Loay wrote on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 01:00 AM How common is the divorce of a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder? Is it required for its occurrence to be documented? A question she answered House of Fatwa The response was as follows: The divorce of the possessed person does not take place, and he is not required to document the divorce under the pretext of reassurance and exonerating himself from the possibility of divorce, in order to preserve his marital and family life, which the noble Sharia seeks to stabilize, preserve and protect, and he needs patience and endurance in resisting this disease and its effects. He must go to a specialist doctor in search of treatment and get rid of this disease.
Explaining what is meant by obsessive-compulsive disorder and its signs
Waswas – with the opening and kasra of the waw – is a hidden voice that occurs inside a person, as a result of thoughts and self-talk. It is said: a man with an obsession; To update himself with whispering, as in “Lisan al-Arab” by the scholar Ibn Manzur, article “Was wa S” (6/254-255, ed. Dar Sader).
It is one of the meanings also mentioned by jurists. Whether they express it in a way that occurs in the soul of hesitation and a lot of doubt, or they express it in a way that makes a person speak irregularly; As in “Al-Ashbah wa Al-Naza’ir” by the scholar Ibn Nujaym Al-Hanafi (p. 42, published by Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah), and “Manh Al-Jalil” by the scholar Alish Al-Maliki (4/144, published by Dar Al-Fikr).
The obsessive person is someone whose self tells him that he has done something, or doubts that this thing has happened, as a result of recurring thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced at some time during the disorder as an intrusive and unwanted intrusion, and for most individuals demonstrate noticeable anxiety or frustration, and the sufferer may try to ignore or Suppressing these thoughts or impulses, or neutralizing them with other thoughts or actions, but they may be compulsive, meaning that they are behaviors and repetitive mental actions, such as washing the limbs, frequent tidying, intense verification in prayer, repeating words silently… and so on, which makes the possessed person feel that he is being guided to perform them. See: “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth” (Quick Reference, DSM-5 Criteria) of the American Psychiatric Association, translated by Dr. Anwar Al-Hammadi (p. 102, published by the Arab House of Sciences).
Psychologists called this disease “obsessive-compulsive disorder” – according to the Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) – and defined it as: a group of persistent, controlling, and continuous thoughts or images that invade the patient’s mind, haunt him, and remain with him, with his inability to push them away or get rid of them, and the patient suffers greatly. Some of them are because they are strange and useless, and they cause a lot of anxiety and inconvenience. Certain phrases or a certain name that are constantly repeated remain on his mind. They may remain trapped in his mind and are called obsessive thoughts, or they may go beyond the level of confinement in the mind to say or act and are called compulsive actions and words. See: “A Dictionary of Psychology and Psychoanalysis” by a group of authors (p. 50, ed. Anglo-Egyptian Library).
Ruling on divorcing a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder
A person suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder is unconscious, and a divorce does not take place if he is divorced. This situation is according to what was mentioned by the majority of jurists.
2023-12-12 23:00:00
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