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I keep doubting my prayers and Wudu, repeating them even though I know it’s waswasa. How can I stop these obsessive doubts and find peace?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'āla

Ignore these intrusive thoughts. What ignore means is dont repeat. Whatever the circumstance may be, to avoid developing waswasah, dont repeat. This is your fiqhi duty.

And Allah knows best
Can you perform wudu with water resistant sunscreens or fake tans?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'āla

If it is water resistant, you cannot do wudhu with it. As for a fake tan, as long as it is not "water-proof", you can do wudhu over it.

The criterion is water reaching the skin, for wudhu and for ghusl.

And Allah knows best
What should I do if I can only pass gas during Wudu and prayer due to stress, sometimes managing to hold it in, but other times unable to, causing the prayer time to pass?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Such medical condition has different degrees. If gas keeps on passing continuously with out holding period. In this case, you perform Wudhu for every Salah  and pray even if gas passes during prayer. 
if gas stops for a while enough to pray the obligatory Salah, then perform Wudhu and Salah during that gap even if you leave recommended acts of Salah just to keep your obligatory Salah with Wudhu.

Wassalam.
As a concerned mother of a 12-year-old facing anxiety and religious OCD, I am wondering if my daughter had the right Niyyah but made mistakes in Wudu without realizing it, are her past Wudu and prayers valid? Should we encourage her to ignore her doubts?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'āla

Indeed, you must be concerned, and if not stopped, it will consume her, and make her life miserable, and everyone around her as well. 

She must only follow her shar'i takleef. Nothing more, nothing less. Her duty is to constantly dismiss her doubts, and consider whatever she does as correct, even if other thoughts enter her mind, and even if she continues to think she did it wrong. She ignores it. 

Once she does this for a while, it will, in shaa Allah, break the cycle of her intrusive thoughts.

And Allah knows best.