Dangina Book 2 Complete Hausa Novel
Since Allah brought Malam back with this teacher, he couldn't find peace right away, because after his departure, there was a loss of one of his students who had studied under him. So even though he arrived, without delay he prepared to go to the bereaved family to offer them condolences, but he couldn't find rest until nightfall.
On Baba Adamu's side, since morning when Baba Auta told him he was going to Abuja the next day, he understood it was just Adamu's escape because he didn't want to face them with Malam. Because even from childhood, whenever they wronged Malam, Auta would run away from home until Malam sent for him before he would return.
He didn't ask him or inquire about the reason why he was going, because he knew Auta was just being stubborn, but he, being the one who was with him, knew that what had happened must have affected him, because there's no father who would be proud that his daughter was promiscuous.
Malam didn't enter the house until around 9 o'clock and some minutes at night, while Baba Adamu had settled and waited on the house veranda, waiting for his arrival so he could present everything to him that night, because Malam, only Allah could handle him, and if he said leave it until tomorrow to confront him with the matter, then Malam would scold him for what reason prevented him from presenting the paper to him today?
“Ah ah Adamu, are you sitting outside alone, are you well? Or are you just waiting to enter?”
Malam asked while his attention was on Adamu sitting on one of the chairs placed for sitting at Malam's parlor door.
“Yes Malam, welcome back, you've returned safely, how was the journey and the travel fatigue?”
“Alhamdulillah, we arrived safely, but you come sit here alone, even the others won't greet you properly, if you knew you were waiting for me, you could have called me on the phone, since I wasn't doing anything there, I was just standing greeting the bereaved since I haven't been here for two days, things have happened, and you should have opened the parlor and entered.”
“No problem, my son, I preferred sitting here, that's why I didn't go inside.”
“Well, God willing, bismillah, let's go inside then!”
Malam mentioned while pushing the parlor door and they entered with greetings.
After the fresh greetings they exchanged and the inquiries after meeting, Malam continued saying:
“Earlier Auta called me saying they've gone to Abuja, he and his family will stay for two days before returning, meaning Auta is just trying to leave this house because the town has become unbearable for him. I don't know what people want to become at all, as soon as a person sees he's gathered some money, you see he forgets about their home and separates himself somewhere alone. I see I'm the one who makes living among family pleasant, for Allah's sake, but now as soon as I speak, they give me a different interpretation. Since his work moved to Kaduna and he started this back and forth between Kaduna and Zaria, I know that soon he'll say he's tired of traveling and will take his family to move there. Right now, for Allah's sake, apart from Muntari's issue in Kaduna, they'll even find another school that surpasses this ABU, isn't that abandonment? I won't say more, let alone continue saying I'm being overly harsh.”
Despite all the complaints Malam made, Adamu didn't say anything but just smiled a little.
“Well, how are things? I hope nothing happened at home after my departure? Although if anything had happened, I know you would have handled it without waiting for my return.”
From there he looked at the clock hanging on his parlor wall.
“Ashsha, night has started like this, I completely forgot I didn't tell my wife's sister to send food to these children, she might have gone out. By Allah's grace, I know there's no wonder she entered without finding me at home.”
He took his phone from the side before dialing Inna's number, after one or two calls she answered.
“I've been home since earlier but none of you came to see me.”
From there she also replied to him saying:
“We ask for forgiveness Malam, it's Dije here who came to get headache medicine, so I know without doubt sleep overcame her, and I didn't know you had entered, that's why, but I'll come now.”
After he hung up the phone, he said to Adamu:
“Do you see these women's behavior? Two women but I entered since earlier, and none of them came in to give me food.”
“Forgive them, my son, if it's food, cook for yourself since I see it's been prepared there.”
“Allah the Almighty, indeed I see I didn't notice that food had been prepared, well bring it and serve us so we can eat, we've been away for two days and we haven't had the chance to eat evening meal together.”
Even though Baba Adamu had eaten his own food, that didn't prevent him from serving them this meal while they ate and chatted like that until Ameena entered and found them.
Even when she found them, she also sat down and they continued chatting, with Malam telling them about how his trip to Mai duguri went.
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On this night, Malam couldn't find peace to sleep calmly, because the matter really affected him - he had never imagined or suspected that such a thing could happen in his family. They're talking about divorce, and a divorce that would be the first divorce that occurred between their children, with the hope of strengthening the bond of friendship between them, and he returned from his trip to meet this kind of shocking scandal.
Consider that their parents were not people who divorced carelessly, and they too, as parents of their children, none of them had ever cut the rope of any of his wives.
But here today, their son whom they considered calm and sensible was the one who did this.
Despite the answer Adamu gave him about the reason why the housewife stood up and divorce occurred, he was still not satisfied, so he decided to wait until morning to sit with the boy and his parents, because he wouldn't accept the practice of divorce in his offspring, even if the divorce wasn't about Meenal, he must know the reason for the divorce, let alone something that fell on her.
As Malam wanted Auta to call Hajiya so that Meenal would be brought back home, well, Auta couldn't call Hajiya that night until morning.
Even in the morning, he didn't call her, but Mommy pleaded because even when Malam's call reached him and he heard the message Malam gave, he knew Auta wouldn't be able to call Hajiya, so she herself called to witness to her that Malam wanted to see Meenal at home for them to sit together.
Hajiya had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, so without hesitation she answered that they would reach home early as he wanted.
Even though Meenal had class in the morning that day, Hajiya prevented her from going, saying that now was the time to settle independence, not study time.
On Malam Sulaiman's side too, since the night Malam's call reached him, he couldn't find peace.
Because he knew Malam's character - since he couldn't wait for morning to call him that night, he certainly knew it was nothing but the message about Meenal's paper he had returned to find.
He was very worried because by Allah, he knew this could have consequences, so since that night he was trying to call Sarki on the phone to witness to him that wherever he was, he should try to return to Zaria in the morning because by Allah the housewife and her daughter had trapped him. He was sitting without knowing the beginning of the problem until they stirred everything up and now they brought him and put him in the middle.
Now tomorrow he'll go before Malam and stammer - for Allah's sake, you can only give birth to a person but you can't give birth to their character.
Not finding Sarki on the phone made him send a text message that night.
Even in the morning when he woke up, he continued calling Sarki on the phone but until then the phone didn't go through.
Eleven o'clock (11am) in the morning of this day arrived,
Malam Sulaiman,
The housewife
Baba Adamu
Inna the children's caretaker
Hajiya Innah
Meenal
Including Malam himself were in his parlor where he had also told the male family children except for prayers that he wanted all of them by 12 o'clock this day, meaning after he finished with the parents about the children, he would return.
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Malam Adamu opened the meeting with prayer, and after some greetings, Malam cleared his throat as he was accustomed.
He looked and turned his attention to Malam Sulaiman sitting next to him bent over before turning to the housewife.
“Sulaiman, truly you and your wife have greatly surprised me because you have done to me what I never expected to experience from you, especially you, housewife!”
He finished speaking while pointing at her with his hand.
“Have you forgotten the past years when you kept coming to me in this my parlor begging for my blessing to take Mamana's daughter in marriage for your son?”
He ended his words with a question to them while waiting to hear the answer they would give him.
Malam Sulaiman answered saying:
“We ask for patience and forgiveness, brother. What happened doesn't mean we forgot the favor you did for us by giving us the marriage of the one named Hajiya even though we knew the value of friendship we gained. It's just that we didn't expect the matter would turn to the edge we're at now - you can only give birth to a person, but you can't give birth to their character.”
