Ramadan a time to purify the soul

We ought to focus inward during the holy month of Ramadan, a reader says. Other topics: medical malpractice, Adec, bus air-conditioning

Ramadan gives us an opportunity to travel inward, a reader says. Pawan Singh / The National

The soul knows well what to think and what not to think, what to do and what not to do. It’s time to take an audit of it. Ramadan is the blessed time of the year to do just that. Travelling inward is the key.

Accountability of one’s self is a transcendental mechanism for everyone to heed – if our mental, physical and spiritual health is precious to us. Let’s remember, it’s too costly a slip in life for one to bear when that aspect of self-examination is not factored into our conscious being. The “divine” ROI (return on introspection) that one will get out of a detailed scrutiny of one’s own thoughts, words, actions, feelings and motives are phenomenal. It will refine the spirit for clarifying life’s purpose, invigorate one’s core of deliberate existence and instil renewed happiness. Imagine how valuable it will be for us to get a progress report from our very own soul.

For one to blossom forth anew, let’s conscientiously engage with the blessed time of the year – gracefully. It’s the holy month of Ramadan, time for all of us to retreat, care, forgive and rejoice. It is this sacred period of contemplation that will liberate one and all from the spoils of thoughts and deeds, intent and ego.

No one but the Almighty knows you better. Listen to the gentle whispers and advice from above, and within.

Get to know where you stand in the values and morals of mankind.

Take note to the audit of your soul with joyous conviction. Engage your thinking heart fully in this inward exercise. Award it full control to drive you through this period of purification. After which you will be secured only for a bouquet of greater glories.

Reuben Smile, Dubai

Prudent move to curb medical malpractice

Removing financial incentives to prescribing unnecessary medications and tests, by both clinics and pharmaceutical companies, is the key to changing the behaviour of doctors practising in this country (UAE healthcare costs 'driven up by criminalisation of malpractice', June 8).

John Paul, Dubai

This article appears to be alarmist. It notes current figures for incidents of malpractice are not available, and those from previous years that are available are not compared to those from other countries of similar size and development.

How can any claims about the effects of criminalisation be made absent from this data?

Jeffrey Martin, Dubai

Criminalisation of medical misconduct will save more lives and serve as a deterrent to offenders and others.

Surely, the benefits outweigh the costs.

Chukwuemeka Alozie, Dubai

Adec is doing a great job

It's great to see the classification of schools in Abu Dhabi (Adec inspections reveal improvements in private school rankings, June 7). I wonder how many cities around the world do such a thing.

Mudassir Ahmed Ali Hashmi, India

Concern over bus air con

The parents and Government are rightly concerned over broken airconditioning in school buses (Parents of pupils at Abu Dhabi school furious over buses with broken AC, June 6). Can that concern be extended to the lives of labourers, many of whom ride to and from work sites in buses without airconditioning?

Jeffrey Martin, Dubai

While parents are rightly concerned over the broken air-conditioning in school buses, we also need to think about the condition of labourers.

How much extra will it cost if they put air-conditioning in the buses carrying labourers to work? Many of them travel between places near Al Ain and Abu Dhabi in buses having no airconditioning.

Hoor Khan, Dubai