*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.