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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Leavinnggg!!
Bismillah,
Yay, many months and no updates. What a way to start a journal. D: !!
InshAllah I'm due to leave on the 30th, after a delay due to complications with the surgery...
The dinner that Fahad and co. planned for me was truly awesome. Even Ali came down from Saskatoon. It's probably the first time in my life that some type of 'surprise' party has actually caught me more or less completely off guard. It was awesome! The gifts were all so thoughtful, and I haven't really seen the card that much yet, but I'm sure I'll reaaaaaaallly enjoy it.
On a sadder note, I did say my first real goodbye. It was to Ali, since it almost certain that I won't be seeing him before I leave. With everyone else, it was sort of a "salaam for now, but I'll see you before I leave, inshAllah." It was sad.
On a more comical note, today was an appreciation dinner for the work my dad had done as chair of the department of Neurology. I had been up and about the whole day, and didn't get to really charge the battery fully before going. The party was three and a half hours long. Towards the end, my battery failed. Commence brown bearded man carrying a beeping box around in a party full of white doctors.
...yeah.
InshAllah I'll try to update more as time goes on. :)
-Shuaibu
Yay, many months and no updates. What a way to start a journal. D: !!
InshAllah I'm due to leave on the 30th, after a delay due to complications with the surgery...
The dinner that Fahad and co. planned for me was truly awesome. Even Ali came down from Saskatoon. It's probably the first time in my life that some type of 'surprise' party has actually caught me more or less completely off guard. It was awesome! The gifts were all so thoughtful, and I haven't really seen the card that much yet, but I'm sure I'll reaaaaaaallly enjoy it.
On a sadder note, I did say my first real goodbye. It was to Ali, since it almost certain that I won't be seeing him before I leave. With everyone else, it was sort of a "salaam for now, but I'll see you before I leave, inshAllah." It was sad.
On a more comical note, today was an appreciation dinner for the work my dad had done as chair of the department of Neurology. I had been up and about the whole day, and didn't get to really charge the battery fully before going. The party was three and a half hours long. Towards the end, my battery failed. Commence brown bearded man carrying a beeping box around in a party full of white doctors.
...yeah.
InshAllah I'll try to update more as time goes on. :)
-Shuaibu
Monday, August 20, 2007
Whew
A nice long bikeride/workout is a great way to get yourself out of the dumps.
I feel much better now. :D
I feel much better now. :D
Monday, August 6, 2007
*Sigh*
Bismillah,
While I'm still deciding what I want this blog to become, I must express (rant) my distress at what tends to happen with our "up and coming" brothers (and likely sisters) after they leave university.
A typical case example seems to be:
A brother/sister rises to an executive position in an organization through hard work, and then continues to help the organization till they graduate. However, once they graduate, they get absorbed into work, and then marriage, and very little is done. Usually, they aren't even along anymore to provide input to their descendants, who must invent the wheel all over again every 4 years or so.
As a younger youth I was extremely optimistic seeing all these young university students around me who were so filled with zeal. I was saying to myself, "those fourth year university students are going to go out into the working world and REALLY make things happen." Then as time passed, they were forgotten, and seemed to have disappeared, and I got into University myself, thankfully to find another group that seemed to have took their place. However, at the current moment, as I'm about to graduate, I can't name very many who I see having as significant a role now in da'wah than they did back in their University times.
The optimism that I mentioned before was with respect to the state with our elders today, who don't do much in terms of work, aside from arguing about what they feel the solution should be. While seeing all these great da'iys everywhere, I was enthused to believe that things would be quite different by the time we became "uncles." However, in retrospect, I fear that our elders probably had their own shooting stars.
Until we shake off our mentality of doing all our "quota" of Islamic work during our student days then leaving the responsibility for the younger generation, I strongly feel that we will not be able to advance the Ummah past the state of our parents and grandparents' generation.
And most fearful of all, I feel that I'm fast being sucked into the trap I speak of.
While I'm still deciding what I want this blog to become, I must express (rant) my distress at what tends to happen with our "up and coming" brothers (and likely sisters) after they leave university.
A typical case example seems to be:
A brother/sister rises to an executive position in an organization through hard work, and then continues to help the organization till they graduate. However, once they graduate, they get absorbed into work, and then marriage, and very little is done. Usually, they aren't even along anymore to provide input to their descendants, who must invent the wheel all over again every 4 years or so.
As a younger youth I was extremely optimistic seeing all these young university students around me who were so filled with zeal. I was saying to myself, "those fourth year university students are going to go out into the working world and REALLY make things happen." Then as time passed, they were forgotten, and seemed to have disappeared, and I got into University myself, thankfully to find another group that seemed to have took their place. However, at the current moment, as I'm about to graduate, I can't name very many who I see having as significant a role now in da'wah than they did back in their University times.
The optimism that I mentioned before was with respect to the state with our elders today, who don't do much in terms of work, aside from arguing about what they feel the solution should be. While seeing all these great da'iys everywhere, I was enthused to believe that things would be quite different by the time we became "uncles." However, in retrospect, I fear that our elders probably had their own shooting stars.
Until we shake off our mentality of doing all our "quota" of Islamic work during our student days then leaving the responsibility for the younger generation, I strongly feel that we will not be able to advance the Ummah past the state of our parents and grandparents' generation.
And most fearful of all, I feel that I'm fast being sucked into the trap I speak of.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
First post!
Bismillah,
I think I'll just post random stuff here, and see how long it takes someone I know to find it. :)
-Umar
I think I'll just post random stuff here, and see how long it takes someone I know to find it. :)
-Umar
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