Nindy (Hijabers Norak Conqueror of the Heart)

18. Sacred Covenant

"Basic fool. Why are you keeping quiet? Why don't you return the words?"

Nindy just looked down, unable to say a word. His words were stuck in the esophagus, until the clear circle dripped in the corner of the eye.

"Why can you just be chatty with me? Why do you keep quiet when they insult you?" The man again asked by showing an annoyed face.

He got a report from Lie's assistant while he was conducting an important meeting at the main company. The commotion that occurred at the tourist spot made everyone's attention centered there.

Without continuing the meeting, Yang Pou Han immediately got up from his swivel chair, leaving the dark room with everyone's astonished gazes at him. Taking control, Lie Am's assistant continued the meeting that Yang Pou Han left behind.

It took an hour to reach the tourist spot. Who had cursed when several times stuck in traffic in the middle of the road. Nindy's shadow terrorized many people with a pitiful face swirling in her head making her even more agitated.

He shouldn't have needed that much. Nindy is just an outsider who happens to be stuck in a strange relationship with her. However, his heart seemed to be unacceptable when he heard others insulting the girl blatantly in front of the crowd.

Although he often insulted Nindy, but Yang did not like it if other people insulted the girl. Quite a person who can insult Nindy, while others are not allowed.

With maximum speed he drove his car when the traffic jam had started to unravel. In his mind, he wanted to bring Nindy home immediately. Dodging the girl from the scornful gazes of those who looked down on her.

Until Yang Pou Han arrived in the area of "The Miracle Ocean Garden". He parked his car at the origin. Opening the car door, he ran then. Looking for Nindy at the place where she was assigned.

The crowd had already dispersed, with a single female trouble carrier being ordered by Yang Pou Han to hold her back. He didn't care, because until then, Nindy couldn't find it.

The man was only informed that Nindy ran after pushing the woman who had insulted him. Until the CCTV camera was played with many people deployed to capture the video on the screen, Yang Pou Han finally found out if Nindy came out of the tourist area.

He let out a rude sigh, running back to his car to look for Nindy alone. He drove his car slowly. He was sure that Nindy could not afford to run far from the tourist area. The girl may be wanting to hide from the sharp stares and scorn the people around her.

And then Yang Pou Han saw the girl sitting on the sidewalk hugging her own feet, drowning her face between her knees and body.

He breathed a sigh of relief later. I don't know why he lost such a precious person when he didn't find the strange girl in front of his eyes. It was as if something was lacking, and it was hitherto unknown to Yang Pou Han.

Running like crazy. Breaking through traffic jams by swearing a few times because of too panic. And that's all he did just because he wanted to bring Nindy home. The one smiling stupidly. Laughing at the strange behavior he didn't notice while looking for the magical girl.

And now, in front of him. Nindy looked helpless with all the pain in her chest. It made Yang Pou Han unable to accept his surrender attitude just like that.

Nindy turned her head towards Yang Pou Han, looking at the man question markingly. "So you know who I am?" Wiping away the tears with the tip of his thumb, Nindy continued her sentence. "Why do you still want to continue this marriage? Aren't I just gonna embarrass you later?"

The man was seen leaning his head against the back of the sofa, ignoring the demanding look in Nindy's eyes. Until he let out a tired sigh while saying, "Because I want to. And I don't have a definite reason why I want to do it. You don't need to know the reason, because I don't want to know."

What answer is that?

He decided to marry a woman, but did not know the underlying reason for his desire to carry out the marriage.

Nindy felt the rich man's way of thinking was very strange. Whether all rich people were like that, or just Yang Pou Han alone had a unique way of thinking.

Despite wanting to ask, Nindy revealed a smile on her injured lips, creating a whack of pain. Until he was a little hissing when the pain felt more excruciating.

"Sleep! I won't bother you anymore."

Yang Pou Han finally got up from his seat, stood up and went to enter his room.

She closed the door of her room immediately, then leaned behind her. His hand touched his chest, as if something foreign was sniffing around unexcusedly there. What is this feeling?

And with great confidence, he will finish everything tomorrow.

*******

The man looked pale with what he was facing next. The sweat sprays in the temple, although the air conditioner has been ignited in low temperature, does not make his body feel cool.

Never had he felt that big. This was the second time, the man made a sacred promise of marriage. But in a different way.

Is he capable of doing it?

It's a matter of faith, and all this time he felt he didn't know God well. Even when everything had been within his grasp, there was no beam of happiness within him.

Either he's been in the gray zone too long. It felt so faint and invisible that he was unable to discern what was right and what was wrong. Until when all he had was meaningless, because a love he had been loving had betrayed him cruelly, he decided to finish it all.

Perhaps, by following in his friend's footsteps, he could gain true happiness.

He seemed to be clearing his throat for a moment, when someone they called as the penghulu had entered the living room that had been transformed as a wedding venue.

And a white-bearded man whom they referred to as a cleric had also been invited by Yang Pou Han. Oh, naw. It was Sean Paderson who set it all up. Yang Pou Han only followed what the man said because he did not understand it at all.

Nindy and several women were already sitting cross-legged behind the veil, which was the barrier between the male guest and the female guest. Although only the closest people present, they are still separated.

