Elegi Love Nayla

Chapters. 4

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Sadam stopped the pace of his iron vehicle once it arrived at the green painted minimalist home page. The house looks very simple, but looks beautiful and comfortable when viewed.

Around it is overgrown with various kinds of flowers and palm trees, so as to touch the beautiful impression.

"Please come in, Nak Nayla!" With a friendly smile, Safa invited Nayla to enter her house. The house was occupied only by him, Sadam, and Zidan, because his only son lived in Cairo and worked as a doctor in the country that got the nickname 'the city of a thousand towers.

Nayla circulates her net vision to the rest of the room as soon as she enters Sadam's house. He was amazed when his sense of sight hit the calligraphy hanging on the wall. The calligraphy is inscribed with a two-sentence recitation of the shahada and at the bottom is written with the letter Z accompanied by the author's signature.

Nayla is very sure, the calligraphy is the handwriting of Zidan, a handsome young man who is coveted, dreamed, and expected to be a husband, the perfect candidate for the priest, the man who later poured out his affection and made her queen on the throne of the heart.

What a beautiful dream and hope Nayla against Zidan. At the moment he is forgetting that the Writer of Scenario is the All Willing. He is the one who writes the destiny of love. Either a beautiful love destiny, or a love destiny that leads to grief and forces Nayla to shed tears of sorrow.

Who is the Screenplay Writer? He is the Supreme Being of all things, 'God SWT'. While the typist of this story is only a person who is appointed as His intermediary.

"Bi, the calligraphy must be the handwriting of Mas Zidan huh?" Nayla's voice broke the silence that was momentarily created. The clear-eyed girl asked Safa while pointing to the calligraphy she believed was Zidan's handwriting.

Safa published a smile, then she turned her neutral gaze towards the calligraphy appointed by Nayla.

"Yes, right. The calligraphy was the handwriting of Zidan. Since Zidan converted and decided to emigrate, Zidan often spent his free time writing calligraphy and deepening religious knowledge on Kyai Hidayat," Safa said while answering questions posed by Nayla.

"I'm sure, there must be many people who are interested and want to buy calligraphy-calligraphy written by Mas Zidan. In addition to neat, calligraphy written by Mas Zidan is aesthetic. It's so beautiful, like the person's personality."

"Son Nayla, do not praise Zidan too much, but praise the Divine who created him. He was the one who changed Zidan's personality, so that Zidan could turn into a young man who was good at easy (praise) as he is today."

"Yes, Bi. But not pa-pa, right if occasionally I want to praise Mas Zidan? Because Mas Zidan deserves to be praised."

"It's okay to just occasionally praise him, as long as you don't overdo it!"

Nayla responded to Safa's words by nodding slowly and pinning a line of smiles framing her pretty face.

"Yes, Bi" he said later.

Safa then guides Nayla to enter Zidan's room which is not far from the living room. Then he invited Nayla to rest in the room.

Before leaving Zidan's room, Safa asks Nayla to change her wet clothes with the robe she has provided.

As soon as Safa came out of Zidan's room, Nayla immediately locked the door, then rushed into the bathroom to change clothes.

Finished changing clothes, Nayla set herself in front of the mirror.

Time and again she praised her increasingly beautiful face with her unraveled rikma and her beautiful body clad in a white robe.

"Duh, what a beautiful future wife Mas Zidan. Guaranteed, Mas Zidan will not be satisfied if the marriage is really the same as me. But-" Nayla hangs up her words. The look on his face that had originally seemed radiant, instantly turned grim as Zidan's speech flashed in his ears.

The Prophet said, "Women are married for four reasons. It is because of her wealth, her descendants, her beauty, and her religion. Then choose a woman who is devoutly religious, surely you will be lucky.” So, beauty is not the main choice for a man to marry a woman, because beauty can fade or wither over time ....

Nayla sighed deeply, then laid her body on the bed.

"Are you, Mas Zidan wants to marry a woman like me? The woman who knew nothing of her own religion, let alone devoutly worshiped," her monologue as she stared at the ceiling of the room.

Just like Nayla, Zidan was laying her body on the bed and staring at the ceiling of the room. Precisely in Ridwan's room, one of Kyai Hidayat's students who lived in Hidayah's dormitory. Hostels provided by Kyai Hidayat for students who do not have money to rent a house or boarding house.

Zidan smiled when he remembered Nayla's speech and behavior that impressed the bars and made him amused. But the next second, he recited Istighfar, begging his Robb for forgiveness.

"Astaghfirullah, forgive your servant, O Allah. Forgive the weakness of the servant's faith."

Zidan breathed out softly. Then he went from a lying position and grabbed the prayer of the Qur'an which he placed on the nightstand.

Opened sheet by sheet of the mushaf, then the Qur'an Surah Al Mulk was chosen. Surah he always read every want to close the netra and sail to the land of dreams.

The Prophet said, "whoever reads the letter of Al Mulk every night, Allah SWT will spare him from the torment of the grave with the letter," (HR An Nasa'i).

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The voice of divine longing resounded at dawn. Waking up souls sleeping in dreamland.

Safa, who had just finished reading Surah Al Waqi'ah, immediately kept the Mushaf of the Qur'an on the table and brought her body to rise. He almost forgot to wake Nayla.

