This weekend Eid Al Fitr begins – the feast of breaking the fast and the culmination of Ramadan. This past month, readers, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, will have explored and entrenched their spirituality through fasting and prayer.
The National has followed the pleasures and satisfactions and the trials and tribulations of those fasting in our daily “My Ramadan” series, profiling locals and expatriates. The series has now ended for this year – but the lessons and examples will, we hope, continue for many months.
That, more broadly, is both the challenge and the reward of the holy month. A month of sacrifice enhances our compassion, our understanding of the difficulties faced by others and brings a focus on spirituality to our daily life. The challenge is to keep that going for the rest of the year – to maintain, as the pace of life quickens once again, at least some of the reflection and compassion that has marked this past month. Eid mubarak.
