Cakna PRUXIII

"Fi!...aku tahu engkau pendokong kuat Parti Islam...tapi Fi takkan engkau sanggup menggadaikan agama dek kerana hanya kuasa?"

Pak Rajab yang bertandang ke Warong Leman menunjukkan risau akan perkembangan yang berlaku lewat penantian PRUXII.

Nu'man dan Mbah sengaja menghabiskan masa di Warong Leman pagi ini, selepas solat subuh. Biarkan Lubna menarik nafas sebentar setelah bertungkus lumus menyediakan jamuan hari raya semalam untuk sehari suntuk.

Ramai tetamu, sahabat handai dan saudara mara baik di sebelah Mbah mahupun Mbah Wedhok, berkunjung ke rumah Mbah menyambung silaturrahim yang lama pudar.

The Collapse Of The Surau

If you had come to my birthplace by bus a few years ago, you would have gotten near the market and proceeded westward along the main road for about a kilometer and then you would have come to the road to my village.

At a small intersection, the fifth from the market, you would have turned right. At the end of the road you would have seen an old surau  with a fish pond in front of it, the water flowing from four bathing fountains. On the left of the surau you would have seen an old man sitting there,behaving like old men do and showing his devotion to Allah.

He had been the custodian of the surau for years. People referred to him as Grandpa.

As custodian, he received no salary.

He lived on the alms that he got every Friday.

Every six months he got fourth of the profits from the sale of the goldfish in the pond and once a year people came to give him fitrah.

It was not so much as a custodian that he was known, however, but as a knife sharpener, as he was really good at that. People brought their knives to him and yet he never asked anything in return.

The women who came to him with their knives or scissors to be sharpened would give some spicy food.

The men would give him cigaraettes and sometimes money.

What he received most, however, were thanks and smiles.

Lebaran Bermakna

Malam ini adalah malam lebaran untuk kesekian kalinya buat Mbah.

Tiada lagi terawih lapan atau dua puluh, yang sering ditelingkahkan setiap kali Ramadan menjelang.

Tiada lagi jemaah yang melimpah memenuhi masjid yang sanggup menanti sehingga habis witir baru melangkah pulang.

Tiada lagi kumpulan tadarus yang membentuk bulatan menghabiskan 30 juzuk al Quran sepanjang Ramadan.

Tiada lagi selingan tazkirah saban malam.

Puas sudah diingatkan agar istiqamah dalam ibadah yang dikerjakan kerana itu hikmah Ramadan.

Bersabarlah...

Danial dan Anas kembali ke sekolah setelah digantung dua minggu.

Ramai mata yang memerhatikan gelagat mereka berdua. Dari rakan ke guru tingkatan, kelibat mereka sedikit sebanyak merimaskan.

Kononnya mereka bakal mengulang kembali tabiat lalu, ramai yang akan dipengaruhi dan macam-macam lagi...satu labeling yang tidak dapat dielakkan.

Cuma...

"Assalamualaikum, cikgu." serentak mereka memberi salam kepada Cikgu Rahim, Guru Disiplin merangkap Penolong Kanan Hal Ehwal Murid.

"Wa'alaikummussalam wbt." balas Cikgu Rahim.

Cikgu Rahim yang sedang mengemas-ngemas meja di pejabatnya tidak menduga suara yang memberi salam itu adalah mereka, Danial dan Anas.

AmpunanMu Ku Pohon

salam
seperti yang abang cakap hari tu, isnin ni korang datang ya jumpa abang kat bitarasiswa, confirm kan? tolong respond kat abang selewat-lewatnya sebelum zohor ni, ok?

abg read

Satu pesanan ringkas masuk ke dalam inbox Danial.

"Abang Read...,baik aku forward kat Anas." bicara hati Danial.

Setelah peristiwa di Bazar Ramadan, Che Read telah mengambil inisiatif untuk mendekati mereka dengan harapan tiada ulang laku yang jijik semacam tempoh hari.

Che Read merancang mempertemukan mereka dengan Farah dan Mazlina, mangsa kerakusan mereka untuk menitip kemaafan.

Memang berat hati mereka menghulurkan maaf.