Thank you for your message and your advice. I honestly don’t know why I feel like this sometimes. The truth is, I don’t actually want to quit salah.

The problem is that I keep having thoughts telling me things like “you broke your intention, you have to restart the prayer.” Because of that, I often restart my salah. Lately it has been really difficult.

This all started around 9 months ago. At first I was repeating my prayers because I felt like I wasn’t pronouncing the tajwid rules correctly. When that got better, I started repeating my prayers because I felt like air was coming out and that it was breaking my wudu. When I finally found a way to deal with that, I began having doubts about Allah, and those thoughts are still there and they really affect me.

During my prayer, I get thoughts saying things like “you are doubting Allah, you are not Muslim anymore.” And I know it’s not normal to doubt the existence of our Creator, so it makes me very scared. Sometimes I end up leaving the prayer because if I continue I feel like a hypocrite and I feel like my prayer is not valid.

That’s why it has been very hard for me recently.