What do you do when you have prayed the Istikhara prayer concerning a matter, but you sometimes feel distress and cry, and at other times feel comfort, reassurance, and strength, knowing that the subject of the Istikhara is intentionally failing an exam in medical school so that you can retake the academic year, due to your negligence this year and your inadequate and displeasing-to-God study of the subjects, and because medicine is a humanitarian specialty that requires one to be aware of and knowledgeable about a great deal of information?

The person seeking guidance through Istikhara can do what seems best to them after the Istikhara, whether their heart feels at ease with it or not, because the good lies in what they do. Al-Mubarakpuri mentioned in "Mir’at al-Mafatih" that the person performing Istikhara does what they wish, whether to act or refrain from acting, after the Istikhara, emphasizing that there is no mention in the Hadith that Allah creates a feeling of ease in the heart of the person seeking guidance, or that they see a dream. This view was chosen by Ibn Abd al-Salam and Sheikh Kamal al-Din al-Zamalkani, who both affirmed that the person performing Istikhara should do what comes their way, for indeed there is good in it, even if their heart does not feel at ease with it.