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Assalamualaikum ...i had an obsession that i may have hiv aids .....i thout in my heart that time that if i i dont have that disease by check up then i will become gynaecologist and help women ..anyway i didnt go for check up ..but now i am feeling that becominh gynaecologist is difficult as studies and duty both are hard and many emergrncy cases might come due to which marital lifte will be affected ...when i think of studying other subjects i feel like Allah will punish me with that disease what shall i do please help me
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All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
A vow is not concluded based on intention alone; rather, it is concluded after uttering a statement by which one obliges oneself to do something, as we have clarified in Fataawa 10716 and 154575.
Therefore, you are not obliged to work as a gynecologist and you are not required to do anything if you do not take up that specialization and choose another.
You have no reason to fear to be affected with a disease as a punishment from Allaah for not studying gynecology; so avoid these obsessive whispers and ignore them completely.
Allaah Knows best.
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