Mahabbah Love Khalisa

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"Umma Umma!"

Khalisa woke up from his sleep hearing a voice calling out to him, he felt something was piercing his stomach. Khalisa blinked his eyes several times to clarify his vision. Her smile expands, finding Azka on her stomach while calling out to her. Azka's tiny hand touched Khalisa's cheek.

"Yes, Umma's up." Khalisa held Azka's body and rose from a sleeping position. "Kok Azka is awake, what time is it?" Khalisa saw a wall clock that showed at 5 a.m.

Khalisa did not see Azfan next to him, which meant that the husband had gone to the mosque. Since Khalisa was coming by the moon, Azfan did not wake him. Azka woke Khalisa.

Azka was still sleeping in her box last night but when she woke up in the middle of the night, Khalisa moved Azka to sleep with her while breastfeeding.

"Let Azka sleep again." Khalisa opened the top two buttons of his pajamas to breastfeed Azka. Because it was too early, Azka had to sleep again. If Azka's sleep deprivation will be fussy later whereas they have an event today. Khalisa and Azfan invited the orphans to pray and eat together as a form of gratitude because Azka was even one year old.

"You're so big, son." Khalisa's peaking at Azka's head. It feels like just yesterday Khalisa was pregnant with Azka, now the child has learned to walk. Khalisa did not want this time to pass soon. Khalisa did not want to miss a moment with Azka and watch her growth.

Khalisa also closed his eyes because he was still sleepy. Last night Khalisa had to overtime sew a robe for Syifa. Khalisa can work on the orders of people who know him well. Syifa will wear the robe on her fiancee's show the day after tomorrow.

The door of the room opened, Azfan stepped very slowly because he did not want to make Khalisa wake up. Azfan smiled to see Azka breastfeeding in Khalisa's lap. Azfan was surprised when Azka turned to him, he thought Azka was sleeping but it was Umma who was still asleep.

Azka stopped her breastfeeding and called out her ashes.

"Sshhhh, Umma will wake up." Azfan Brief.

Azka laughed out a hand to hold Azfan. It seems he does not want to sleep anymore and wants to play with Azfan.

Azfan carefully lifted Azka from Khalisa's lap.

"Azka want to pay Abi a salary?" Azfan laid Azka in his box and put her socks on.

Azfan took Azka to the balcony for the Quran recesses. Azfan did not forget to close the balcony door so as not to disturb Khalisa's sleep time.

"Where did we get to?" Azfan opened the 14th juice to continue his reading yesterday.

Azka also saw the mushaf in front of him, he touched and pointed at the letters as if he understood what was written there.

Azfan read taawudz then basmalah before starting the tilawah. Azka was always a henchman in Azfan's lap when his Abi was teaching. Azka seemed to like the activity and even looked forward to it every morning. Sometimes Azka would fall asleep in Azfan's lap after an hour had passed.

The sun began to peek out from behind the skyscraper. If you set your gaze to the other side, you will see a tinge of orange on the horizon before the sun rises.

The beam of light hit Khalisa's face to wake him up. Khalisa panicked when he realized Azka was neither on his lap nor beside him. Khalisa got out of bed and checked Azka's box. There aren't. Where's Azka?

"That's it." Khalisa touched his chest exhaling a sigh of relief seeing Azka in his Abi lap.

Azfan closed the mushaf after finishing one juz. He put the Qur'an on the table and saw Azka sleeping on his lap.

Khalisa opened the door connecting the room and the balcony.

"I was shocked just now that Azka wasn't there, it was here." Khalisa touched Azfan's shoulder.

"Good morning my Haura." Azfan developed a sweet smile on Khalisa, he reached out to touch Khalisa's cheek.

Khalisa humbled his body letting Azfan kiss his forehead. Khalisa's chest warmed up to hear Azfan calling her Haura— a nickname when they had no children. After Azka's presence, Azfan almost never called Khalisa Haura again. That's why Khalisa felt that something was strange when Azfan called him like that just now. A strange pleasant feeling.

"How did you sleep, baby?"

"Your voice just now." Khalisa sitting next to Azfan, he slipped his hand between Azfan's arms to get warm because the morning air was quite cold.

"Alhamdulillah." Azfan's happy that Khalisa's not a nightmare anymore. After that incident almost every night Khalisa had a nightmare about Revan. Even after Revan died, he still haunted Khalisa.

"Thank you Abi was always there for me." Khalisa kissed Azfan's back and palms. Khalisa inhaled the scent of Azfan's hand deeply.

"I'm the one who has to thank Umma for getting through this, I've only helped a little but Umma is amazing for healing that wound."

Khalisa looked at Azfan, what if there was no Azfan in his life. Even before marriage, Azfan had been a savior for Khalisa.

"Losing makes us appreciate God's gift more." Lirih Khalisa, he regretted that he was sad when he found out he was pregnant at that time. Now Khalisa learned to be more grateful and accept the destiny that God laid out for him.

"Umma is right, trials bring us one step closer to God."

They watched as the slowly rising sun provided warmth to all beings on earth.

"I wash my face and go down, Abi what would you like for breakfast?" Khalisa went from there, in fact he still wanted to sit with Azfan until the sun rose. But Khalisa remembered that if his in-laws were here, he would not feel good if he left the room too late. Although Kirana won't bother with it, but Khalisa still feels bad.

"Buy the usual chicken porridge through the front of the house, today we will be busy fearing Umma tired."

