Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
According to Don’t they know it’s Friday by Jeremy Williams – the handbook highlighting cross-cultural considerations for business and life in the Gulf – in addition to fasting, the good Muslim will also try to avoid all evil thoughts, actions, demands and wrong-doing, some of which can annul the fast.
A Western woman should, as always in the Gulf, dress modestly, i.e. she should not wear a short skirt or have bare arms. It is singularly insensitive to wear such clothing during Ramadan.
To be avoided are: indecent or dishonest talk and hostile and hypocritical behaviour.
The fast, in calling for the exercise of patience, serves to inculcate the virtues of endurance, tolerance and respect for fellow human beings.
