Let’s Talk About Religious OCD (Live Q & A with Eram & Sitara) | Part 01

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In this 4-part live Q&A session, Eram and Sitara answered audience questions and comments about their November podcast on Understanding and Overcoming Religious OCD, available here:    • Live Podcast | Eram & Sitara | Understandi...  

This was a wide-ranging conversation delving further into possible causes of religious OCD, the damage done by gender segregation, the demeaning discourses about Muslim women, such as calling them ‘fitna’ (temptation), questions on interfaith marriage and divorce, and how to differentiate between healthy moral guidance and fear conditioning.

The video description for each of the four parts includes chapters to make it easy for listeners to focus on the topics of discussion.

00:19 Summary of November podcast on religious OCD
04:02 Experience of judgement and shame
13:26 Healing through connecting with God, Al-Rahman
15:24 Patriarchy wants to keep women separated from God
17:26 Fear of making a mistake when reading the Quran
21:08 Gender segregation and appropriate interaction

The following academic sources have been cited in this Q&A session:

Verses from the Qur’an. Q2:221, Q5:5, Q24:26, Q66:1, Q92:7.
Hadith Report from Sahih Al-Bukhari: https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6228
Dr Shabir Ally’s discussion on interfaith marriage:    • Interfaith Marriage: What Does the Quran T...  

Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl’s fatwa on interfaith marriage for Muslims living in the West: https://www.searchforbeauty.org/2016/... and https://www.searchforbeauty.org/2016/...

Dr Sitara Akram is a researcher in Islamic finance and Islamic legal theory. Sitara shares her knowledge and research via her YouTube channel    / @sitaraakram   and her website www.sitaraakram.com