
The next few days have already started the month of Ramadan. Akhri who had just received a phone call from his manager immediately smiled wryly.
This was the third time, his tausyiah schedule was canceled by the event committee for various reasons. Although not all, there is still something that goes according to agreement. But he realized from the bad rumors that spread it made his work also affected.
In fact, until this moment there are still many DMs that enter, the contents of scorn and insults. Because the more here, public opinion about Akhri's bad husband increasingly popped up.
To the extent that Akhri himself had several times to provide clarification, about the truth if Maryam Chwa was his first ex-wife first. But what happens is not like what people think. Not to forget also the apology in his written carefully, giving an explanation that even ended in accusations for him who was defending himself.
O God, when does this wave recede?
Akhri sighed, tired of holding back the onslaught of blasphemy. Although it has tried not to respond, but the more here it actually leads to endless slanders. Accusing Akhri as Ustadz who likes to marry his own santri and so forth. Some people have even reported it to the police because for him it has entered defamation.
For a moment she remembered DM Maryam one day before her wedding. A power that made him feel even more sorry for letting go first.
[Assalamualaikum Ustad..
Sorry, I sent DM this doesn't mean anything. Just wanted to ask Ustadz Akhri not to give any more clarifications.
It will not directly extinguish the heat of the news. I hope Ustadz always remembers, that we are in the presence of people who do not like even our actions like angels so they will still blaspheme, but different from those who really sincerely love Antum, he said, then they will not be affected by thousands of bad news about Antum.
Focus on getting better, people will only highlight our ugliness. But Allah SWT is the best judge of his creatures. May Ustadz and his family always be given strength in the midst of the shock of this problem.]
At that time he could only reply to his words with a word of thanks, a little apology, and not to forget also, pinning congratulations and the best prayer for him who wants to get married tomorrow.
Umm Salma knocked on her room and went in and approached Akhri who had not returned to his own home for several weeks.
"Akhri, when will you be angry with Nia? Ummi realized Nia was wrong, but anyway you can't be like this. The fall of sin..."
The man sighed, his gaze unchanged. It was empty leading out the window.
"Ummi, will the end ask? In the past, did Abah nudut Ummi have children?" Suddenly asked. Ummi was silent while looking down. "Are grandmothers the same, suing Ummi?"
"They never shut down Ummi. But Abah's polygamy, it happened before you were born."
"What is the cause because Ummi has no children?" Akhri's eyes condensed, his speech sounding soft and raucous.
Feelings in the heart want to also blame, and regret the attitude of Ummi first on Maryam. But his faith restrained his anger. After all, Ummi was his mother whom He needed to respect, and He feared.
"No, it's not that." Ummi wiped her tears.
"What is the reason Abah is polygamous?" He still looked towards the glass wall.
"The woman was in a match with her great teacher Abah. Because of the orphans, it was the widow of his friend Abah whose son was four. That's what ummi knows. Be Abah married to Him, when the marriage of Ummi and Abah entered the age of nine years of marriage."
"The second, I don't know for sure. Because as far as Ummi knows, the woman was still a girl. The one Abah married three years after the second. Is the son of an acquaintance of Abah."
Akhri turned towards his Ummi. "Then how did Ummi feel, at that time?"
Ummi was silent, looking at the face that was looking at him with disappointment.
"It hurts, doesn't accept, and is completely disappointed in you. But what can Ummi do? Ummi couldn't possibly stand against Abah's decision."
"That's also what Maryam might have felt. She is sick, every night crying because of Me, Mi–" Akhri again slapped the wall with the look of his sad eyes.
"Ummi lamented that." murmured Umm Salma.
"Time can't be turned around, only with our regrets, Mi." Akhri squeezed the clothes on his own chest. While Ummi immediately rubbed his son's arm while shedding tears. "Akhri married Nia for what? Not to lose the woman Akhri really loved. The kid? Indeed Akhri wanted it, but this heart actually wanted a child born from the womb of Maryam, not another woman. While Maryam wants Ummi to be happy. She whines every night Mi, asking me to get married again. But I was a fool for finally losing to his persuasion, which made me like this."
For a moment Ummi remembered everything, what He did was a little forcing, just because of the mutual desire to give grandchildren to her husband. It destroys the happiness of his own son.
"And Merr now belongs to someone else, Mi..." Akhri cried, he patted his own chest. "From me I've become another man's angel..."
"Ummi's sorry, Akhri. It was all Ummi's fault... Ummi admitted it." Umm Salma hugged her son's body. It was as if Maryam's marriage had her back to the ground. Maybe even the blow this time was heavier than the breakup.
"Akhri endured this desire of feeling. For fear of sin, he is no longer my lawful. No, Mi. But Akhri has not been sincere until this moment to lose Him. Vallahi... Wallahi Ummi."
"Istighfar, Akhri.your fast will be broken if you are like this." Ummi patted slowly on his shaking back. He also cried as much as he could see Akhri's endless feelings of destruction. "I'm sorry... Ummi apologized, all because Ummi had thought short. Just look at Ummi and hope Maryam will be able to be like Ummi. Which over time Ummi's heart healed because it finally had you, in the first year after the third marriage Abahmu."
Akhri. "But the big problem is that Nia is not like my other two Ummi stepsisters, Mi. They respect Ummi, do not even dare to invite Ummi to talk. Nia was part of my farewell to him. That's what I just found out after Maryam filed for Akhri's divorce."
Umm Salma wiped her own tears, she was truly sorry.
"Akhri want to ask? All this time the impression of Maryam in Ummi's mind how? She's a gentle loving woman, isn't she?" Ask Akhri again, making Ummi Salma nod. Because indeed, Maryam's attitude is much more polite than Nia who sometimes shows a bad attitude. "Akhri can't stand him anymore..."
Ummi Salma's eyes are rounded. "Akhri, are you really?"
"Today I'll see you, Nia. I'll take her to Ustadz Hamid's house, then drop a talaq for her in front of her brother."
"Akhris...! Think again, your children are small. Again, this problem is not finished. If Nia wrote the macem again in her post how? It is also the month of Ramadan Akhri, it is illegal to drop talaq on the wife!"
Akhri sighed, he did not answer just choosing to get up from his bed, grabbed a towel and went into the bathroom. Ummi Salma was increasingly confused by this problem, he was also furious at Nia even had time to scold him too.
But indeed the woman has a hard heart, unlike Maryam who if being reprimanded will be silent. Nia defended herself more, even as if what she did was not entirely wrong. Because what he wrote is true. Akhri always hurt him with his attitude that has not been able to move on from the former.