100 Days of Being a Widow

Marriage Agreement Part 5 Polygamy...!!!

A boisterous morning at Kyai Mansyur Pesantren. A courtier named Salmia who was in charge of cleaning Ustadz Malik's room, accidentally found the Pill on Melati's bed. KB pills that for the last two years melati consumption for the continuation of his studies. She still wants to continue her undergraduate education first, then she wants to plan her pregnancy.

What Melati decided had passed the blessing of her husband. Melati had made this a covenant before the marriage took place. She just holds on to the blessing of her husband, not not not not not want to have children, but, she just wants to be a mentally ready mother in the future, not a mother full of ambition in her past.

Nyai Mansyur was shocked to see a pill that for life he had never consumed. For him, every child is a gift, his presence cannot be prevented. Moreover, Nyai craved a grandson from his proud son.

"Had it been this long she couldn't get pregnant. It turned out that she herself did not want to get pregnant!"

Murmured Mansyur's nyai who then told a courtier to call Ustadz Malik and Melati.

***

Melati was shocked when her husband came to pick her up at a small madrassa 300 meters from Kyai Mansyur's boarding school. Unlike usual, the husband invited her to go home at an hour that was not yet the time to go home from teaching. Yes, on the sidelines of the lecture, Melati devoted herself to contribute her religious knowledge in this madrassa, while in the scope of pesantren, she could not be trusted by the board.

"Mas, what's wrong with picking you up when it's not time to go home yet?"

Melati asked with questioning eyes.

The husband just smiled looking at Melati, without talking, he took jasmine to go home to the boarding school.

The atmosphere looks crowded. There are several pairs of eyes that look dislike, but feel ordinary by him.

Nyai and Kyai Mansyur have been sitting on a wooden chair. Ustadz Malik led Melati to sit on the opposite bench. Their heads bowed, a sign of reverence to both parents.

The look of disappointment was clearly visible on the face of Kyai Mansyur and Nyai. They even seemed reluctant to stare at Melati even though her struggle had taken the pesantren in a better direction.

Since Melati lived in this pesantren, she took care of babies and children who had been orphaned in her village. He opened the donation through a small foundation he founded. Melati who is tech-savvy makes many partners both at home and abroad help her Foundation in the aspect of funds, so Melati is able to finance Orphanage without using the costs of pesantren. In the building, he gave up the house he occupied for baby and child shelter.

In addition, Melati also actively provides training to poor widows in her village. Training ranging from baking, batik, sewing. He collaborated with social institutions, and this is what later introduced Melati to the NGO Sehati and made her a friend for Rania who happened to live in the same region..

Rania also teaches Melati to publish her social activities to inspire many women out there.

like selogan from NGO Sehati

"Don't stop inspiring".

As a result, he succeeded in helping poor widows to revive their economies.

However, he looked strong outside and porous inside. Apparently he will never look good in the eyes of people who really hate him from the beginning.

It was Ustadzah Tia, a santri who was appointed to be the caretaker of the princess, who had fallen in love with Ustadz Malik, the son of Kyai. He had known Malik since he was still sitting in the air of Diniyah. Admire, then crave to be a wife of Ustadz Malik. It's just that Ustadz Malik has considered him a friend, and can never be more than that.

Since Tia's ustadzah realized the match between Ustadz Malik and Melati, then, there was a deep hatred for Melati, long before Tia managed to get to know him.

Tia was then instigated by the shethan. Every day, he never stopped gossiping about the presence of Melati. Long before Melati contacted her, Tia had already found out about Melati first.

All information about jasmine, will soon spread easily. Including the matter of the Pill that he deliberately sought with the courtier who had conspired with him.

****

The sun outside was scorching, but the atmosphere in the room felt even hotter. Jasmine's body was bathed in sweat when she saw the KB tablet she regularly drank on the table. He certainly did not know who the pill belonged to, because he knew that the husband's family would never consume it.

"I'm sorry Umi..."

Melati said softly but was cut by Nyai.

"How did you educate your wife, Malik. Since when did you dare to lie to Umi?!"

His voice sounded very heavy. He was very disappointed in Malik who just silently watched the behavior of his wife who always pursued the worldly.

"It's not so umi. The purpose of marriage is to get offspring, but according to Malik, this must also be based on physical and mental readiness. Don't we both know that I married jasmine at the age of sixteen?"

He began to get carried away with emotions. His heavy voice turned into a broken cry.

"So all this time, you've been planning all this, getting married, putting off children, continuing your education, and developing every ambition just for the enjoyment of the world?!"

Kyai's speech is heavy.

"Ngapunten Kyai, I was wrong. I really pursue my ideals and hope to be successful in the world of being a housewife while helping others with the knowledge that I have"

Said Melati in self-defense.

A small discussion happened. In any case, Melati will remain a minority that must succumb before Kyai and Nyai.

***

Malik hugged the body of Melati who was dissolving in his sobs. Enough time to delay pregnancy. Melati must be pregnant!!

Malik tries to strengthen and guide Melati. Even Malik promised to help him to care for the baby, if later Melati became pregnant.

They can still hire a nanny to support their baby.

"Calm yourself. We'll step together. I promise I will always be there for you, and I will never leave you".

However, pressure after pressure inside the pesantren makes Melati experience stress. He felt that the rumor that he did not take the Pill had spread to as many boarding schools. It even reached the ears of his father, Kyai Basuki.

Kyai Basuki even took the time to meet the child and shed disappointment.

"If you were still my right, I would whip 100 times over your body, my son, Melati!!!"

Kyai Basuki said when she met Melati. The father did not understand that jasmine had tried hard to deal with this situation. Situations that force him to mature prematurely, accept destiny about losing ideals, strive to reach ideals, and arrange in such a way, so that everything goes according to plan.

The mental state is increasingly runyam, making Melati have to repeatedly miscarry. In one year she miscarried three times. Thus, making his health decline.

"Mother Jasmine we advise not to get pregnant first, so that she completely recovers and her body is neutral from the medicine"

A year, she was years, three years.The time that the doctor said was almost forgotten, when Melati miscarried for the third time.

They don't want to know. What they saw was how a woman became a means of reproduction for the people of Adam and gained a progeny.

Four years passed. Melati never get momongan. Ustadz Malik noticed the symptoms of stress experienced by his wife. He then alibi get a teaching offer outside the pesantren, bring Melati moved pesantren owned by his father, and start a new life of calm.

Can it?

Surely not!!!

At something the night after isya. Jasmine the arrival of guests. Nyai and Kyai accidentally come to see Malik. They were busy chatting with many things, while Melati was sitting in a room that was only bordered by a plywood wall.

He heard, an offer for polygamy!

Jasmine heart feels stopped beating for a moment. It was very eager for him to run forward and protest the offer, obviously!

Is not the point of polygamy already in the pre-marital agreement, then, now he was faced with the fact, that he could not fulfill the agreement with the mother-in-law, which was pledged when the discovery of the Pill.

"Try to get pregnant, we'll wait, but if it comes to time, and we know you haven't gotten pregnant, then let your husband do his sunnah".

Melati broke her tears in front of her husband and family. He begs for mercy at the husband's feet. For the first time this panicked.

Polygamy is the Sunnah that is his greatest fear.

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