The One with Aidil Fitri 2011

Selamat menyambut Aidil Fitri to all Muslims.....

This year Adil Fitri (Tuesday the 30th of August) was celebrated with fewer siblings, only I and my brother's family were at mum's on the 1st day of Raya. Alhamdulillah 1st day of Syawal went on smoothly and my youngest sister, Sis A arrived home safely that nite. Sis R arrived on 2nd nite of Syawal and Sis M could not made it though had earlier planned to be back home in KB on the 1st day.

As this year I got a new camera, photography session was again in motion, after 2 years without the photography session! he he he. Our theme this year was Brown! All was going well until on Thursday the 3rd raya. Why?..... hemmmm.

I was down with pain as my period came that morning. The pain was quite significant and Arcoxia almost did not help me...! I was down for 2 days and up and about on Saturday!! Alhamdulillah. However, as I was almost pain free, Mak and Sis A were then down with flu! Fuhhh...what a celebration! Sis R had since then went back to KL on Friday.

That evening, Mak decided to go to my brother's house in TM and Sis A to depart from his house. I contacted hubby as he was supposed to come back either on Friday or Saturday. He asked me to stay and wait for him, while Mak and Sis A proceeded to TM. Earlier, I was quite curious and taken back when Mak actually did not even once mentioned Hubby's name and sort off did not count Hubby as one of her son in law...Well there was a story behind it actually!

Though I was curious, I just ignored it and took it easy. However, things became clearer as to why Mak acted that way. She was informed by somebody about the incidents when The Other came to my house looking for Hubby. Mak was furious with Hubby for letting that to happen. The 2 incidents happened years back and she had just found out and assumes it was recent. Furthermore the stories were twisted and far from the truth that I laughed at it.

It was my sister in law; Sis D, who informed me about why Mak was acting that way. Hubby arrived at about 2am and we went to TM that morning for breakfast. When we arrived Mak did ignored Hubby, however Hubby did not noticed anything unusual and followed Mak to the kitchen to Salam!! Sis D, broke the story when we were out to buy groceries for lunch that day. We chatted while Hubby went to bank. I corrected the story and asked Sis D to convey the real story to Mak.

Mak did not come out for lunch and gave reason ' tak lalu makan'. Hemmm.. Never mind..! Now I knew that though I told the story to my trusted persons, one of them could not be trusted and I did not know who. Best not to tell anything from now on. Sometime I just want to confide in my family and share my grief and unlikely incidents with them. I could not trust them anymore...Those things should not be told to Mak as it would make her worries unnecessarily.....

So that was the story of this year's Aidil Fitri...Aidil Fitri never went by without unwanted incidents for me... And to make it worst, The Other kept on calling Hubby, until he was fed up and switched off his phone. She contacted me instead via SMS and also voice call. Hubby did not allow me to answer any of them.

Her 1st sms, "Salam. Ada m*** kt situ?". When I did not answer, she called, and when her call was also not answered, she sms-ed again. "Sy x pernah myakiti awak. Sy cuma sms atau call utk tau pasal dia shj. Nape dia terus off hp itu shj.." huh? I said to Hubby, "Who is she kidding?" Tak pernah menyakiti?. I cannot help laughing after reading the sms and so is Hubby...I asked Hubby to contact her and put me out of the misery of being hassled by her. He did and I too, then switched off the phone.. Tak kuasa!!!

All in all, Alhamdulillah I was still in 1 piece and life has to go on... I am living with pain again! Allah helps me and cherishes me! Insha’Allah

"Tiada seorang muslim yang (sabar) ditimpa oleh keletihan, kesakitan, benda yang dibenci, kedukacitaan hati, kesedihan hatta duri yang menyucuk kecuali melalui Allah menghilangkan dosa2nya."(hadith riwayat al-Bukhari).

I keep on telling myself, be patient, cherish the pain as my sins will melt way with my submission to Allah's gift of pain to me...Aku redho ya Allah...Amiiin.