Before you build that mosque

Reading an obituary of the late nelson mandela, i was struck by this particular passage:

"Winnie, his second wife, whom he married in 1958, came to share his political cause, but from the first realised that 'he belongs to them', the public. This was a complaint of the children too, as mr Mandela himself confessed. He was, one told him, 'a father to all our people, but you have never had time to be a father to me."

This is a real risk for people who are serving a public cause.

So to all my brothers and sisters who are still 'missing by half' (yours truly included),

Choose and prepare and plan wisely,

Think well, because building the foundation blocks of a society is not an easy thing,

And its even more of a challenge because we must be fathers and mothers to all the ummah, in addition to becoming fathers and mothers to young khalids and umars, and little aishahs and nusaybahs.