Until the grasp of someone by his side made Nindy turn to the side. The woman nodded as she smiled shadyly at Nindy. Yes, it was Salwa who accompanied him by clasping her hands that were already sweating coldly.

Until a loud voice that sounded melodious in Nindy's ears, making her tears shed instantly wet her cheeks.

A two sacred sentence that could change everything in one's life had been captured beautifully in Nindy's sense of hearing.

He closed his eyes. The crystal thread that had been free-falling from the corner of his eye had proven that the man had been serious about his word.

"ASHHADU AN LAA ILAAHA ILLALLAH, WAYHADUANNA MUHAMMADAR RASUULULLAH "

Loudly and confidently the man said it. There is no regret or doubt hidden from the pronunciation of two sentences of the shahadah.

Everyone said Alhamdulillah at the same time, and so did Nindy and Salwa.

Nindy's heart grew anxious and agitated, as the long-awaited kabul event was about to begin.

Nindy stood up from behind the veil, choosing to wait in the room. He gave everything that happened to God. Yang Pou Han already knew how he was doing. He was a child born out of wedlock only to be entrusted to his mother, while the one who would marry him was a judge.

Nindy waited in the room for a long time. Did the wedding really happen? Or did Yang Pou Han just want to cancel it?

Nindy couldn't afford to ask or just peek out. He's done with everything. What is happening right now, that is the destiny that Yang Kaya has outlined for him. Nindy just tried to live it well without complaining a lot.

And the sound of a knock on the door distracted Nindy. There appeared a figure of hijab with a shady smile that always perched on his lips.

Salwa entered after getting a nod by Nindy, she stepped closer towards Nindy who was sitting on the bed. With a smile, the woman rubbed the back of Nindy's hand.

"Congratulations, Nindy. You're officially a wife."

Nindy looked down then. I don't know why it felt so good to hear the news. Though previously she wanted to be separated from Yang Pou Han, but at this time she was relieved when the man had officially become her husband. It's very strange, isn't it?

"Come, out! He's waiting for you."

Nindy seemed hesitant as she moved from her seat. Is this real?

She who is a daughter of pel@cur has been married honorably. Nindy had dreamed this, but often she threw the dream away, because it was difficult to find a man who would accept its dark origins.

But today, he proved that God loves him very much.

She was married. And now the paradise has moved, which was previously under the soles of the feet of the mother now becomes in the pleasure of the husband.

"Come, Nindy. Yang Pou Han has been waiting for you," said Salwa again who was replied by a nod by Nindy.

The two women came out with Salwa holding Nindy's arm, escorting the girl to meet her husband. A husband who has just made a promise to his Lord to be a protector, a house and a responsible wife.

Nindy sat beside Yang Pou Han, lowering her face without daring to stare. The man turned his head and observed the face of someone who had become his wife. Nindy looks elegant with a white dress, thin makeup that has never been seen on her face, now adds to the impression of beautiful and charming.

They simply fell silent without a word, until when Nindy's hand was stretched out towards Yang Pou Han, the man greeted her. And Yang Pou Han's heart was warmed when Nindy's forehead had lowered and touched the back of his hand.

There is a sense of respect by a wife when their hands touch. Until the moment his lips had been placed on Nindy's forehead, Yang Pou Han's heart was shaken as well.

She felt that the marriage she had done this time, felt so simple it was her cold heart. Back the foreign taste stubbornly broke through the deepest recesses of his heart, languishing there and not wanting to get out immediately. However, he did not understand what that taste was?

Until the voice of the cleric who had become the marriage guardian Nindy gave a suggestion, Yang Pou Han felt that all this time he had failed to become a husband. It was only fitting that her marriage was once corn-old.

"Marriage is a most noble worship with a man making a covenant to God. For when Ijab is spoken, His Throne shakes because of the weight of the covenant made by the husband before God, witnessed by angels and men."

Once the sacred sentence that had been spoken lightly on Yang Pou Han's lips, it turned out to have a very heavy dependency before God.

The cleric continued. "The sentence 'I received the marriage of fulan bint si fulan with dowry how many millions of dollars in cash paid'. Short, solid and clear. However, do you know the meaning of the 'covenant or pledge' is expressed?"

They bowed, hearing what the cleric said next.

"The implication is that I bear the sins of him (the woman who was made a wife) from his father and mother. Whatever sins he has committed. From not closing the aurat until he leaves the prayer."

"Everything related to him (the woman whom the wife made), I bear and no longer the parents who bear. And I will bear all the sins of my future children. I also realized, if I fail and I take my hands off in fulfilling the responsibility, then I am wicked, the husband of the dayus. And I know that hell is my place because finally my wife and children will pull me into hell."

"SubhanAllah .. weight of the burden borne by the husband. Doesn't it mean to ease her responsibilities that a wife must obey her husband, keep the commandments of God and stay away from His prohibitions?"

Nindy squeezed her own hand. He knows nothing about marriage. And after hearing all that, she promised to be a wife that does not make it difficult for the husband to assume responsibility in the afterlife.

The two stared at each other. Marriage without the basis of love actually has tremendous value in it. And when Nindy's lips extended a smile, she said. "Go help me become a wife who can ease your responsibilities."