I just read a very interesting story. A teacher gave her students the following assignment: Ask a parent what their dream life was when they were a teenager, and then write an essay comparing it to your dreams for your future right now. Accordingly, a teenager asked her mom about her aspirations when she was young, and the mother replied, (reflecting her Sixties hippie roots,) "I wished for a simple life, living on a farm commune, growing my vegetables and being happy.
The daughter paused for a moment and stopped writing down her mother’s words. "What’s wrong?" Her mother asked. "It’s sort of embarrassing," the teenager replied, "because all I want is to drive a Lexus and get a good job."
In the first place, this may seem to be a harmless little story to elicit a chuckle. But it got me thinking. How many Muslim "activists" have I met, who spent all their free time doing Dawah and promoting Muslim causes, only to lose their children and spouses to the kufr lifestyle? Amazingly, that would ever be the case. But I’ve seen it first hand and it isn’t pretty.
