For Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the core tenets of the holy month can help us achieve communal and personal change
Ramadan is here, and Muslims all around the world are starting a month-long spiritual bootcamp: days spent abstaining from food and drink, and nights passed in prayer and contemplation. Mosques brim with life as they open their doors to the young and the old, familiar faces and new ones standing side by side, reciting the same words as more than a billion others around the globe.
This may be the first Ramadan in two years that we can be together in person, but our homes ache with the absence of those stolen by Covid, and for many this year, iftar meals will be meagre as the cost-of-living crisis takes its toll, with 50% of the country’s Muslims living in poverty.
Nadeine Asbali is a secondary school teacher in London
