
He fell silent, remembering two verses in Hud's letter he read last night. Until both eyes cut into the river.
"Ji, you know between rich, poor, well-to-do, lack, ease, difficulty even all the misfortunes from the smallest to the greatest. Not everything is measured because of someone's worship?" said Ustadz Irsyad, Aji himself mustered while looking down politely. "That's wisdom, Ji. There is no connection between worship and the world, let alone disaster..."
"Astagfirullah. Yes Kyai."
"You may be angry, may be disappointed with the provisions or destiny of your life at this time. But do not make you think that Allah SWT does not love you. We are true fools. We think that God's love for His servant will be the same as his love for his fellow creatures. No, Ji actually."
Aji sighed, still listening more.
"The world is like a mosquito wing. Not worth at all...! So why does Allah SWT love His beloved servant something that has no value? so you don't think your worship will make you rich in the world. The formula is not so–"
"Astagfirullah al'azim, but my heart is rich still not accept, Kyai. Especially wife. However, we are used to living well. Now it must be nosediving misery in the blink of an eye like this. Not to mention already approaching Lebaran Kyai?"
"Yes, I understand how you feel, Ji. But you must try to be calm, patient, and confident. Lower your level a little. It may be heavy at the beginning but over time you and your family will get used to it. Here the role of a leader like you must be a reinforcement for your family members. Especially a wife, because the biggest test of a wife is when her partner is in a state of slump. As much as possible give Him faith, Ji."
Aji was dumbstruck, like thinking about something related to his wife.
"It's just that, if I can be honest I'm jealous of you."
"They're with me?" Aji's forehead wrinkled not understanding. Ustadz Irsyad immediately nodded.
"Yes! I'm envious. You can be so strong that you worship. Your faith is far above me until Allah SWT gives a test like this, and its degree rises above me."
"It's impossible, Kyai." Aji smiled a little and then shook her head.
"He's just fine, Ji."
"Aamiin, MashaAllah." he murmured softly.
"I'm also worried about myself. You can be given a disaster of this magnitude, while I?" Ustadz Irsyad went back into a deep sigh after it blew it away. "As long as I live to this day, I have never felt the strange life let alone the lack of money. Because from childhood even though my father and mother educate with simplicity? But I can still feel the taste of food. Especially after I went to college and worked as a teacher. I've never been less money, Ji. All feel slab-only. I fear that all the good I have done has been repaid in the world. And in the afterlife? Nauzubillah, I became a loser, ", Ustadz Irsyad said, making Aji pensively muttered Istighfar.
"You should feel grateful when you have a big test like this. Because Allah SWT knows you can live it with a big heart. It's all gonna pass, Ji. There is good wisdom...."
"But when is Kyai? The fate of my household even so not okay as a result of me who can not meet the needs of the wife and children, not to mention the increasingly swollen debt," Aji sighed, sighed, holding back the crying that was urgent about to come out.
Ustadz Irsyad rubbed his shoulders slowly, "until when is the affair of Allah SWT. What is clear now is that one thing and plant it in your heart, that the help of God is near. Know the meaning of this verse, Wa wa jadaka daal lan fahada?"
Aji paused for a moment to remember, "and He found you a confused person, and then He gave a hint, "he replied hesitantly.
"Wa wa jadaka 'aa-ilan fa aghnaa?" Connect Ustadz Irsyad.
"Fa inna ma'al usri yusra, Inna ma'al 'usri yusra...?"
"Then in fact with difficulty there is ease, actually with difficulty there is ease." The tears of the man before Ustadz Irsyad instantly flowed down his cheeks. "Yes Rabb... Yes Rabb... Allah Akbar...!"
Ustadz Irsyad grabbed the body of a man in front of him. His shoulders shook, his cries broke, his lips continued to exclaim mentioning Tawhid's sentence nonstop.
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A few minutes later...
After muffling her cries, along with the heart that began to calm Aji began to be able to control his emotions.
"I'm relieved now, Kyai," said with a faint smile.
"Thank God, all because of Allah SWT. Is not the first aid of Allah SWT in the form of a spacious heart? May Allah SWT always stretch out your chest, Ji."
"Aamiin, Aamiin yes rabbal alamin."
Both of them were silent for a moment... "By the way, there's no water, Ji?"
"Water?" Aji scrunched his forehead. "Water for what, Kyai?"
"Anyways there is sustenance to wet my esophagus. This dry rada sport abis..has been so in the old chat so more dry." ustadz Irsyad spoke while touching his neck gave the code.
"Allahu Akbar..." Aji laughs. "Afwan Kyai, I'm so sorry. I'll take a drink first."
"Yes there..." Ustadz Irsyad also laughed when he saw his ex-santri. "Ji, don't you want to be cold or hot?"
Aji, who was about to go inside, approached with a chuckle, and then sat politely next to Ustadz Irsyad, "warm or cold, Kyai?"
"I'm a guest but I don't know myself, do I?" Ledek Ustadz Irsyad made Aji scratch his head while laughing. "It's white water..."
"Astagfirullah al'azim.. Is this really white water, Kyai?"
"Yes, white water. Even if the lecture for tens or even hundreds of pilgrims like to be available in four types of drinking water," his god makes Aji even more unwell. "Joking, Ji."
"Yes Kyai. permission to enter first take drinking water," Aji still laughed while shaking his head, entering the inside of his house.