The Angel Behind the Veil

If Arya was a Muslim

Cantika is still alive today. He couldn't yet digest what was happening.

"A.. dad? You said my father's father?" Ask Cantika.

"Yes, son, if you don't believe me, let's go home and I'll show you something." Said Mr. Rohim.

"The house's been seized by the bank, something? what is an old book?" Ask Cantika.

"Yes, the book is dark blue. It tells the story of your father and mother"

"I've read it, I found it when I was 15 years old and since then I've been studying Islam out of curiosity why I prefer Islam over women as good as Mom. But after studying Islam I understood that Islam was priceless and from then on I embraced Islam secretly."

"Silently?"

"If you don't want to follow Islam for Dad's sake then I'm sure you will also forbid me to embrace Islam. So one day I lied to Mom that my face was damaged by a sharp object and I covered it up in shame to see anyone including Mom, so Mom and everyone thought my face was deformed."

"So you closed the aurat on the grounds that your face was broken? subhanallah, what a struggle you have, son. Until you are willing to be humiliated with a ugly face to close your aura." Mr. Rohim is very proud and touched by Cantika.

"But I'm so sorry for lying to Mom for the rest of her life. Had I been honest with Mother and tried to teach her about the beauty of Islam, perhaps she would have been without the creed at the end of her breath." Cantika felt very guilty for her mother. He felt like he had failed as a child to lead his own mother into the path of God.

"It's not your fault, son, maybe it's your mother's destiny."

Finished praying for Cantika's mother, Mr. Tohim continued to drive Cantika home to Arya.

Cantika talked a lot about Arya to Mr. Rohim.

"He's a very nice guy, can you meet him?"

Cantika was worried that before she met her father, she promised herself that she would be honest with Arya when she found her father. But now that he was very afraid, what if Arya stayed away from him after knowing Cantika was a Muslim and had been lying to him all this time. He remembered how much Arya had hoped to do when she took him to the hospital for plastic surgery. What Arya can forgive him after knowing Cantika's face is fine.

"Why can't you meet Arya? it doesn't matter I'm not forcing."

"No Dad, that's not the problem. Arya is like everyone else who thinks my face is broken and she's a non-Muslim. If he knew I was a Muslim, and he had been lying to him all this time, would he hate me? I can't lose Arya Father she's been everything to me all this time."

"Do you love her?" Mr. Rohim did not just ask, he could see there was something in Cantika's eyes when talking about Arya.

Cantika was surprised by Mr. Rohim's question, he did not answer but asked in his heart what he loved Arya?

"Not the story of Father and Mother should he not repeat." Think Cantika.

"No Dad, he's my best friend so I don't want to lose him. But will religious differences destroy our friendship?"

"Islam does not forbid us to be friends with non-Islam but other stories if we love. Households are unlikely to be able to go well if the beliefs between the couples are different. Just like your father and mother, even though we love each other, Islam does not justify interfaith marriage."

Cantika felt her heart ache at this moment. I don't know why but he keeps telling. If only Arya were a Muslim.