
Sunday morning.
Kyai Ghazali closed the Book of Riyadussalihin which he had read. He put it back on the table.
He opened his glasses, and put them back in his special wallet. He then walked over to his wife, Umm Salamah, who was embroidering a tablecloth.
"Ummi, order his bitter coffee one" Kyai Ghazali said in a joking tone. He kissed his wife.
"Every dear Abah" Umm Salamah put her embroidery cloth on the table. Umm Salamah then stood up.
"Assynogaic"
Mirza went into the house. He just finished completing the study of the students.
"Walaikumsalam" answered Kyai Ghalazi and Ummi Salamah together.
"You want to make Gus coffee ?" Umm Salamah asked her son.
"Inggeh, may Mi" replied Hamzah.
Umm Salamah walked into the kitchen. Soon he came out with a tray, containing two cups of coffee, one cup of tea, and a plate of fried bananas.
"This Bik Ijah turned out to have made fried bananas, still hot" said Ummi Salamah while putting the tray he carried onto the table.
Hamzah immediately approached and immediately grabbed a piece of fried banana.
"Today we go to the Pesantren Nurul Huda. Miladnya Nurul Huda event, all Laila and Hind as well" said Kyai Ghazali.
Laila and Hindun, Hamzah's twin sister, did go to school at Nurul Huda boarding school. As has become a tradition in the pesantren world, the son of Kyai's daughter, the owner of the pesantren, will not go to school in his own parents' boarding school, but will be lodged in other pesantren. If the mumps in the pesantren itself, the term is not mondok. The bedding should be away from the parents. That's how kira is.
"Oh, is today Bah ? Ummi kog next Sunday" said Umm Salamah.
"Today's Ummii, this 16th. We leave for Nurul Huda at eight in the morning. The show starts at 10 this morning." Answer Kyai Ghazali.
"Ummi is getting senile like him" said Ummi Salamah as she sipped her tea.
"Don't dong Ummi. Do not be senile, Ummi is not yet nimang grandson" said Kyai Ghazali.
"Where is Gus ??" Ask Kyai Ghazali later. The question was addressed to Hamzah, his son.
"Where is Bah ?" Hamzah doesn't understand.
"Well, that's Ummi you already want to nimang grandson. So that this house is not deserted. Abah also misses the laughter of young children" Kyai Ghazali said.
"Hamzah just returned from studying abah, let Hamzah practice the knowledge that Hamzah got first"
"Marriage will not stop you from moving. It will only entrench your fighting spirit, because the presence of a wife, will give its own ghirah in your Islam. Half your Dien" Kyai Hamzah said.
"Hamzah will tell abah if Hamzah is ready" Hamzah said, answering his abah's words.
"Don't wait long to be ready"
"Kyai Khozin has three daughters. God willing, Kyai Khozin will not refuse if we ask for one of his daughters. Abah and Kyai Khozin have been friends for a long time. If you marry one of his daughters, then the relationship will get closer" Kyai Ghazali said.
Kyai Khozin is the owner of the Nurul Huda Pesantren Cottage, where Laila and Hind goiter.
"God willing, whoever will be the soul mate of Hamzah, that is the best. But now, let Hamzah focus on helping abah in the pesantren first" said Hamzah.
"alright,... It seems like a long time ago you can hold a grandchild" said Kyai Ghazali, then he also sucked a piece of fried banana.
"Bi, but Mr. Tarno permits today, there is his family celebration" said Ummi Salamah.
Pak Tarno was the driver of the Kyai Ghazali family.
"Lha there's Hamzah, can drive. Piye toh Mi ? Have a son lanang dashing kog still confused no driver"
"Let Hamzah come, who knows he will see his daughter Kyai Chozin, immediately steady and ready for marriage"
"Change,... Don't so. Let Hamza make his own choice. Do not force the will" said Umm Salamah.
"Who imposes the will ? Abah does not impose his will" Kyai Ghazali defended himself.
"Yes, if you insist on Hamzah continuously, it is the same as forcing the will" said Umm Salamah.
"Change, Ummi, finish the discussion about his soul mate. Hamzah wants to go to the room, take a bath. We leave for Nurul Huda at eight, right ? it's past seven. Ummi must not be ready, right ?" Hamzah mediates the conversation of Abah and Umminya.
Hamzah stood up and went into his room.
"That's not forcing Hamzah"
Umm Salamah said after Hamzah left.
"Say, Abah did not insist. But getting married is indeed the sunnahan to be in the ummi movement. Immediately"
"Don't make Hamzah feel uncomfortable. He's Abah's man"
"Well, why is he a man ? Is it because he's a man, so we as parents can't direct ?"
"Direct, not force ! Let Hamzah choose his own soul mate"
"Ummi wants to go inside, get ready. Supply for Laila and Hindun also has not been prepared Ummi"
Umm Salamah lifted the empty cups into a tray, and brought them back to the kitchen.
***
Eight o'clock in the morning.
The journey takes about an hour.
Finally they arrived at the Nurul Huda Pesantren. Kyai Chozin greeted them kindly, and allowed the Kyai Ghazali family to enter the house.
"Assalamo"
"Milkahmur"
"Monggo - mongo. Please enter Kyai" Kyai Chozin said kindly.
Kyai Chozin and Kyai Ghazali shake hands and embrace each other.
Hamzah also saluted and kissed Kyai Chozin's hand.
"God willing, is this Hamzah ??" Kyai Chozin said as he patted Hamzah on the shoulder.
"Ingeh Kyai, I am Hamzah" Hamzah replied courteously.
"Monggo - monggo, please sit down" Ummi Zainab, Kyai Chozin's wife, invited her guests to sit down.
"How's Kyai doing ?" Kyai Chozin asked Kyai Ghazali.
"Alhamdulillah, good Kyai"
"Thank you Kyai, we've come all the way here to attend our invitation"
"It was intended by Kyai, all of you want to see Laila and Hindun. May I meet Laila and Hindun now ?" Ask Umm Salamah. Apparently Ummi Salamah was very long and wanted to meet with his twin daughters soon.
"Oh, man,.. English, tafaddol. Let's take it to Laila and Hindun's room" replied Ummi Zainab.
Ummi Salamah and Ummi Zainab left together, heading for the dormitory of Pesantren's daughter Nurul Huda.
"I heard that Nak Hamzah went to Egypt, and Kyai ?" Ask Kyai Chozin.
"True Kyai, Hamzah school in Egypt, since the fifth grade of the Ibtidaiyah Madrasah. Now it's home" replied Kyai Ghazali.
"God's Masya.... A dozen years in Egypt. So the Pesantren Al Fallah will grow with the presence of Nak Hamzah"
"Amiiin Kyai. The Nurul Huda pesantren also I see growing. That's up ahead, there's a new builder I've seen Kyai"
"Rubber. It's the construction of a new building, for a language lab"
"God willing" Kyai Ghazali said.
"Assynogaic"
A beautiful girl in a white hood walked into the room with a tray containing a drink cup.
"Milkahmur"
"It's Annisa. My eldest daughter, Kyai" Kyai Chozin said.
Annisa smiled and nodded her head. He put the cups he brought on the table.
"Please drink it" Annisa said, then she went back inside.
*Annisa (visual illustration)
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