Lessons From A Story

Lovers Can not Refuse But Fate Continues

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After the tarawih, Abahku invited me to accompany him to the hospital. It's about 1995-1996. Abah was told there was a sick acquaintance and requested Abah to visit him.

That night the three of us went to the hospital in central Jakarta. Also accompany us, Abah's staff, Dr Anshori Mahbub LAL. For a moment inside the nursery, Abah approached the patient's bed, and then prayed.

Kak Ansari and I stood by the door. For a long time Abah was seen bending her head near the bed. Not like usual.

Then Abah signaled to leave the nursing home. In the corridor, Kak Anshari, Al-Azhar Cairo's Arabic-language alumni, whispered to me: "For a long time Abah prayed. Makbul this! "I just answered slowly," Amin Ya Rabb ".

In Abah's car it was silent. Not usually we are busy talking. I also feel uncomfortable to disturb Abah who somehow looks silent dreamy.

After dawn, we got a call, that our last night's acquaintance had died. Abah then called me.

"Subhan Allah. You know last night Abah stood beside the bed about to pray for him? "

"Yeah, I saw Abah for a long time praying last night."

"No, son! Last night a sudden prayer that Abah used to say disappeared from Abah's memory. Abah paused to bow his head instead of praying, Abah tried to remember the prayer lafaz, but all the sentences were lost, and none of the prayers came from Abah's mouth. In his strange car Abah remembered the prayer again. Fate has prevailed. "

I was shocked. Do not understand.

Later I just got it. The divine destiny has been recorded that the acquaintance will die at dawn. The prayer of a beloved's wish can not be denied. But destiny can not be changed. So God made the words of prayer disappear in the head so that none of His servants' requests were spoken that night.

The lovers' relationship with the Beloved is indeed unique. There is no power and power except with His permission alone.

Rabbi,
Remove everything about you
Let us in your memory
And You are in our dhikr
Always

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