Rafa and Ara

Episode 16's

...Happy Reading's....

When they entered, Azzan dzuhur sounded. They immediately prepare, then do the congregational prayer dzuhur led by Imah mbok children who have Akil returned and have understood the reading and prayer pillars. His name is 16-year-old tito sitting in the 1st grade High School in the village.

6 Months ago, Ara used her parents' empty house to become an Orphanage. The idea came about when he met a poor and unlucky kid on the street. Every time he went to college and came home from the cafe, he saw that the boy had no place to live and slept on the streets and colonnades of the bridge. Some become beggars, street buskers, some even pickpocket. All that work they do for the sake of filling their empty stomach.

Even Ara found two children crying under the bridge for starving. They don't have parents.

Ara's social soul thrashed, sorrowfully crying, her heart stirred. Ara sought information about the status of the child in the surrounding community. He found out they were indeed abandoned children and orphans.

Feeling that no one had the child, Ara took them to live in her house.

The age of the child ranges from 5 years to 8 years. The number when Ara picked them was 8. Now it has grown to 14. Six women and 8 men.

In addition to providing shelter, Ara also provides food and buys decent clothes for them.

Ara also bought three Qur'an and Iqro books for them to use to learn to teach.

Ara house that is not large has one small living room measuring 5 x 5 meters, three rooms each measuring

4 X 4 m, 2 rooms in girls, 1 room in boys. But because of the clinging, some boys sleep in the prayer room.

There is also a middle-sized room

5 X 7 meters are used for congregational prayer and teaching. Behind there is a kitchen and bathroom. And to serve and take care of the child, Ara entrusted him with Mbok Imah. A widow whose life is hard and who has two children. Living in an old hut. Mbok Imah is among the poor who with all his struggles trying to send school to his two children, Tito and Tina who are now in the 1st grade of High School and 2nd grade of Junior High School.

Ara's offer and invitation to stay at her house and be a nanny for the poor child made Mbok Imah very happy and grateful. Because it is their hut that is no longer worth living in. Mbok Imah's job is just a laundry worker.

Now that they had stayed in Ara's house with the child, they were not wet when it rained, and did not starve again when the rice ran out.

Ara assigned them to look after, nurture and serve the poor child. Tito taught them to read and write with Tina's help when they both came home from school. Mbok Imah taught them to read the Quran.

Ara herself in meeting the needs of the boy sold his father's old motorcycle.

After the money from the sale of her father's motorbike ran out, Ara dismantled the contents of her savings that she had been saving since sitting in high school and from the results of working at the cafe.

Now the money is running low. Ara began to think about finding a donor for the boy. Not just to feed them, but to educate them.

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After completing the work of praying zhuhur congregation, they teach together. Ara was very happy because some of them had finished iqro in just 3 months under the guidance of Tito and mbok Imah. The boy is now in

Qur'an. Ara promised to buy them the Qur'an and the Mushaf and the storybook on Islam.

Ara pilgrimage to the tomb of his mother's father who was behind the house. His parents' grave looks CLEAN because Tito diligently cleans it. At the back of the house it appears to grow also banana trees, cassava, tomatoes, chili and other live dispensary plants planted by Tito assisted by children. Ara was very happy and grateful to see the spirit of the child's life. He prayed that there would be a benefactor who would set aside some of their wealth for the unlucky child.

At four o'clock in the afternoon he returned home.

Seriate.