My best friend, Maduku
Amanah Abah Kyai

"Mas." Alsya looked at her husband's face.

"I'm sorry, honey, I really have to go." Aly stroked the soft cheek of Alsya.

"But Aly promised to be home until next month ?." Alsya is not willing to be left behind. Alsya pierced her husband's body very tightly.

Aly repeatedly lands her kiss on Alsya's head. "God willing, we will be home soon if Abah Kyai's mandate is completed." Aly said as her hand gently rubbed Alsya's back.

Alsya raised her head. "Promise ?."

"God willing."

"No, I have to promise !."

Aly sighed then smiled with both hands framing Alsya's face. "Yes, I promise." Her speech.

Alsya smiled at her husband's words. Once again she tightly hugged Aly's body before her husband actually set off.

"Yes, we're going first. Later mas will often ngabarin you." Aly broke her embrace. "So she's fine, baby." Say Aly again while gently rubbing the stomach of Alsya who has now buried her baby there.

"Yes, my mom."

"Mas departs yes, assalamualaikum..." Said Aly and once again kissed Alsya's forehead.

"Waalaikumsalam, be careful on the road."

Aly nodded and smiled then entered the car that would take him to the boarding school.

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The atmosphere of the pesantren looks very crowded. Then the santri putra and santri putri look uncontrollable. "Kang Ahmad, children why on such a slave ?." Aly asked her friend who was driving the car.

"Maybe they'll roll out the istighosah, kang." Answer kang Ahmad who is still focused on driving so that the speed of his car does not hit the santri-santri who are wandering in the area of the road to the family home Abah Kyai.

"Astaghfirullah's... Is Abah getting worse ?!." Aly asked worriedly.

"Lacking the tau, kang. Right now when I was told ***** kang Aly, Abah is still not too severe condition." Answer kang Ahmad who was equally panicked.

The car stopped in the yard of the house of the cottage babysitter. Aly and Ahmad immediately entered the house which saw a lot of senior students were passing in and out of the house.

The two newly arrived khodam were increasingly panicked when they heard loudspeakers were giving directions for the event to be held immediately.

"Assynoltom..." Aly said as she entered Abah Kyai's room.

"Greetings waalaikum..." Everyone there answered his greetings together.

Aly was alone, because Ahmad did not dare to enter the room without an order.

Aly who had been agitated when she was told of the state of the teacher, also required her to leave immediately at my own request, kyai, now immediately bend the knee to walk closer to the body of the teacher who was lying weakly on his bed.

Despite being in pain, Aly saw the face of the teacher was smiling to welcome his arrival. "Assalamualaikum, Abah..." Aly said and then greeted Abah Kyai's hand with great solemnity.

"Cari..." The voice sounded very soft, making anyone who heard it as if they were experiencing the pain that the teacher was experiencing. Plus, the sound of sobbing issued by Ning Halimah also ummi nyai, making the atmosphere even more blue.

"Yes, Abah, Aly came to fulfill Abah's call."

Isak's voice cries ummi nyai and Ning Halimah increasingly become-so when the state of Abah Kyai gets worse. Abah Kyai even looks difficult to breathe properly.

"Came... Abah. tipped Imah..." Abah Kyai said in a stammering voice.

Aly and Ning Halimah instantly stared at each other. They do not not understand the request of Abah Kyai, even they are very understanding.

"Change... Kang Aly already has a wife, bah..." Ning Halimah was more and more unwilling to beg her Abah not to give such trust. Ning Halimah hit the weak body of the first man in her life. "Change..."

Abah Kyai's weak hand was raised and ended up on Ning Halimah's head then rubbed it gently. "Change love with Home... Abah could not leave Imah if Imah had not found a replacement for Abah..." Abah said with a loud breath.

"Change..." Ning Halimah's crying was getting hysterical.

"God willing, I can accept Abah's trust..." Aly said sure.

"Ning, Abah's trust is an order. Please, I'll explain it to Alsya." Said Aly trying to give understanding to Ning Halimah.

Ning Halimah shook her head strongly. He still does not want to accept his own mandate, although maybe it is also a will, given Abah's deteriorating situation.

"Imah... Abah asked Imah to obey Abah's last command..." Abah Kyai looked expectantly at his daughter.

"Change..." Ning Halimah's speech did not continue because the hunt was interrupted by Aly's call.

"Sir."

