Amatulmaleek Book 1 Complete Hausa Novel

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She remained silent, listening to how her uncle's voice was rising because of how he was raising his tone in anger and distress,

It was severe anger and distress together with exhaustion evident on his face, combined without any ease or mercy at all.

All this anger and distress together with the raised voice of her mother who was sitting listening to him screaming,

Even from her mother herself, even she, her daughter who was grown up, felt great pain in her heart every time her mother was sat down and subjected to this kind of shouting. She felt there was no one among them who stood up to look at him or respond to the shouting he was doing to her, raising the veins in his neck as he did it.

Uncle Bello himself, his nature had always been harsh and difficult to deal with every time he would come and keep pouring out his anger in front of them. But there was nothing she could respond with except that her mother would finish and he would calm down. Even JANNAT herself didn't raise her head or speak.

This increase in his shouting and his words had become harsh on them, which is why her eyes and her mother's were all filled with tears, but none of them wanted to see their brother's son's tears.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his big garment, repeating the mother's last words he said:

"Certainly if Abdulhameed goes back to that Western school again and his report is brought to me, wallah tallahi I will send him to Quranic school (almajiranci), I can't bear the grief, my brother died without leaving you to return, only your ruin,

If you don't stand where Allah has placed you with your children, then pack up or go ahead, we can't manage."

He turned and left the place without stopping the abuse and shouting he was doing until he left the door of their small section that they had been given to stay in alone after their father's death.

The mother sighed without looking at the side where AmatulMaleek was sitting, she too was continuing to patch Abdulhameed's torn pants with a needle, but she couldn't do much because her age was not yet capable enough.

All of them, no one said anything because AmatulMaleek's deep inner thoughts were too much despite her young age, but she was very good at suppressing things and hiding them in her heart.

The mother who knew AmatulMaleek wouldn't say anything just swallowed her tears so that even AmatulMaleek wouldn't see her, she got up from where she was sitting and headed for the washing items that she had taken out earlier and started doing the washing.

AmatulMaleek stole a glance at her, putting aside her needle and thread in her hand, staring at her mother with white eyes without saying anything,

One thing that always wandered in her heart was if Mommy, her mother's younger sister, why is it that she always just sends them clothes and food but can't separate them and take them from this miserable life of poverty and hardship they are in under their father's relatives,

Every time their food was about to finish, her throat would be constricting so much, she would go and find something to eat, while they would just spend the day and sleep like that. Even though her mother would work for the household women at night, when she finished, she would be given something to eat with her children.

Her biggest wonder was that every day food items were brought to them from Mommy's place, on the day of distribution when everything was shared, theirs would only last two days and then finish, they would return to hardship.

In the life they grew up in, the house contained their male relatives, five brothers including her late father, each with his family, some with two wives, some with three, even some with four, which is why the house was crowded.

Everyone in the house knew only their own family,

No one could help another because everyone's burden on themselves was beyond their strength, which is why almost everyone's life was messed up.

They were five men, the elders of the house, and each of them was in the house with his own family. No one left the house despite the crowded living conditions in the house.

Her father was the youngest among them and the only one who had Western education, and he was the only one with a government job at the primary school in their village, which he couldn't leave to go get another job elsewhere. But he couldn't go, he remained as vice principal there until old age came, he died leaving his wife and his only daughter AmatulMaleek and the little baby who was named after his father, Abdulhameed.

Before Baba's death, their life in the house among their relatives, what they lived and experienced was a life that was different from all the household relatives because of the care and attention Baba gave them and their mother,

Baba never thought of taking another wife because of the pressure and household life she was in and seeing how even upbringing was seeking perfection for his siblings' children because of the many families, despite almost many of the house children, he was the one bearing their ruin because their own parents couldn't manage, besides, on top of that, they hadn't stopped childbearing.

AmatulMaleek was the light of her father's eye because his desire and need to distinguish her with upbringing from the other house children whose upbringing had shortcomings, despite him trying his best to give them upbringing, but he was doing it while their parents were spoiling things. That's why he stood very firmly for his own daughter whom he wanted to have a proper life and for her other siblings who would come later. That's why he didn't slack in effort, he put her in school, which in the entire house among females, only she entered Western education.

He closed his eyes and ears to everything that would be said about his daughter and the life he chose for her. That's why she herself, AmatulMaleek, grew up like a loner, she didn't mix or interact with people much, and she also couldn't leave their section to go to any section in the house because they had become too many in the house, to the point that from one section if you want to go to another section, one of the house men would accompany the girl so she wouldn't be corrupted on the house paths that had darkness sometimes.

Many house children, some of them had been corrupted among themselves, which is covered up and they are married to each other.

This was the biggest thing occupying Baba and mother's minds about AmatulMaleek's life being different among the house children. That's why even Amatun doesn't go anywhere if not with her father, even if it's an errand, then certainly her hand is held by her father.

There was a hardship that almost broke down on AmatulMaleek, which was the first thing that hurt Baba's heart, caused him heartache that turned into physical illness, which eventually was almost his death.

From Amatun's chores there in the backyard, one of her big cousins ambushed her in the dark front, covered her mouth without letting her see him, wanting to ruin her life without regard for her age.

Baba himself rescued that terrible calamity that befell her, he fought and fell, thank God nothing happened, AmatulMaleek escaped. That's why he packed up their belongings, she and her mother, to Abuja to her mother's younger and trustworthy sister's place, they went to live there until after several long months they returned.

After their return, his heart never found peace or rest with life in the house, which is why he rented a place near the house and moved with his family.

There their life improved, their minds settled, it was at that time that AmatulMaleek began to be aware of her mother's relationship with her sister Mommy Abeeda, whose life immediately was different from her mother's, and a very big difference.

At first she never knew they were sisters from one father, until later when they would go to Mommy's house, she saw how her mother worked among the workers, she began to understand that certainly they weren't born by the same mother, but until that time she kept hoping they were born by the same father.