Khalisa smiled, but cooking for her husband is not the thing that makes her tired but maybe Azfan bored with home cooking.

"Where are you going?" Kirana saw Khalisa about to leave the house.

"It's going to buy chicken porridge up front, you want it too?"

"Oh, I'm cooking it." Kirana has finished cooking asem vegetables with fried tempeh and sambal terasi.

"Oh, I'm cooking."

"If Khalisa wants to eat chicken porridge is okay, I don't cook much really."

"Eh, no, ma'am." Khalisa again closed the door to buy chicken porridge, fortunately he had not called the chicken porridge seller.

Khalisa returned to the room to tell Azfan that the mother had cooked breakfast for them.

"No need to buy porridge, pity you have cooked when no one eats."

"Yes already." Azfan moved Azka into the box.

They went down to the first floor for breakfast together. Asem and sambal terasi on the dining table looks tempting making Khalisa impatient to eat it.

"I'm sorry Khalisa didn't help me cook."

"That's okay Khalisa, you're coming back for the moon so it's definitely not good stomach, want to say it's also not good, after all I helped Nadira earlier." Kirana put two pieces of tempe in Khalisa's plate and a piece of tempe in Azfan's plate.

"Mom, how can I get one Umma two." Azfan glanced at Khalisa's plate and his plate.

"Take it yourself." Kirana brought the tempe plate closer to Azfan so that the child took the tempe as he wanted.

Azfan held back a smile, look now at who is being treated like a real child. Azfan feels himself a son-in-law in front of his own mother.

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Ba'da dhuhur one by one invited guests began to arrive. The event was also attended by children who participated in the Quran memorization with Fawas and Azfan.

Levin's car is also parked in Khalisa's shop yard. Soon Rindang got out of the car while carrying Ravina.

"Assalamualaik." Leaf in through the back door.

"Waalaikumussalam, my goodness Ravina you are so full of gedenya." Khalisa pinched the cheek of the bulging Ravina. "Gendong Umma yuk." Khalisa extended his hand.

Ravina turned to Khalisa's hand. After Ravina was taken to Banyuwangi, Khalisa had never met her again which is why he was shocked when he saw Ravina just now.

"Eh play with Koko ya in the middle room." Khalisa takes Ravina to the living room to join Azka who is playing with her grandmother. "Koko, there's this beautiful sister."

Azka looked up to see Khalisa holding Ravina, he pointed at Ravina as if asking her to come down.

Khalisa lowers Ravina on the carpet with Azka.

"Can I borrow Ko's duck?" Khalisa sees Ravina taking Azka's rubber duck. "May I borrow it for a moment."

Azka nodded, although the duck was her favorite toy but she allowed Ravina to borrow it for a while.

A while later Azfan entered the middle room, because everyone was present then the event will begin soon.

"I'm taking Azka to the front." Azfan carried Azka with him to the living room.

The prayer was led by Fawas. They prayed that Azka would always be given health and grow up to be the son of a Sholeh who put love for Allah and the Messenger of Allah above all else.

Azka is the greatest gift from Allah to Khalisa and Azfan. Khalisa was shrouded in gratitude when she first found out she was pregnant. Then every day Khalisa lived with pleasure, through morning sickness and cravings that made him miss the period of pregnancy.

Khalisa and Azfan distributed parcels of food, the Qur'an and some money to the orphans who were kind enough to pray for Azka.

"God has been the son of Umma for one year." Khalisa held Azka up high and kissed her. "May Azka be a good and useful child for others."

"Papa and Mama brought Azka lo a gift." Rindang put a box, it was a gift for Azka at the age of one year.

"Well, thanks Mama Rindang and Papa Levin already brought Azka gifts, can you open them?" Khalisa dropped Azka near the box.

"By dong."

"Abi please help Azka open her card dong." Pinta Khalisa because he had to lift Azka.

Azfan opened the large box, he was also curious about its contents.

"Well, Azka got a bike." Khalisa cried after seeing the bike in the box, "xie-xie Mama Papa." Her speech.

Azka laughed excitedly at the gift even though she did not know how to ride it yet.

"Mbak Khalisa." Nadira walked up to Khalisa with a cell phone in his hand. "This is Mas Kafa's phone from earlier."

"Oh, thank you, Ma'am." Khalisa took his phone from Nadira's hand.

Azfan replaces Khalisa holding Azka.

With a single swipe Khalisa answered Kafa's phone.

"Why Kafa?"

"Ce, Mahira has a stomachache."

"Since when?"

"From this morning, I initially thought of a false contraction but said it was getting sicker, did I take it to the hospital?"

"For a minute, wait for Cece to get there now." Khalisa immediately disconnected the connection.

"What's wrong?" Tanya Rindang, Azfan and Levin together.

"Mahira stomach mules even though HPL is still next month, Bi let's go there first." Khalisa panicked when he told Kafa not to panic when Mahira began to contract. "Rindang and Ko Levin it's okay to stay."

"It's okay, we're going to Ko Levin's house, too." The arrival of Rindang and Levin to Sleman not only to give gifts to Azka, they will also visit Michael and Valerie.

Levin and Rindang often make video calls while Michael is at the hotel. Valerie never got Levin's call. Rindang hopes that his arrival with Ravina can make Valerie accept his marriage with Levin.

Khalisa leaves Azka to Kirana while he and Azfan go to Mahira's apartment.

Azka: Who is so beautiful.

Happy one year son of Umma and Abi