India

"Jiju.." she whispered amidst the agony that pricked at her eyes. She was unable to complete the sentence.
"Jiju what hana? What happened to jiju??"  Asked hamza
"Hamz.. Jiju...is no more...." hana said with much struggle and she felt hamza loosen his caring hold over her.
He collapsed unable to hold himself.
After minutes of silence, a soft whisper of "inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'oon" escaped his lips and hana realizing she was so lost in pain and hadn't supplicated, repeated after him.
Now came the most difficult part. Conveying it to their parents.
The siblings prayed two rak'ah of nafl salah, pouring out their pain in front of The One who alone knew the wisdom behind His plans.
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Canada (a week later)

If pain could be seen, she was it.
The sun never rose over her life since the day Ahmed died. She was lost. She was so really lost.
Her family flew to canada the very next day and they could not help her in anyway.. It was a great loss indeed.

It was a week since the death of Ahmed and husna went on to be a total robot. No matter how much samina tried into getting some reaction from her friend, she failed.
Even her parents just couldnt comfort her, their hearts were shattered too.
Who else can understand our pain better than them after Allaah?
Even now, as they sat in the flight to return back to India, husna did not speak or respond in the slightest way.
This was a wrong sign. She needs to let the pain out.
She did not even look or respond to her children. The children who were her life. But who could tell anything, her life was itself taken away from her.

If she was breathing, the only reason was,
'Hasbi allaah' 'Allaah is sufficient for me'.
She kept on reciting that ayah. On and on. It was like, her heart was beating with that dhikr.
And how beautiful a dhikr was that. It makes us realize that everyone and everything in this world will perish. A healthy man may be breathing his last moments.. we never know.
Only Allah will remain and thus we rely on Him. Thus He alone is sufficient for us.