MILLINIUM-TRENDI GENERATION FHADLAN
Episode 66

"Bummmm.. bummm" a loud explosion rang out along with the ground shaking.

"Antiterrorism specimens are deploying armored vehicles to rescue our troops" their commander said.

"Rescue forces will arrive about an hour away to get to where we are trapped, rebels are unlikely to give up, they are very strong".

"Tar tar tar tar" again a series of shots increasingly intense

"Rebel forces are again besieging their distance closer" said the commander, starting to panic.

"There's no way to escape we have to survive with the rest of the ammunition and power"

"Tar tar tar tar" back Fhadlan shot.

"Ahhh .. ahhh .. ahhhh" the three rebels who tried to approach collapsed just ten meters away from them.

"Suuuut" sounded like the sound of a flying marcon, as a hand grenade was thrown at them.

The Fhadlan reflex throws a pebble and hits the object.

"Not .. bummmmm" the hand grenade went off and exploded not far from them.

Sand scattered dust and gravel flying makes visibility becomes limited.

"It's amazing that your young man is really a hero today" the commander tapped Fhadlan on the shoulder.

More than two hours they survived, finally the rescue forces were seen in the distance, a barrage of machine guns and heavy weapons more and more heard, but not much gunfire led to them.

"Beni bring the troops to retreat, their relief forces in the support of steel thanks and heavy weapons" I heard someone in Indonesian giving command.

"Beni. they're Indonesians" thought Fhadlan.

"Mistakably they are the Balqis Empire in Indonesia" Fhadlan said.

About half an hour into the firefight between rebels and rescue forces, rescue forces managed to take them back to the city of Aden.

"Fhadlan was temporarily staying at Uncle Hamdi's house until it was safe to cross the border into Saudi Arabia" Hamdi's uncle said.

"Yes uncle" said Fhadlan briefly, indeed in his heart there is a desire to trace the whereabouts of Beni which he suspects is the same Beni as Beni who robs his necklace.

During his stay in Yemen Fhadlan was alone with uncle Hamdi, because the son and wife of uncle Hamdi had also left the city of Aden to flee to Saudi Arabia.

Fhadlan also attended madrasah school at the level of smp in Indonesia. At that time Fhadlan was in a period of searching for self-identity, the search for truth in Islam. Yemen is the right place because Islam there is still pure and sanadnya connect to the Prophet. In addition, Walisongo is also from Yemen.

"How was your school Lan" asked Hamdi's uncle one morning.

"Currently uncle, but at least in the first month Fhadlan needed a lot of adaptation, from the food education system, culture and language that is much different from Indonesia" Fhadlan replied.

"And bring all the food we have to the mosque, starting today we have breakfast and eat in the mosque" said Hamdi's uncle.

"What's uncle for?" ask Fhadlan.

"The city of Aden has started to lack food we can share with neighbors who already have no food" said Hamdi's uncle.

In the mosque seen many residents bring their food each mading, many also come not bring anything, then all the food is collected in one place or container. Then divided equally with all those present.

"Let's eat Lan's breakfast, this is the custom of Yemenis during the food crisis, all the food they have collected and then evenly divided, no matter if he brought food or not" Hamdi's uncle explained.

"Sister" decak Fhadlan amazed.

"It's only natural that in Yemen many of the guardians up to Wali Songo are from Yemen" Fhadlan thought.

Fhadlan remembered one of the hadiths taught in the school that in the end times will appear fighters of truth in Yemen even the Prophet also advocated Yemen as one of the best places for jihad after Sham.

That makes Fhadlan difficult to live in Yemen because Yemen has a different character from other Arab countries. The people are more friendly, polite and noble-hearted. Yemen and Indonesia have very strong ties.

In the past, scholars from Yemen, migrated to Indonesia to spread the religion of Islam which later became known as Wali Songo. The process of grounding Islam in the archipelago is very different from Islamization in Europe. In Cordoba for example, Islam spread using conquest/imperialism. So when the power of Islam is weak, then Islam also disappears. 

Yemeni scholars are not panatik worshipers, the most powerful is their understanding of Islam correctly and comprehensively with the tolerance and moderate attitude taught by Yemeni scholars and healers, it is suitable if applied in Indonesia.

After breakfast uncle Hamid rode the pulpit after saying his greetings.

"My brethren, since the days of the famous Yemeni friends and praised by the Prophet, at the end of the days of the Yemenis also proclaimed the Prophet as a fighter of the religion of Allah"

"We were created to serve God, we were created to practice the teachings of his religion, the core of that religion is aqidah and shariah, my brother"

"Religion is not just a matter of worship, if the worship of children can do it. But the religion also practiced its Shari'a, at its peak it established the truth and forbade my brother's immorality"

"That means we must know halal and haram, right and wrong, who is right who is wrong and must dare to defend the right, dare to prevent injustice"

"In the current situation many people think tampa dalil quran and sunah Rasulullah, so many differences and groupings, to the point of a group calling itself a mujahid but mutinied to the government"

"There are mujahid pro-democracy, there are mujahid pro-kilafah, and there are mujahid who dream of re-establishing the success of the state of Saba. They dreamed of establishing the Balqis Empire, which they claimed was in Yemen with power stretching all the way to Indonesia"

"How could they possibly claim to be Mujahid, while their funds and sophisticated weaponry came from non-Muslims, there was no shame in them claiming to be mujahid while they blocked foodstuffs for Muslims"

"There is no shame in them claiming to be mujahid while they slaughter clerics who do not agree with their wishes"

"It has been almost three months that all the food supplies for the inhabitants of the city of Aden have been intercepted by the mercenaries of the Balqis Empire, until today we still have food to share, tomorrow or next month we won't have anything to eat together".

"Brothers of faith by Allah they have prevailed zholim, let us go to them we reclaim our food supply which they have stolen" said Hamdi's fiery uncle.