The next day, Abba came back after Maghrib. When he was at Hajiya's side and heard silence and didn't see Ibtihal, he said, "Hajiya, I didn't hear my daughter's movement."
Hajiya said, "That lazy mother of yours is inside, I don't know what is wrong with her. She left her in the girl's room, she won't even sit down to have a long chat with her. She doesn't enter the room at all. She is always on the bed. It is not a small longing I have for Marwan, because he is the one who will sit and have a rich conversation with him, but that one that Yusuf gave them, they have no manners at all."
Abba smiled and said, "There is tiredness still with her, Hajiya, that is why."
Marwan, who was beside Hajiya, laughed and said, "Well Hajiya, maybe we should take her for ruqya. You know the hidden people [spirits] behave like that."
Hajiya said, "May Allah bless you, Marwan. Even me, what I keep turning over in my mind about her matter, there must be hidden people involved. Now you see a person, after a while she becomes something else entirely."
When Ibtihal was coming out, she had tied her veil over her long dress. She glared at Marwan. He opened his eyes wide and laughed and said,
"I repent, Shalelen Abba. I am just joking, but it is no small addition to your beauty that Japan has made, my younger sister."
As soon as she sat down, without looking at him again, she bent down and greeted Abba with much love. He answered her and asked her how her studies ended. She answered, "Alhamdulillahi, Abba. By the way, when I came back they said you were not around, so I felt I shouldn't have come back, I should have waited for the time of your return so we would come back together."
Abba smiled and said, "Even me, my daughter, if I had known the day you would come back, there is nowhere I would have gone. I would have delayed my journey to welcome my Shalelena."
Hajiya said, "Well, all of you should get up and go back [to your rooms]."