Ning Halimah took a deep breath then exhaled slowly. Ning Halimah finally nodded her head resignedly. "Yes, Abah... Accept Abah's wish..." Said forced.

Abah Kyai immediately published his smile and turned to one of the ustadz in his boarding school. "Jefryn..." Call her.

"Yes, Abah." Ustad Jefri approached because he understood what Abah Kyai meant.

When he reached Abah Kyai, Ustadz Jefri demanded Abah Kyai's hand to shake hands with Aly.

"Astaghfirullah's... Bismilbornrahmanirrahim's... Ankahtuka wa zawwajtuka makhtubataka bint Halimah Az-Zahra 'alal mahril..." Abah stopped her recitation and turned her head towards Aly.

"Ten grams of gold, payable first." Aly said firmly without the slightest hesitation.

Abah Kyai smiled and nodded. "'Asyrota jiraamat minadz dzahab fi duyuun haalan..."

Aly took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly. "Qobiltu nikaah'aha watazwijahaa 'alal mahril madzkur wa radhiitu bihi Wallahu waliyyut taufiq."

"Alhamdulillah..." Everyone present seemed to be simultaneously saying hamdalah.

Ustadz Jefri immediately began his wedding prayer recitation.

All who accept prayer while in a state of sobbing, is no exception with Aly. However, not with Abah Kyai, who is now smiling and slowly closing his eyes when all the faces are looking down solemnly to accept a series of prayers to the end.

And in the middle of the prayer, it turned out that Ning Halimah continued to watch the change in the face of the father and when the prayer was over, Ning Halimah again cried hysterically.

"Change... Awake, bah... I still need Abah...Abah wake..." Ning Halimah's grim cry was instantly transmitted to everyone, including the ummi nyai who also started crying hysterically.

Aly who also sobbed directly grabbed the bodies of the two women who had now been halal to come into contact with the skin with him. Aly's hands gently rubbed the backs of the two.

"Africa, Ning... Ikhlaskan Abah's. I'm in a better place..." Aly tried to advise both of them.

Because, the family's insanity in losing someone who is now meeting his death, will even burden the burden that will be borne by his own sing mayit in his grave.

"Come, we'll get out of here first." Aly hired both of them to come out of Abah Kyai's room so that Abah Kyai's body could be processed immediately.

Aly asked for help from one of the ustadzahs to accompany her ummi nyai in another room, while for Ning Halimah she herself would handle it which also went into Ning Halimah's own room.

Arriving at the room, Aly sat Ning Halimah's body on the edge of the bed and then gave her the water that had just been given by one of the khodams, so that Ning Halimah could relax and calm down a little.

"Change, kang... Not ready to lose Abah..." Racau Ning Halimah again sobbed.

Aly immediately carried Ning Halimah's body in her embrace. "That'sforu, Ning... Astaghfirullaahal Adzi... Astaghfirullaahal... Astaghfirullaahal Adziim..." Aly continued to demand that Ning Halimah follow her words and Ning Halimah slowly followed her even with a stammering voice as it was punctuated with sobs.

After saying the istighfar many times, finally the body that had been shaking it began to calm down even leaving only the remains of his sobbing that had sounded soft.

Aly's hands still continued to tightly hug Ning Halimah's body with the occasional rubbing of her back. Aly glanced at the face of ayu who was already filled with tears that turned out to have slept in her quiet sleep.

Ning Halimah's breathing began to blow regularly, signaling that Ning Halimah had already fallen asleep peacefully.

Aly lifted up his wife's tiny body and laid her on the bed in a comfortable state. He also did not forget to turn on his room AC with a normal temperature so that his wife sleeps without feeling angry, even Aly also released the hijab that covers his wife's head and then covers his wife's body before he came out of the room to participate in the funeral process of the teacher who has now become his father-in-law.

Aly approached several cabin managers who were shoulder to shoulder to shoulder to do the process of bathing Abah Kyai.

News related to the death of the religious teacher has trailed to all corners of the pesantren even to the opposite pesantren who was also a good friend of Abah Kyai during his life.

Various religious leaders, alumni of the cottage, as well as the great kyai, began to arrive and almost filled the entire pesantren area.

All the senior santri, khodam, also some of the lodge managers both son and daughter are being made busy by the guests who arrive. They are divided into several groups, namely as banquet managers, security santri-santri holders, parking area order organizers, as well as Laden agents in the process of managing the body of Abah Kyai.

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