Zaynab's love story

Pernah tak terbaca tentang kisah Zaynab- anak nabi terakhir kita- yang dikahwinkan dengan Abu al-As.

She met her husband at a time before Islam. Full of happiness and contentment. Memang bahagialah mereka berdua bersama.

Bila nabi Muhammad menerima wahyu pertama...dan beliau menjadi utusan Allah. Abu al-As masih dengan ekraguan dalam hati membuat keputusan untuk menjauhkan diri dari nabi...in some ways, dia membuat keputusan untuk meninggalkan Zaynab.

Zaynab, so ever faithful to her Lord and her father, was sad...truly sad...for she loved her husband dearly. But she remained with her new faith. Walaupun telah diterangkan oleh nabi, mereke perlu berpisah...berpisah kerana Islam.

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Pernah tak baca kisah tentang dua remaja dekat asrama- sorang yang bajet nak jadi baik (si lelaki) tetibe nak berubah dan start menjadi macam uztaz2...bagi message macam alim2, and ayat tazkirah semua... pastu, tetibe dia semacam dapat "petunjuk" yang dia perlu tinggalkan keadaan kehidupan dia yang penuh dengan maksiat couple nih. Yang hanya disalutkan dengan kebaikkan. Obviously he felt like a hipokrit.

Jadi pada satu malam yang agak hening, dia message la awek dia. "Saya rasa kita perlu berpisah, berpisah kerana Islam..." Come on, mesti pernah baca cerita ni... it's all over the internet.

The only thing I ever want to know is---what happened to the girl? So, lelaki tu jadi baik dan berubah dan tinggalkan maksiat. What about the girl? Dia jadi baik tak? Dia kahwin dengan lelaki lagi hot tak? Betul ke dia tak couple lain? Since well, couple tu kan 'haram'? Berdasarkan konklusi cerita ni la... And a few other religious scholars advice. I mean, technically, ok we understand. But still- what was the real end?


Curious.

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Kisah cinta Zaynab...

Jangan ingat kisah cinta ni takde drama- ada la adegan tertentu, Abu Al-As kena tangkap oleh orang Muslim, dan Zaynab sanggup bagi segala harta dia untuk minta dia dibebaskan. Beberapa kali Zaynab ni bagi perlindungan dekat Abu Al -As, without asking anything in return.

Pastu ada adegan Zaynab di kacau oleh orang kafir Quraisy, menyebabkan dia trauma dan keguguran. Abu-Al As ni terus jadi body guard dia, bajet double side agent for his beloved la, and siap bace poems about "no one will protect you as long as I have my sword"....haha...rolling my eyes right now...

Akhirnya, dalam kisah cinta Zaynab ini...Abu Al-As akhirnya memeluk agama Islam. Di khalayak ramai di Makkah setelah memulangkan semua harta yang orang amanahkan dekat dia. A courageous and honorable way to enter his new faith. He already understood the lies and confusion of the Kuffar and was ready to change. He did. Hidup dengan bahagia as an immigrant di Madinah with his lovely wife and two kids.

Zaynab was super happy. She felt so blessed.

Than after a few years, she died. Dia pulak yang tinggalkan suami dia. Berpisah ke tempat yang tidak boleh patah balik dah. Abu Al-As masa tu peluk cium semua anak-anak dia. Wetting their faces with his tears.

"She opened the door...after their long separation, she saw him. In this encounter, it was their eyes that talked, rather than their tongues. It was their two hearts that took one another rather than their hands. It was their soul that embraced one another rather than their arms. And their eyes were plentiful of tears...."

Conclusion
Hollywood can never make good stories like these, because this one is real. Hah!
Your heart and faith are in the same place- so they are affected by each other. Duh.
Every love story has to have someone who dies to make it sound cool and super awesome. Tear jerk-er!

Nothing compares to eternal separation like death.
My love, I keep saying goodbye.