The Choice of Abah
If Pain Becomes the Antidote to Sin

The old man sleeps late, he hopes that only by sleeping, Abah can meet the wife who first met Him Who is Most Love.

Abah's longing is only drenched and treated only in a dream, he hopes to meet Aisyah, the wife who left him first, "Seeh, if in the world we do not meet again, maybe in the dreamland God found us again." This is what he often mumbles before going to bed.

Ozi was still waiting outside, he kept calling Abah,

"Assalamu'alikum's chat...Baaaa...Abaaa..."

There was no reply from inside the house.

He tried to call and reply back, if Abah was in the house.

"Yeah, baaaaah....Assalamu'alaikuuum." The louder he called and said his greetings.

Again, quite far away the room with the position of Ozzi called Abah. But for the third time he called Abah, "This is the last, may Abah be horrified." Ozi in the heart.

"Yeahaaaaah....Baaaaaah, Assalamualaikuuuum....Abaaaaa...!" He yelled loudly, Ozi's voice trying to penetrate space, but what power, the old man was already sound in his speech.

Ozi's gaze was fixed on the gate of the house, which was tightly closed and locked with a padlock. "Panteees are not horrified, their house is in the key." Ozi said making sure the gate was locked, sighing deeply, he left the courtyard of the house.

Abah's sleep was disturbed by his dry cough, it was awakened after a few steps Ozi died at the gate. Abah fingered the edge of his bed, then the table and the walls of the room, just to get to the dispenser that was in the kitchen. With a step that tits, and holds tightness in his chest, the occasional cough appears, irritating the throat.

Abah tried to resist the cough, so as not to break the cough, if it has broken, it will hurt in the chest.

"O Allah, thou art the Healer, if my pain is the antidote to sin, I sincerely, if this pain is a rebuke of the pride of the servant, please forgive..." In his heart Abah spoke and realized over all his caliphate.

Abah tried to reach for the stick that was leaning in the living room, just a few steps, he took a short break while holding whatever was around him that he could reach, in order to support his body. Then he reached the living room, where he put the staff.

He took a deep breath, set his breath back, it felt like he was already heavily stepping.

"Divine, death is not an excuse for the despair of the servant, but if I have to die, let me meet with You and the woman you have secured for me. O Allah, forgive for the negligence of the servant in educating the servant's son, Fahrurozzi." His eyes were teary, and his gaze was blank.

"O Allah, forgive all your servants' faults" He looked up to heaven with tears.

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Arul and Nabila were so happy, after the Walimah, the orange ceiling filled the bridal room, red and white rose flowers filled the bed.

White mosquito nets are still attached to the walls of the room, as well as some beautifully decorated flowers of the bridal room. Not far from the bed, the piles of gifts are arranged high, and scattered.

"Bee, aren't you so great tomorrow when you launch the hospital?" Ask Arul.

"And it's been a long time prepared, the time is pushed back, it's precisely you who reception without preparation, maen marry someone's child." Reply Nabila while smiling.

"Kalooo don't rush me to marry you, afraid of being stabbed." Canda the man who is now officially his life companion.

"Tomorrow I go to Abah's house early in the morning, before the event, at least he's the commissioner at the hospital, even though Abah has given everything to me, but business ethics I still have to take care of."

"I believe you are confident in managing it all, please bee, if it is good for all."

"All I want to cool Abah, some days I've been horrified from Ustadz Burhan, his health condition is a bit unbearable."

"Okay, I got permission..."

"Yes Bee..."

"Not long ago I was at Abah's house, ten o'clock in the morning must be at the Hospital, you too? Yaudah, if so, we look at Abah first, then we go straight to the hospital."

"I'll come along, you rest first tomorrow must be tired," Arul's smile cools Nabila's heart.

"All right, I clean up first yeah?"

When she got out of bed, and went to the bathroom.

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Ozi spent his time in the mosque, he no longer has any position in Abah's foundation, sorry then useless, he said, only Nabila's policy will be able to decide the fate of her ex-husband, whether it can still be empowered in the foundation or in the hospital, but of course all that should be discussed with Nabila husband who is also a hospital investor and policy penenetu, Arul also concurrently as the main director in hospital management sturktur.

"Stadz, have you eaten? Eat yuk first?!" Burhan's voice teased Fahrurozzi's daydream aka Ozi.

"Ente aja first stadz, ane still full."

"Not to worry, we eat together, where do we eat? People see you all day in the mosque, not a lot of thoughts, then let it be wisdom in life, a lesson that should not be repeated in our lives tomorrow."

"Syukron stadz, may be a will for me, ane nyesel, a repentance for what has happened in life."

"If the prison becomes a madrassa or school for you, then the black sheet will not be repeated in your life. And start opening new pages in life."

"Sign up Stadz,"

"For a while you can hold the management of the mosque first, until later there is a decision of the directors, I hope you can return or be involved in the stewardship of the foundation."

"Yes Stadz, you already want to accept ane aja already grateful, who I think now how Abah can nerima ane back. And forgive ane stadz."

"Taaadz, as much as Tiger, he will not eat his son, as hard as Abah Yayi, there must be a heart space that will forgive you, calm and do not rush, maybe Abah is still traumatized, maybe Abah is still, and his health is now also not good, many problems that he faced, Umi died, plus your incident, until finally Abah was a lot of alone, and rarely wanted to meet the crowd, he said, the schedule of his lectures and studies was already limited, even now he almost stopped all."

"Aneeee really regretted Stadz, but she really repented. It's enough ane to smear Abah's face, all one until Umi died, ane not pantes so Abah and Umi's son." Ozi's tears wet his cheeks.

"Zi, even though our sins exceed the seven heavens, if God wills to forgive, no creature can stand in the way. Likewise, do not think our worship exceeds the worship of angels, if God does not accept what? Well, now you calm down, expand worship, and slowly we improve relations with humans."

"Jadzakumullah Stadz, you're the only one who still wants to receive ane." Ozi hugged Ustadz Burhan so tightly.

"Everybody still wants to accept you, it just takes time and proof. Now we eat first, don't get sick too."

Ozi and Ustadz Burhan left the mosque, looking for a place to eat.

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