Holy month offers Muslims chance to reflect on their faith and repent

Muslim faithful in prayer at the Jamia Mosque, Nairobi, April 2022. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Turkish writer Elif Shafak, in her book The Flea Palace, wrote that “faith, like a train schedule is essentially a matter of timing at specific hours of human life.

There is a schedule that leaves before noon and this one carries those who have internalised a belief system when they are still children. Then there’s another one that leaves in the afternoon carrying along the troubled passengers of teenage years.