The Love of Habib
Chapters 16.8
"This...does something happen?" Ask Nadira to everyone.
But everyone was still reluctant to speak to Nadira. Until finally 5 minutes passed, this stiff atmosphere still continued and Umi could not hold it anymore.
"So, it's better that this conversation be postponed. Poor Nadira, he must be tired after traveling far." Umi said trying to delay the speaker.
Nasifa frowned disapprovingly. Umi was the most gentle person when dealing with Nadira and he had guessed it from the beginning if Umi would have disagreed with the matter being discussed. Because this will definitely hurt Nadira.
"no need. If left to drag on, this problem will be even harder to solve." Abah said without looking at his wife.
Umi knows. She lowered her head in shame before her husband.
"So what's going on?" Nadira looked at Abah curiously.
Abah raised his head looking at his second daughter with a very calm expression. Anyone in this house could not see the emotions in it, yet they knew that this was a sign of a storm that was about to strike. No one can smile here. Even Nadira who always put on a smiling face finally lost her smile when she saw the calm face of Abah.
"Did you really like the habib of Thalib and start chasing him?" Abah asked in her low old voice.
Nadira was stunned, glancing at Nasifa beside him who showed absolutely no expression. He knew that Nasifa must have reported it to Abah.
"Yes, Abah. I liked Habib Thalib and chased him. Honestly, Nadira has loved him for a long time. To this day, that feeling is still the same. And do Abah and Umi know? The reason I went to Egypt was because I wanted to pursue Habib Thalib. I fought as hard as I could to have good grades and be able to go to Egypt. I want to be worthy and worthy in front of the Habib of Thalib because that is why I flew to Egypt. Abah and Umi should help me talk to the habib of Thalib. I'm sure, with you, Habib Thalib won't reject me-"
"No way." Cut Abah with closed eyes.
It hurts to hear his beloved daughter crave a man. And it would be nice if the man had not been Khalid's habib since the boy was very taboo to him. He was unable to touch or influence him because habib Khalid was a firm and difficult man.
"What does Abah mean?" Nadira did not understand.
His eyes began to turn red under everyone's supervision.
"Nadira, Abah has said for a long time so as not to like the habib of Thalib. Among all the habib and sayid, Abah lets you like anyone as long as you do not habib Thalib. Don't you remember what Abah always said?" Abah did not understand.
Nadira also knows this but she doesn't know the reason why Abah did this.
"Why Abah? Why can't Nadira be the same as habib Thalib? Abah saw for himself the habib Thalib cannons are hardworking, independent, kind, friendly, warm, idolized by many people, and have a fairly broad knowledge. And more importantly we are all one nasab, Abah? So why can't Nadira be with him? Or...this is because of sister Nasifa? Sister Nasifa had already refused her engagement to habib Thalib so I should have been given the chance this time let alone I still do not have a fiance!"
"You're wrong, deck! I never refused the betrothal and I never rejected the habib of Thalib, but it was Habib Thalib who rejected brother! She refused the sister the day Abah wanted to propose the engagement! Habib Thalib was never in the first place with that engagement and did not even give you a chance to solidify yourself! He doesn't like big brother, deck!" Denied Nasifa with a choked voice.
He loved habib Thalib, almost missing him every night. He always dreamed of being the lover of the habib, together in a marriage. But the pain of rejection was still clearly remembered inside his head. Habib Thalib was so ruthless, rejecting him mercilessly and instantly keeping his distance from him as if avoiding a plague. Whose heart is not wounded?
Whose heart does not hurt?
But Nasifa tried to hold it all together while praying that God would bring her into contact with a man who would be able to erase this sense of habib. Really, he was very sick every time he thought about it.
"Why.. why.. didn't Nasifa reject the Habib of Thalib?" Nadira asked empty.
Nasifa tried to hold back the tears in her eyes, but no matter how hard she held them back, the tears still spilled and began to wet her pale face.
"Who said? habib Thalib never accepted the engagement from the start. He rejected big brother firmly whatever big brother said and tried to do. His decision can never be challenged. The rejected brother, the deck, not the resisting brother! I may not refuse it..." His was held back trying to keep his raucous voice.
Nadira stared blankly at her brother, staring at how painful her brother's expression was now enduring the pain. So what's with the dream all this time?
Abah let out a heavy sigh and immediately interrupted the conversation of the two of them. His two daughters fell in the same hole, it is inconceivable how heartbroken Abah saw his two daughters heartbroken in the same man.
"No, Nadira. This is the reason Abah asked you not to fall in love with Habib Thalib. It is not that the habib of Thalib is not good, no, in this life Abah has never seen a better man than the habib of Thalib. He has everything that a father-in-law misses in this world. He is a very good man. However, this man already had another woman in his heart. And her rejection of your sister's engagement was because of this woman, too. He said his heart had enough of one woman in the world and he didn't want another. Now do you understand why Habib Thalib rejected your brother and I even forbid you to like him?"
This statement was like a slap to Nadira. He fell leaning against the sofa, sobbing sobbing drowning in his sadness that could not be described with words. Beside her, Nasifa also burst into tears at how sad her sister was. She shuffled closer to her sister and hugged her warmly. They both cried together to share the sadness. For a moment, the tense atmosphere was immediately replaced by the sound of sobs of the two most precious treasures of the married couple.
Abah saw it helplessly and Umi was just as powerless. They fell into a grief that entered the chest.