Grill

"Sesuatu yang terjadi tentu ada hikmah daripadaNya"

In life, I've always asked myself, why this thing happens to me? Why it has to happen now? and the list of the whys goes on...especially on the bad things. It was a human nature to ask/blame/regret first before reflect yourself and look at it from the positive side.. No matter how optimistic you are, if something bad happened, the first thing in mind would be the why, then you will slowly realize that there must be a reason why it happens. But sometimes things just don't making any sense for...ever.

When I'm feeling down, I always replay this story again and again. It happened about 10 years ago. But the lesson learned is a lifetime guarantee. It is still fresh in mind.

During  that time, we lived in a corner lot terrace house. Just the normal terrace house, with a garage which fit only for one car. One day, my dad wanted to reverse our car out from the garage, but he mistakenly put the gear on D, pressed the gas pedal and banggg! it hit the sliding door grill. Car was okay but the grill was badly damaged. Luckily, the gap between the sliding door and the grill was quite big so it didn't broke the glass. It happened jussttt a few days before Eid. We didn't blame ayah. But you know as a human, deep inside we just can't run from the whys.

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The metal grill was bend, but the lock was still functioning. It was just that, it needed some technical skills to open the grill, which only we knew! haha. we had to lift it up a bit, turn the key, push the grill hard  then slide. Only mama had the capability! :P I knew the secret but at my age, it was a very complicated task, so let's save that disable grill for mama. Because it was nearly raya, so we planned to repair it after came back from kampung.

On the 2nd day of raya, while we're at kampung, ayah got a phone call from one of our neighbours. They suspected that our house was robbed a night before. Because they saw our pagar dawai hijau was cut. You know corner lot house, selalu keliling ade dawai hijau tuu. We rushed home. While in the car, we prayed hard, hoping that nothing happened to our house. Dah la raya guna duit banyak, grill pulak cacat, kereta calar2, and now a robbery? When we arrived, we checked the house in and out, in and out, but found nothing was missing. and there's no hint that the robbery was succeeded. Then we found a few marks on the front grill, police suspected that the robbers were trying to open the grill with their metal tools but failed. Maybe normally their skills worked, but this time, sorry, only we know how! hehehe

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After sometime, one of the policeman saw another dawai hijau at the back was cut, between our house and the neighbour house. Apparently, the robbers changed their mind because they couldn't get through our magic grill, or maybe because our grill costed them more time and effort, so they moved to our neighbour house. They lost a lot of valuable things including the gold necklace, money, electronic appliances etc. Poor them :(

It was not that I am happy with it, but we would never know if the robbers managed to get into our house as well, they could kill two birds with one stone. That incident hit me hard to accept that Allah jadikan sesuatu mesti ada hikmahnya. If only Ayah didn't hit the grill, we might had lost more than the cost of repairing the grill itself. At some point in life, things will be making more sense.

And after all, Allah is always the best planner.