How Intrusive Doubts Obstruct the Path of Truth

Doubts sometimes come to turn a person away from the truth, from the truth as a stance, from the truth as a culture, from the truth as an idea, as a belief, from the truth as conduct, from the truth as action.

Sometimes they mean to turn you away from the very beginning, right from the start.

And sometimes they may come later. You may be following the path of truth, as happens to many people.

You may be following the path of truth and have a substantial record of good deeds, and have taken prominent, well-known stands, or perhaps not. You proceed normally up to a certain point, then face certain problems, certain issues, certain circumstances,

and in that situation, doubts come and affect you badly, to the point of paralyzing you, of stopping you from continuing on your path, from continuing your work, however important it may be, however great it may be, however much it may bring you closer to God, glorified and exalted,

and whatever its place in terms of responsibility.

It may be among the most important responsibilities God has entrusted to us, and which rest on our shoulders, responsibilities we cannot escape on Judgment Day except by fulfilling them.

Then you sit back, grow apathetic, and become paralyzed.

And disavow responsibility, then become immersed in all your thoughts, in every glance, in all your concerns, your psychological concerns within the framework of those obsessions.

Those obsessions grow and intensify, and remain with you much of the time, and on many occasions, in your free time, while sitting, before you sleep, at many times, as you engage with these obsessions, you replay them in your mind and engage with them,

and then, and then they grow and expand.

Obsessions are among the afflictions that can grow and intensify.

They grow and more and more delusions arise, and more and more suspicion.

Your view of your fellow believers grows worse, or of your relatives, or of your social circle, or of the person with whom you had a problem and some particular issue.

The problem grows many, many, many times larger than it is .

Your reaction grows, the situation grows in your mind.

Some may nearly drown in their obsession.

They no longer care about anything else or pay attention to other matters.

They start analyzing all over again, He draws conclusions about many situations and gives them twisted interpretations.

And wrong interpretations. So many words, so many actions, then he gets caught up in flawed, mistaken calculations, and so on.