the accursed Shaytaan, Insha Allah.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

Burhan