"Assalamu'alaikum, Nak Nayla." Safa said a greeting and knocked on the door of Zidan's room occupied by Nayla.

Since there was no answer from Nayla, Safa repeated it three times.

As Safa prepared to turn her heels, Zidan's door opened slowly and revealed a pillow-faced woman standing behind the door. Who else if not Nayla Arunnika, a bar-bar girl who set herself up as the future wife of Zidan Arfa Rasydhan.

"Hoammm." Nayla yawned, then rubbed her eyelids which were still filled with be-lek.

He tried to collect his life by scooping the air deeply and opening his pair of neutrals wide.

"What's up, Bi? Why did Auntie wake me up so early and have a long talk?" Nayla scouts Safa with her raspy voice typical of waking up and putting on an annoyed look.

Yes, Nayla was upset because the greeting spoken by Safa and the sound of knocking on the door made her deep sleep disturbed, so her beautiful dream ended with a hanging story.

During this time Nayla was accustomed to waking up during the day and never performing dawn prayers. Papa and his mama are too busy with worldly affairs that neither has time to wake Nayla up in the morning, let alone guide Nayla to perform the worship that a Muslim should have.

They entrust Nayla to the maids and pamper the princess with luxury. Though that was not what Nayla needed, but an outpouring of affection and guidance from them.

The KTP shows that the religion adopted by Nayla and her parents is Islam. But they never fulfill their obligations as a Muslim, especially prayer and fasting Ramadan.

Religion is just identity. Not more. So that they are never interested in learning the science of religion, let alone fulfilling the teachings that are mentioned.

The treasure that is only the divine deposit has deceived and neglected them, until they forget that life in this world is mortal and in the Hereafter is eternal life.

Back to the storyline ....

Safa breathed out softly and recited the istighfar in her heart when she heard the row of question sentences thrown by Nayla. He is not angry at Nayla and excuses the girl. Safa believes that during this time Nayla has never performed dawn prayers, maybe even other fardhu worship.

"Aibi woke Nak Nayla so that Nak Nayla to carry out his duties as a Muslim at dawn, which is to perform the 'mandatory' prayer service at dawn two rakaat." Safa answered the question posed by Nayla by emphasizing the word 'mandatory' which means it must be fulfilled and must not be abandoned. He hoped that Nayla could understand his words and rushed to take ablution water before performing the congregational dawn prayer.

"Eng .. sorry, Bi. I have never performed dawn prayers and other obligatory prayers. So, I don't know how the prayer moves and reads." Nayla spoke softly while bowing her face.

He wanted to tell Safa about his parents who never taught him religious knowledge, so he was very blind and did not know how to practice worship according to the guidance of sharia. But he still hesitated to tell it.

Safa commented a smile and stroked Nayla's rikma. Then he said in a soft tone of voice, "Bismillah, from now on Auntie will teach you how to practice worship. Aunty will introduce you to the Qur'an. The treasure passed down to us-people as a guide of life, that you may know your Lord and love him wholeheartedly without the slightest doubt, so that you keep His commandments and keep away from His prohibitions without feeling burdened or forced."

"Thank you, Bi." Nayla raised her face slowly and published a smile. He stared at Safa's face with a netra framed with glass, then grabbed Safa's body and carried her into an embrace.

"Yes, honey," said Safa. He reciprocates Nayla's embrace and anchors the kiss on Nayla's head as an expression of genuine affection flowing from the heart.

Without them noticing, there were two men watching them hugging each other. The two men were Zidan and Sadam.

The atmosphere should envelop the entire interior space and create dew points that coagulate in the eye.

Zidan immediately rubbed the dew points so as not to spill and wet his handsome face. Then he cleared his throat and said hello to divert attention. Especially the attention of Nayla and Safa, not the attention of the lizard who was fixated on staring at the handsome sculpture of his face.

Nayla and Safa immediately took off a hug, then returned a greeting that was found from Zidan's lips.

"Mas Zidan-" Nayla's vocal chords choked as Zidan's handsome face filled the viewing room. He is increasingly entangled in the charm of Zidan which currently looks plenary.

Yes, Zidan's good looks are increasing in Nayla's eyes, when the boy dream of his heart was wearing a suit of cocoa and sarongs. Plus the black peci perched on his head.

O God, what did you create this handsome creature out of?

Because so fascinated, Nayla looked at Zidan's face intensely and without blinking, to make the dream youth of his heart was wrong and turned away.

"Sounds of iqamah. Let's go to the mosque!" Sadam interrupts by listening to her baritone voice and makes Nayla wake up from enchanted mode.

After saying goodbye to Safa and Nayla, Sadam and Zidan swung a step. They walked to the Muttaqien Mosque, not far from home.

While Safa and Nayla, they rush to the bathroom to get some ablution water.

Patiently, Safa guided and taught Nayla the correct manner of ablution, and she took Nayla to the mihrab beside the back garden to perform the morning prayers.

"Allahu Akbar." For the first time Nayla said takbiratul ihram. His lips twitched, as did his body.

In his heart he cried, wept, wept, asked for the forgiveness of God, the God he had neglected.

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Sorry if there is a wrong word or scattered typo 😊🙏

- Ayuwidia