Dari Arkib: Advencer si Peniup Ney

Membelek-belek himpunan buku nota, terjumpa satu kandungan yang menarik. Buku nota itu rata-ratanya kosong melainkan empat halaman yang mengandungi teks yang disalin dari Advencer Si Peniup Ney karya Faisal Tehrani. Namun, bukan versi asal tetapi dalam terjemahan Bahasa Inggeris.

Melihat tarikh tulisan itu dibuat, saya tersenyum sendiri. Catatan dalam buku nota itu merekodkan tarikh sekitar 6 bulan sebelum bertemu dengan Pn. Ainon dan PTS. Keinginan hendak menulis itu sangat kuat pada masa itu tetapi tidak tahu hendak disalurkan ke mana. Oleh itu, saya menterjermah - aktiviti yang saya anggap sebagai satu senaman minda.

One: Request of the Forty

Dawn after the winter ends, if you look outside the window of  Fatih Mosque, you’ll feel the dew raising up slowly, you’ll hear pairs of bird chirping softly, you’ll see the sun return with it’s warmth, and you’ll witness flowers budding and slowly flourishing into colours.

That dawn was an odd dawn. That’s why it is remembered. The even dawns were less remembered. It is that dawn when Ustaz Sulaiman Hilmi were requested to carry out a peculiar task. Odd as well as heavy.

At the odd dawn, the students of Ustaz Kamal were surprised to see that the saff increase seven rows. Those seven rows were filled by youths sporting beard, shoulder-length hair and wearing white robe, as well as dark blue kopiah. Their face radiant, as if they descended from a province at the peak of the clouds that is so remote, a sky province high above yet filled with fire. Indeed, their origin were unknown, but their rather small eyes and noses not too high and deep black eyes, indicates that they came from a corner of the Far East. All in all the youths are forty people altogether. That is if they really are people.

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