Picking Up the Past

Friend's Duty

Mila notices Annisa's mom explaining to her, Abel and Vanessa about the hijab issue. They sat in the living room after dawn with their chat atmosphere made as relaxed as possible so that the three women felt like chatting lightly with Annisa ma'am, Mila seriously listened to every word that came out of Annisa's mouth, she realized, She got a special task from her husband to learn from her aunt.

“hijab is a form of our obedience to Allah, because the hijab or hijab is a commandment of Allah, so whoever wears it, it means that the person obeyed the order of his Lord” said Miss Annisa who was noticed by the three women there.

“So Abel with Vannesa, if you want to obey God, one way is to wear a hijab, wear the hijab must be intended with sincerity to obey God, not just to follow friends, just to follow, not because they are told to be with their husbands, not to chase men, not just follow the trend. Wrong intentions will have no impact on our lives, so make no mistake if someone seems to close the law, but his attitude, his behavior, his actions, his actions, his words did not match his clothes” was clearly Miss Annisa again who made Mila's chest as if pierced by sharp thorns. Those words seemed to have exposed all the mistakes he had made.

“And also, for Mila and Vanessa who are already married, and Abel who is also getting married, wearing the hijab is our form of maintaining the honor of our husband, she said, because after marriage our honor will be the honor of our husband and vice versa, and also the most important is the hijab in our hearts, the first love in our lives is God and His Messenger, let us not love others more than our love for God and His Messenger, what else we love something that is not lawful for us” explained Miss Annisa again who again pierced the conscience of Mila.

‘ya Lord, I already know my mistake, but why hear the words of aunt, my heart really feels pain like this, is this heart has not completely repented to You’ Inner Mila.

“include same husband own bu?” asked Abel innocently.

“iya, do not let our love for our husband exceed our love for God and his Apostle, happiness does not come from something excessive affection, love and just love is the key to happiness, so that we can be stronger if God takes them at any time” continued Miss Annisa.

“How to bi?, how can we not love our husband more than our love for God?” asked Mila who was confused by Annisa's explanation. Miss Annisa smiled at Mila's question.

“Love your husband because of your love for God, faith is complicated baby, not just you dress covered, not just you pray on time, not just you pray tahajud every night, not only are you diligent in fasting sunnah, faith is a matter of the heart that sometimes we humans have difficulty understanding our own hearts, so it is only natural that if you see someone who is clothed and diligent in worship, but his words and actions still hurt others, because there are still many people who worship, but his intentions are still wrong, not sincere to God, not sincerely expecting the pleasure of God, the intention is in the heart, and the heart will determine the end” explained Miss Annisa again.

“do your every activity because of Allah, serve your husband with the intention of worshiping God, you will feel the feeling of love for your sincere husband because of Allah, love without God in it, love without God in it, it will be blind love that does not have a clear direction, trust everything to God, so let God take care of your husband, you do not need to be possessive, suspicious, or other attitudes, he said, simply serve your husband for the sake of Allah, and pray and surrender to Allah, let Allah guard your husband with His power” explained Miss Annisa again.

“when aunt and uncle let Arya and Tomy go back to Jakarta, we had absolutely nothing to protect them there, we only had God, son, through our prayers and belief in God, we are sure, God will protect them for us” continued Miss Annisa.

‘ya Lord, it is fitting that Arya and Tomy can behave as well as that to us, it turns out he was educated by women like this’ the inner three women.

*

The morning was quite bright, the sun was warmly hitting the capital, Irman a little late to his office after sleeping late at night. Irman stepped into the lobby of his company, as he walked leisurely past the bowed receptionist to salute him, one of the receptionists spoke in a polite tone to him,

“sorry sir, someone is looking for tak” said the receptionist.

“who?” asked Irman in a cold tone.

“people there pak” replied to the receptionist while pointing to the sofa in the lobby.

The man smiled cynically watching Irman step towards him, “sit down, our conversation will be a little long” said the man casually.

“want are you here?” irman asked in his cynical tone without heeding the offer to sit down from the man.

“do you know what time it is?, does the head of this company always come at this hour, it is worth it this company will go bankrupt, tell me, tell me, how many of your employees have you phk” taunted the man to Irman.

“know where you problem my company is?” ask Irman who does not believe if his company's rivals know his company's problems.

“because I am the mastermind behind it all,” Ari said sarcastically to Irman.

“you,,,” said Irman in disbelief.

“I did it better than you, all my company's losses on you you got the payback, now just counting the days, this company will disappear, a slightly cruel reply actually, but that's okay, now that's okay, that is much more enough for you, I want you to see my face so you know to whom you have to take revenge later” said Ari cynically.

“what are the people who work not according to the target because of your work?, what is the problem of my project in many areas it is you?, what are my debts to the unpaid bank it was you too?” irman is full of emotion.

“waww, you're smart too, but unfortunately you've only realized it now, there are still many other things from this company that are under my control, playing quietly, quietly, without any odor, he said, did I play well for this?” ari asked with a tone of ridicule.

Irman immediately got up and heard it, he pulled Ari's collar sitting up until Ari had to stand up because of the pull. Everyone who was there immediately stopped their activities and looked at their leader who was pulling Ari's collar.

“so you are the one, I will kill you, I will finish you off, you anj**g, savage, accuser-human” Irman said in an angry tone.

“actually there is something else I want to tell you,” said Ari still with his casual tone, a tone that increasingly makes Irman growled angry seeing him. Irman's jaw hardened, his eyes rounded implying the flames of his anger.

“Do you not know that your brother-in-law is my partner in my company?, does he not protect his wife's family at all until this company has to be destroyed because of the actions of his own friend?, owwh, or maybe he was also involved behind this?” said Ari who was still with a relaxed nanda.

“Arya,,” says Irman still holding back anger.

Ari then took off Irman's hand violently in his collar. “bring your sister away from my best friend's life, she is just a shame in our lives” said Ari with a tone full of emphasis, Ari said, he then left the company lobby, while Irman rubbed his face rough hearing it all, he endured the frustration and shouted loudly so that everyone who saw him immediately disperse from there. “what are you looking at? bubaarr” said Irman as loudly as possible, and the person in the lobby immediately moved away from him.

Ari stepped casually towards her car in the company of Cipta Rakarsa, she momentarily took a deep breath, ‘I have done my duty as your best friend Arya, now it is the woman's turn to do her duty as your wife, if she trusts you and stays with you, I will trust her completely, and will protect her from everyone who threatens her Ari's inner’ while telling her driver to drive her to the airport immediately.