53: Orphan

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From the ashes of our love,
I take the memories you burnt,

As soon as sky was beginning to flush under the stroke of clours, tinted in crimson and lavender hue,

Alina was gradually losing all her colours, redness of her eyes dispersed within after spending her fair share of tears, she laid her head in Lura's lap,

Lura had helped Alina out of her hijab, and was caressing her greasy hairs, cringing at the slick texture,

"Have you taken a bath?"

Alina shook her haed, making the other woman heave a sigh, her sudden repulsive behaviour was exhausting Lura.

"Tell me tell you a story, just like your mother used to tell you," Lura noticed how she stiffed for a breif moment, before exhaling, her shoulders sinking,

Alina mumbled a response which Lura took as grunt, continuing her told tell strory,

"There was a time when prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) didn't received revolution from Allah, some says it was for six months or few weeks, or days, so He(S.A.W) got grieved from this gap,

"there was group of Mushrikun, among them was wife of abu lahab, she said that we see your lord have said goodbye to you, and it seems he is unhappy with you,"

Lura for her conformation, tabbed her shoulder, asking her, "Have you heard this one before?"

"No," Alina began to seat, leaning on the couch

Lura smiled one of her rare generous smiles, and Alina's heart swelled at the sight of flickers of affection, Which Lura was desperately trying to display,

"When the revolution comes, it was like morning smoothing light, the comfort that it used to bring and now all of a sudden it was like a night that just won't end,

"A surah was revealed as a response to their comments, and to console the prophet, can you name the surah for me, Alina?"

"I don't know,..."

Lura wore her scarf, and gave Alina her hijab, which she losely wrapped on her head, hiding her hairs,

"It is said in Quran;
بِسۡمِ اللهِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِيۡمِ

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

وَالضُّحَى
ٰI swear upon the light of morning,

The word mean the time of the day which full of life, it's hassling and bustling,

وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا سَجَى

By the night when it is still and lifeless,

Allah has taken oath upon the light and the dark; the life and the dead; the hassle and the calmness, to console his believer, and to teach us; the consolation of the greatest man in the history, in the most beautiful way,

"Allah says:

مَا وَدَّعَكَ رَبُّكَ وَمَا قَلَى

Your Lord has not taken leave of you, [O Muhammad], nor has He detested [you].

The word وَدَّعَكَ means the grave's sides, building walls around a grave and to never go inside it, abandoning it forever, وَدَّعَكَ it's an expression of saying goodbye and never coming back,

So, it means Allah hasn't left you,"

Lura gazed at Alina whose eyes weren't at her but instead was downcasted

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