What should a 26-year-old girl do who is suffering from extreme boredom, distress, and frustration, which led her to quit her job, and feels despair and worthlessness, despite her commitment to prayer and reading the Quran, along with her feeling that her supplications are not answered, and that nothing in her life is ever completed?

The questioner is advised to strive diligently in the means that increase faith and bring comfort to the heart, the most important of which are renewing repentance and frequently seeking forgiveness. For indeed, affliction does not descend except due to a sin, and it is not removed except through repentance. The servant must know that the non-fulfillment of what is requested in a supplication does not mean a lack of response. For Allah may save his supplication for him in the Hereafter, or avert from him an evil equivalent to it. One should not be hasty in seeing the answer to their supplication.