Tiba Khitbah
180 Days Left
"Well, Ummi, thank you very much."
"Send our greetings to our future son-in-law" Umm Salamah replied kindly and very courteously.
Now it sounds frenzied, it looks like the family of ustadz Fahri and Zahra's relatives have retired to their respective homes, and now what is left is a sign that Zahra is engaged.
Tok ..., Tok ..., Tok ...
"Zahra, Ummi come in, son!" said Umm Fatimah who still does not ignore Zahra.
Ummi sat on the bed beside Zahra, his breathing sounding heavy as if he was holding a lot of weight in his heart and mind.
"Ara, Ummi wants to go straight, Ummi doesn't want any more debate between us. Ummi wants you to know one thing, if now you have become someone's fiancee, you should wear this ring on your ring finger and one thing you should know is that Ustadz Fahri is the right man to be your husband."
Without further ado, ummi Fatimah handed over the engagement ring on Zahra's palm.
Zahra's heart was turbulent, how could he be engaged in an instant, even this meeting happened without asking for his opinion in the least. It is as if he has no right to himself.
"Ummi, Ara doesn't like that Ustadz!"
"Like it, don't want it, everything has happened and this is God's destiny."
"The fate imposed by Ummi?"
Zahra got up from the bed, sat down and looked at Umm Fatimah with glaring eyes, full of emotion and intense anger. There is an extraordinary debate between mother and child that makes the atmosphere hot.
Prak ...
A loud slap landed on Zahra's cheek, until one of her hands immediately reflexively held her left cheek reddened in pain. Zahra's blood was boiling with a bursting emotion that made her want to scream.
"Zahrah! Ummi never taught you to be an ungodly child."
Umm Fatimah was furious with tears flowing down her cheeks, her face filled with regret and disappointment. This is the first time the mother was angry to hit her favorite daughter.
"Watch this and break off your status-less relationship with Alex. Stay away from that little guy, he doesn't deserve you!"
Ummi Fatimah gave the engagement ring to Zahra's hand, the fancy looking diamond ring looked very pretty, but no matter how good the ring did not make Zahra want to wear it because she really did not want to be forcibly engaged like this.
"Ummi is really evil!" zahra said in sobs.
Now the soft voice with sobs of regret that came out from the words of Umm Fatimah really made Zahra's heart very broken. Moreover, the mother left her daughter's room with tears to make the princess feel like a child.
'Zahra, is this the kind of life you expect? Do you want to fight both parents for the selfishness of your heart?'
Zahra began to blame herself. He really wanted to get married but he also did not want to rush to make a decision, and however this heart continues to refuse that this is not the marriage like this that he hoped.
'Six months? That means I still have 180 days to set the strategy, it's a good opportunity, ' Zahra said in her heart with a glimmer of hope that she would make an opportunity.
Zahra rose from her bed, slowly wiping away the tears that kept battering her cheeks, feeling that God was giving her a chance to change her destiny now. Yes, Zahra had heard the talk of an ustadz if the soul mate is the destiny of God that can be worked out with effort and prayer, he said, so Zahra grasped a full conviction that nothing is impossible if God wills, just by saying, 'Kun Fayakun, ' all will happen.
Zahra believed that God would not give trials beyond the limits of His servant's ability. If God gives a test or trial to a servant, then there are two possibilities, the first may be God wants to take away his sins and the second is to raise his degree. Yes, one thing that Zahra believes, God certainly gives the best wisdom for all the life lessons given and this belief that Zahra holds until now.
'Zahra, be excited, if indeed you have faced a dead end in your long journey, then just face it!' zahra said in her heart while encouraging herself.
Zahra walked up to get her phone back, trying to figure it out, maybe Alex had answered the question she asked the man. But there was no reply from Alex, the man just read the message without replying or reacting to anything.
For a moment, Zahra imagined what his ummi said, if Alex was not a good man because he just wanted to use Zahra's kindness. But, after all, Zahra's heart and mind again churned, finding out for himself about something he didn't know. Yes, maybe that feeling makes someone forget that what was done was very wrong.
'Alex, where are you really? Why did you disappear and not take the call from me?' zahra said in her heart with a million question marks in her heart.
Zahra also tried to contact Alex several times, but all in vain, the man instead of picking up his phone but instead refused it, until this heart began to think of things that were not.
Even began to appear bored and fed up with the treatment of Alex to him, now Zahra's mind suddenly just want to read a short message ustadz Fahri to him.
[Assalamualaikum, Zahra, can I talk to you?]
It seemed that Zahra did not want to reply to the man's message, because she was too fed up with anything about him, other than that she did not want to talk to anyone right now.
'Do I have to run away from this house?'
Zahra suddenly thought of something without thinking. Yes, Zahra doesn't want to marry the man she doesn't love, but what she has to do now, if he runs away from home then he will be a child of disobedience and the second, Zahra will make both parents embarrassed in the environment because their daughter ran away before her wedding day.
Yes, Zahra could not imagine how embarrassed her family was over her completely immature attitude. But, the more Zahra thought, the more she wanted to run away from this matter. As if escaping is the best way for everything that has been planned not to be realized. Yes, the dilemma of the heart makes Zahra unable to think clearly, because in her brain full of rejection.
'I have to hurry, it seems like I have to run away but in a beautiful way so that my parents are not suspicious, ' Zahra said in her heart.