The Love of the Sinner

CHAPTER 12. Slander

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CHAPTER 12

      The arrival of Aulia to ndalem pleased Kiai Akbar and Nyai Khadijah. Likewise with Annisa, her sister Fathir who is the same age as Aulia. 

"Here eat with me!" take Annisa after Aulia handed over the cassava to Grandma Halimah.

"I'm fasting again, Ning," Aulia replied.

"You are so diligent in fasting. Every play here must be fasting," said Annisa while sullen-faced.

"I owe a lot of fasting during Ramadan" said Aulia shyly.

"Tomorrow, aren't you?" ask Annisa.

"God willing, Ning" replied Aulia.

"good. I'm taking you to the mall. Follow me shopping for clothes, and then we'll have some food after that" whispered Annisa.

"I have to get permission from Grandpa and Grandma. If they give me permission, I'll drop off. However, if it is not given permission I will not come," Aulia replied.

"If you are not given permission, then I will ask myself the same Ustadz Yusuf and Ustadzah Halimah" Annisa said.

     Annisa is the youngest child of Kiai Akbar and Nyai Khodijah. People called him Ning Annisa. He and Aulia used to be instantly befriended the first time they met. Aulia when together with Annisa felt her teenage soul back. Like to joke and talk about the latest things that are frenzied among young people today. The intelligent Aulia also often helps Annisa if she does not understand the lessons on her campus. Even Aulia also read all the books of lecture materials belonging to Annisa, who majored in sharia economics. Not much different from the college majors that were in demand by Aulia first, business management.

"Lia, if so take this, eat it to open later, yes," Annisa gave one chocolate bar.

"Thank you, Ning," said Aulia.

"Lia," call Fathir softly. She envied her sister who was given permission to call her little name Aulia. She also wanted to be a special person for the pastel pink glamis.

"Gus Fathir called me?" asked Aulia because there was someone who called her even though it was faint.

"Yes, I want to leave this for Ustadz Yusuf" said Fathir handing Aulia a cooler bag.

"Thank you, Gus. May this goodness of Gus, obtain the reward of Allah's side" said Aulia. His eyes narrowed in a sign that he was smiling.

"Just apply, lamar," whispered Annisa to her second brother, grinning.

     Fathir just snorted and pinched his sister's cheek. She smiled happily as her sister complained of pain.

"Stabbing someone else just knew the taste," Annisa grumbled as she rubbed her cheeks that had been pierced with her feet.

"Basar sister has no feeling," hissed Fafhir again pinched his two cheeks until his screams were dramatic.

"Remember Mas Fathir, if we can zolimize our brothers" Annisa said.

"When do I zolimize you?" asked Fathir with his flat face.

"What should it be? Mas Fathir pinched my cheek a few times and it hurt, "Anisa replied while putting on a mistreated face.

    Aulia looked at the two sisters with a smile. I don't know what is now the subject of their quarrel. However, it was clearly the affection of the two as brothers. Although they often tease and tease each other. Aulia who had never had a brother, had never done anything like that.

"Aulia, the first Sunday of the month will be held in the Grand Mosque of Ar-Rahman. Do you want to come?" ask Nyai Khadijah.

"Insha Allah, if given permission by Grandpa Joseph and Grandma Halimah. I want to come, Miss Nyai," replied Aulia.

"If you come along, I'll come too" Annisa said.

"You are nothing to be with Aulia" grumbled Fathir.

"Yes, too" Fathir replied in a whisper as well.

"You two, why are you whispering like that?" nyai Khadijah looked at her two children.

"Ummi, just want to know the affairs of the young people," replied Annisa while raising her eyebrows and making the wife of the leader of Pesantren Al-Ikhlas laugh.

'So fight. Now get along. They were very strange, Aulia's inner being, but her lips extended a smile.

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     Aulia went home on foot, she refused when Fathir would take her. While Annisa she can not deliver because she was defecating, when Aulia permission to go home.

"Aulia, where's it going?" asked Mang Jalil who was riding his motorcycle.

"From ndalem, Mang," replied Aulia.

"You come along. Our house is close together," asked Mang Jalil.

"It doesn't matter, Mang. Thank you for the offer," Aulia replied as she cupped her hands together on the chest.

"Yes, I've gone home first. Assalamu'alaikum," said Mang Jalil whose house was blocked from one house from Grandpa Yusuf's house.

"Wa'alaikumsalam," replied Aulia.

     Without Aulia guessing when she just got home. There were some people gathered at Grandfather Joseph's house.

"What's this?" aulia asked with a surprised face.

"Well, here it is, the guy! Women seduce men's husbands!" bentak Bi Imamah, his wife Mang Jalil.

"What's up, Bi?" aulia asked not understanding.

"Don't pretend not to understand you, Aulia!" one of the people who gathered there.

"I don't understand what the problem is, Bi Imamah. What's the matter exactly?" aulia asked the woman who was looking at her fiercely.

"Son, they came here, he said he saw you teasing Mang Jalil on the street," replied Grandma Halimah.

"Astaghfirullahal. That's not true, Grandma. By God, I've never done that!" peekkik Aulia's.

"Don't lie to you!" snapped residents.

"Yes. The city woman likes to tease people's husbands" said Ms Sumi, whose house is next to Abah's. The middle-aged woman liked to interfere in the affairs of others.

"Sumy! You don't equally say that city women do that. Many of the town's women were sholeha women. You have dzolim to your brethren. Wrong is your husband tempted by Juliana, so he married again," refuted Grandma Halimah and the woman named Sumi was silent.

"What Ustadzah Halimah said is true. But, Aulia was also no different from Juliana. Likes to tempt people's husbands to be married by him," said Bi Imamah.

     Aulia's heart felt pain because it had returned in slander like this. He never had any intention of teasing a man let alone a man's husband. Even during this time he tried to maintain distance and interaction with men. However, there are still events like this.

"What's this about? Why are so many people gathered here?" ask Grandpa Yusuf who just came home from filling up his studies in the next village.

"This is Mr. Ustadz Yusuf, someone saw Aulia teasing my husband on the side of the road. Not just one person who saw them, so I came here, asking Aulia not to do such cheap things," Bi Imamah replied.

"Aulia, what really happened?" ask Grandpa Yusuf.

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Who has spread slander? What about Aulia's next story?