To the emotionally overwhelmed:

When others are reading Quran with tears streaming down their face and your tears are pouring down for a completely different reason...

When others are praying extra prayers and you're struggling to even pray on time because of your afflictions..

When others are fasting extra fasts and you're struggling to eat less or more because of your depression..

Remember: Taking care of yourself is an act of worship. Doing what you can, in your circumstance, that's an act of worship. The Prophet (peace be upon him) taught us, "Indeed, actions are by intention." (Bukhari)

Live your life with mindfulness; that you're eating when others are fasting extra to have the strength to get through your day- that's an act of worship.

That while others are reading chapters upon chapters of the Quran, your one verse in translation is all you can muster right now, and God willing, it'll be the page that will be a witness for you on the Day of Judgment- make that intention.

That for another, doing prayers on time and then extra may be easy, but for you, each and every prayer on time is your personal struggle, and you ask God to accept it as if you'd been in a state of prayer throughout the day of night even if it's only two Rakahs.

Don't underestimate the mercy of God, nor belittle His generosity. In your struggle, what you see as something unworthy is deeply acknowledged by Al-Shakoor, The Appreciative.

If you see a child scrape his knee, watch him whimper with the burn of the pain and cry from the blood he sees oozing out, would you tell him the pain will lastforever? That he should never stand up again because he will not heal?

Then why are you so harsh on your own self? The test you're going through right now smarts, it burns, it's painful. But with God's will, it will slowly stop hurting. The wound will slowly close. The pain will become a memory. The experience a lesson.

And the scar that is left will prove to you every day that you have fallen, yes, but then you stood up again.