Insinuating Whispers About Apostacy
Question

                Many years ago (15 years) I read that apostatizing from Islam is one of the things that invalidates wudu (ablution) and that stuck in my mind. Every time I want to do wudu, I feel that I am a non-Muslim, and I repeat wudu more than once. It may be a kind of waswas (whispering from the shaytan) but I really felt as if I was a non-Muslim. I would repeat the Shahadatayn (testimony of faith) but there was a feeling inside that I didn’t believe it. But I would think about the meaning and I found that I believed in it, but the feeling that I am a non-Muslim will not go away. I weep and I pray to Allah to heal me from what has befallen me. 

I used to refuse to get married for fear of disbelief, lest it invalidate the marriage.

Despite all that, I still pray regularly, read Quran and listen to lectures. I know that the way to treat this waswas is not to pay any attention to it, but I was weak and I paid attention to it. I know that I am wrong. What should I do?
Praise be to Allah.
	We ask Allah to heal you and 
	make you well, and to replace your waswas with peace of mind and certain 
	faith. 

	You should realize that what has 
	befallen you is a great test, and if you bear it with patience and seek 
	reward with Allah for it, you will attain a great deal of good, by Allah’s 
	leave. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: 
	“Calamity will continue to befall the believing man and the believing woman 
	with regard to themselves, their children and their wealth, until they meet 
	Allah with no sins on them.” (al-Tirmidhi (2399).

	Al-Tirmidhi (2396) and Ibn Majah 
	(4031) narrated from Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet 
	(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “The greatest reward comes 
	with the greatest trial. When Allah loves a people, He tests them. Whoever 
	accepts that wins His pleasure but whoever is discontent with that earns His 
	wrath.” So receive the glad tidings of a great reward, in sha Allah, and 
	remember that what you feel in yourself will not harm you, so long as you 
	love Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and 
	His religion, and you hate disbelief and its people. 

	There follows some advice with 
	which we ask Allah to benefit you: 

	1 – You should be certain that 
	this waswas comes from the shaytan and is not real. How can you be a 
	non-Muslim when you pray regularly, read Quran and listen to useful 
	lectures?  

	2 – You should remember Allah a 
	great deal (dhikr), so that the shaytaan, who is the source of this waswas, 
	will go away from you. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon 
	him) said: “… and He (Allah) has commanded you to remember Allah; and the 
	likeness of that is a man who was being pursued swiftly by the enemy, until 
	he reached a strong fortress in which he found protection; similarly a man 
	cannot find protection from the Shaytan except by remembering Allah.”

	3 – You know that the way to 
	treat this waswas is to ignore it, so continue to do that. 

	4 – You should fill your spare 
	time with things that will benefit you, so that you will not have time to 
	think about this waswas. 

	5 – You should pray to Allah a 
	great deal and turn to Him, and seek refuge with Him. Look for the times 
	when du’as are readily answered, such as the last third of the night and 
	while in prostration. 

	We ask Allah to heal you and 
	take away this evil from you. 

	And Allah knows best.