Hugging Lover in Prayer

Disillusioned

...I have felt all the bitterness in life, and the most bitter thing is to hope in man...

...Ali bin Abi Thalib 🥀...

Cloudy clouds were rising above the pesantren sky. Yasmine felt even the sky could feel the sadness she was suffering from. A lump of heart had been completely broken, and Yasmine was lamenting the soul-hugging sorrow.

The day after the photo was sent to him, Yahya was found. What you see in the photo is true. Yahya was holding a baby, with a woman believed to be the mother of the baby.

"I'm sorry we. We did not know that our son had married secretly, he even disappeared to accompany his wife to give birth" Yahya said. Armed with courage, and a sense of shame that undermines his pride, at least the Father is wiser than Yahya. The man lost the courage just to meet Yasmine and the family.

Without calling Yasmine home, her father came to the boarding house and spoke heart to the princess. Both in the courtyard of Al-Jannah Mosque, the father and son told a story under a gray sky.

"By being forced, Dad came to ask for an engagement ring from Yahya" it felt heavy to convey that. Moreover, seeing the fingers of the princess clasped tightly, as if reluctant to release the sign of her ownership.

"Son" call the father, gently.

"Yasmine is about to graduate Dad. It feels like Yasmine is embarrassed if she has to return to our residence, while Yasmine's former husband-to-be is also in the village. With her little family" Yasmine said in a trembling voice.

It was so hard just to swallow the saliva, the father thought about it. Desas desus wedding plan of the princess and the son of her business partner has spread throughout the village, the fact that Yahya married another woman and brought her small family to their village, would be the lips of the community.

"Father, Yasmine is not ready to return home" the beautiful bead appears red, with tear bags ready to wet both cheeks.

Swiping the top of the head wrapped in a gray hood, in line with the sky above"Let's think again. Now I'm asking for the ring."

Taking off the mark on the ring finger, the tears finally spilled. Had he rejected Yahya's proposal from the beginning, this would not have happened to him. If, from the beginning he received Enda's proposal, maybe now he was gulping at the sweetness of love.

After handing over the ring, Yasmine's cheeks were pulled by the father"Dad's son did not cry again. We're still lucky, the rot was exposed before you got married. Imagine if this is only discovered when you have become his wife, what is our fate?."

"Naudzubillah!!, Yasmine did not want to imagine Dad!" exclaim this girl with a stifled voice.

"Well, therefore stop these tears. You're too precious to cry for a man like him." The father's advice made Yasmine immediately wipe away the tears. This girl tried to smile back.

"Beautiful Father's son, you will surely meet a much better young man than Yahya. Forgive me Mom and Dad for taking you down the wrong path." The regret always comes at the end of the story, just like Yasmine, the father was sorry for missing the opportunity to become a family with Kyai Bahi.

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Hearing the Adhan reverberate, Salwa increasingly felt the longing for the village of his birthplace. Having put on a mukena, Salwa and her mother walked to the next village. Being at the end of the village makes the distance that must be traveled to the next village closer. On the way Salwa again asked about the debts of the father.

"Sorry Salwa, I'm the same father didn't tell me. That's a long debt, Hanif's tuition fees are not small" said the mother. Inevitably the burden must be known by the princess. Often receive monthly money from the daughter-in-law, of course, the mother felt ashamed that the obligations in the Government Bank were neglected. However, in addition to financing Hanif's college admission, they also split the loan money to develop their garden. Had experienced a drastic price decline, business capital was eroded drastically. Until both parents Salwa overwhelmed to pay the installment.

"Three million per month" said Mother when Salwa asked the nominal installment.

"Ten months son, Dad and Mom took out a three-year loan."

Given the price of palm oil is not as good as before, of course they are overwhelmed to pay the loan. While the monthly money from Randy is only enough for daily needs and is more focused on Hanif's tuition, which has already entered a private university. Imagine that he is separated from Randy, then the monthly money for his family will be lost. So, what is their fate?. Letting the land that is a guarantee be confiscated?? Salwa shook her head thinking about it.

When he arrived at the Mosque, Salwa and Mother worship solemnly. The atmosphere there made Salwa forget for a moment the new burden on the mind. They chose to wait for Isya's time there, while talking to the surrounding residents in the front stall.

"In the meantime Isya, let's go back to the Mosque" Mother asked Salwa.

"Yes, Mom."

Not only them, other villagers close to the village also often spend time there while waiting for Isya time.

Until the time of Isya prayer"Jun!! you are the Adhan yes" exclaimed a man known to Ustadz by Mother Salwa.

"My throat is no longer comfortable Mr. Ustadz" said the young man he called.

"Come, a lot of people miss your voice." The words of Mr. Ustadz in the nod of the men around them.

"Yes" taking the glass bottled mineral water, the young man washed his throat before chanting the Adhan.

Salwa's mother, who had noticed the young man, had a lip. Still fresh in his memory how the young man came home from their residence, because his proposal was rejected by the princess. So far Salwa started telling me how Randy refused to have children with her. This leads to guesses, is the life of his daughter okay with the man?. If----.

"Akh!!, although a man as good as Nak Arjuna failed to become my daughter-in-law, at least Salwa was happy to live with his chosen man" the mother's inner self.

"God, how sweet Mom. Who is Adhan?."

Salwa's question made my mother's tongue mute, there was no way she could have said that it was the voice of the man she had rejected.

"Young villagers here, he is often part of the Adhan ration" said Mother. True also, although the city children but Arjuna chose to live in a beautiful village here. If you have settled here it means he has become a local, right?!.

"Well, his voice alone made a big heart. What about the person" Salwa said again. It was obvious that the princess liked the voice that the young man had.

"Already, let's pray" said Mother distract Salwa. Luckily Arjuna just came during Isya prayer, if since then maybe they will meet, and the atmosphere will definitely be awkward.

To be continued...

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Greetings to the children of Borneo.