
A bunch of memories leaped into Aisha's head and after kneeling in her tahajjud and istiqarah prayers, she remembered the one name she wanted to mention among her strands of do'a, the name of a "bram".
"Yes, Allah, many things I have always predicted before Your presence, You are the One who hears every do'a of your creatures. When my eyes closed, I woke up. When all is quiet, in my night I keep talking to you. I am not ashamed to say my sorrow, my loneliness and my sorrow in the third of my night. Even my longing..my longing for.
Yes, God, my heart has never cried this, to one of your people who is now secretly stealing my mind. What is this feeling, God? Who is he that can disturb my daydream? Why is it that when he's close I feel like time is running too fast? And when he's far away, I wish he'd come looking for me?
I wake up in the third of the night, telling my load on my prayer mat. Shamelessly, I say his name before You, hoping to meet upon your permission.
What is this feeling, O God? Am I the only one feeling it or is it worth it?" Aisyah bit her own lips, she couldn't possibly tell Bram this feeling but her chest rumbled like a tide that she desperately wanted to overflow. Only in the do'a in the third of the night did he know where to spill his flavor.
In a different place, under the same sky, a man was bowed down on a pale blue prayer mat. In his hand was the exact same prayer beads.
After Istiqarah and nasuha repentance, he dissolves in his dhikr.
Various words of forgiveness were offered. And end up in a do'a for someone she misses.
"Yes, my God, Your Servant knows how unfit you are before You. It's too presumptuous of me to ask you again after my past sins. Forgive me, O God, who cheated a third of my night to ask you again in a name that is so deeply troubling to my heart. And I believe that you cannot give this feeling without purpose and reason.
If Aisha is my soul mate, draw me closer to her in Your way, then God willing, I will trust her all my life to Your Achaia. However, if my feelings for her were only one of the tests I had to go through and Aisyah was not my soul mate, show me the way to no longer think of her, lighten my mortal heart. Let me run my mandate to be his guardian, just as you have. I just want him to be happy, God. If he is happy not with me, then I will be sincere. I only want to love him after I love You, because that is O God, what is Your will then I will accept it."
Bram bowed so deeply, that do'a was spoken with trembling lips.
Never as pure as life he prayed and so resigned to mention the name of a woman. Even the name of Diah, not mentioned in his tahajjud.
Either by chance or how, these two people pray for each other at the same time, and who knows God's will for it?
Verily, Allah is all-hearing and all-knowing, man is but a shard of dust blown by the breath. When two people feel restlessness with each other then the best expression of longing, is to pray for each other, pray in silence, pray for a third of the night and pray for him in your long prostration.
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Bram had just arrived at his small office, he was busy checking reports from his newly opened cafe branch.
His head was a little heavy, he woke up late in the night and after that his eyes were open all night until dawn. Many times after his tahajjud, he opened the abah and read it.
"And for you someday,
Fall in love because you love God, not because you love his creatures and seek God...."
Poking in his head. He tried to understand and translate it. The more he thought, the more dizzy his head became.
Suddenly his phone fluttered on the table. He didn't care about it at first. But when the phone is constantly floundering because only the vibrating mode is enabled. Finally Bram grabbed it and instantly his chest became nervous instead of clogged.
"Hallo, Assalamulaikum, Ayesha?"
"Wallaikumusallam mas Bram...!" The voice sounded tense.
"What's up?" Bram asked with bated breath.
"To.please Bram, I beg you..." Now Aisyah's voice changed from trembling to like a sob.
"Save me out of this..." Whispers watered.
"Dear of it! Why you???" Bram unconsciously stood up from his seat. His jaw hardened, his breathing went up and down. His fingers tightly held the cell phone in his hand.
There were sounds of some people in Aisyah's back like they were discussing, whether female or male.
"I'll turn this call into a video call now!!!" Bram's voice rose, he was really tense.
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