Wedding Agreements
140. Rabbits
Asha who had just finished performing the congregational prayer folded his face. He immediately went to the balcony in his room, sitting down and peeling the apples. Ega also sat down next to Asha, then grabbed the piece of apple in his wife's hand.
"Mas Ega from nyomot aja," Manyun Asha.
Ega smiled and then gave the remaining pieces of the apple his bite marks towards Asha's mouth.
"Honey, we should not go down to gather with papa and mother," suggested Ega.
"Mother and papa are not home now, they are attending the wedding of his best friend's grandchildren said the mother. Surely they go home want magrib, mas saturated in the room?"
Ega shaking.
"How about we go to the back garden and feed my rabbit" Asha asked.
"Are you keeping rabbits?"
Asha laughed then scratched her non-itchy hair.
"It used to be, but since I was in college that care for Inah if ngak mother now her rabbit so much. If it's big fat made rabbit satay," ketus Asha. "Mas never eat rabbit satay, the meat is very steady what else if made rica-rica guaranteed your appetite increased by two servings" said Asha.
Ega had never eaten rabbit meat but he knew that the rabbit was halal according to the hadith he had learned which read:
عَنْأَنَسٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ أَنْفَجْنَا أَرْنَبًا بِمَرِّ الظَّهْرَانِ فَسَعَى الْقَوْمُ فَلَغَبُوا فَأَدْرَكْتُهَا فَأَخَذْتُهَا فَأَتَيْتُ بِهَا أَبَا طَلْحَةَ فَذَبَحَهَا وَبَعَثَ بِهَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِوَرِكِهَا أَوْ فَخِذَيْهَا - فَقَبِلَهُ قُلْتُ وَأَكَلَ مِنْهُ
Narrated from the friend of Anas bin Malik that he said: ‘We were once busy catching rabbits in the valley of Marru adz-Dzahran. Many people try to catch it until they are tired. Then I managed to catch him then I took it to Abu Talha and he slaughtered it and then sent the hamstrings or two hamstrings on Rasulullah shallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam. He then received it’. I (Anas) said: ‘And the Prophet consumed from the meat’.” (Silver Bukhari)
The purity of rabbit meat is also conveyed by Imam An-Nawawi in the book of al-Majmu’ based on the provision that rabbits are included as good animals (for consumption) according to the views of Arabs, following the reference:
Halal eating rabbits, based on the Word of God “And that justify everything that is good for them” (QS. Al-A’raf: 157). Rabbits are some of the good things (thayyibat)” (Sheikh Yahya bin Sharaf an-Nawawi, al-Majmu’ ala Syarh al-Muhadzab, Juz 9, Hal. 10) As a result, eating rabbits is not something to be questioned because rabbits include some animals that are halal to consume, including, just how rabbit meat is slaughtered syar’i so that the animal is not even a carcass that is haram for consumption. Wallahu a’lam.
"really it? Who's cooking? Who killed him?" ask Asha to investigate.
"Pak Karim her husband bu Iyem, those who manage it.Tenang Mas, they slaughtered in an Islamic manner so that the food remains halal. Mother always taught everyone in this house to obey religion. Mommy also always reminds if you have heard the adhan reverberate leave any work to hurry ablution for congregational prayer at the mosque next to the house. What else if the magrib was full mushola, " explained Asha.
I did not expect that the Wijaya family was a religious person. Maybe they used to be disappointed in the attitude of Asha who defied the inner Ega.
Asha and Ega walked towards her pet rabbit cage.
Asha immediately took fresh carrots to give to some rabbits that came in and out of his house. Yes Asha did ask the father to make small houses for his beloved animals.
Ega noticed his wife stroking the hair of his favorite rabbit head gently crouched down to thrust his carrot into the rabbit's mouth that swarmed his wife.
"Darling, why do you like pet rabbits? Do women prefer to keep cats?" ask Ega.
"If the cat is familiar, who likes cats mbak Bila. I didn't like it at first but have since read the article of a recent study conducted by a team of specialists at the University of Missouri, led by Professor Rebecca Johnson, the presence of rabbits can provide calm for women. Further, the researchers observed a decrease in the level of a stress hormone called cortisol in the female body after stroking the dense rabbit hair for a few minutes."
"Caring for rabbits, according to Dr. Johnson, is included in the process of caring for them, facilitating them to build social relationships, teaching women to understand themselves and others, as well as how to communicate with others effectively, maybe this happens because rabbit care is quite difficult and requires intensive care, so it requires input and information from many people. Women who kept rabbits also had better emotional control and attitudes. Rabbits are often used as part of therapy to help heal serious pain in children and adolescents, such as autism, depression, and lack of confidence" explained Asha.
"Is there any more pets here?"
"There are, on the back there are coin fish, catfish that are farmed the same Mr. Men. There are also organic vegetable plants grown directly by the mother, bongsai garden, also there. Let's take a look, let's take a tour!" Asha held her husband's hand out of the rabbit cage.