Midnight by Sister Souljah

Author:Sister Souljah
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-06-21T21:53:31.114000+00:00

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Shower and a fresh cut, I cleaned up nice on Thursday. Al brand new, I was wearing my suede Ralph Lauren dress shirt, Polo jeans and even cracked open a fresh pair of dark brown leather Lo boots with the gold buckle.

I was going to The Palace, an elite hotel in Manhattan, where they dress the doormen up like fools, so the rich could be sure by looking at them, that they were definitely the servants.

Fawzi was staying in this hotel for the next ten days, in a room that was actual y an entire apartment. There was a kitchen, living room, a master bedroom, and three bathrooms. The apartment even had a separate doorbel that chimed.

Fol owing Umma’s instructions, I was delivering his new bride’s new dress, the one she would wear to the mosque for the signing of the marriage contract. I had the scented garment hanging and wrapped and nicely placed in a long silver garment bag.

I took a taxi to the hotel to avoid having the garment tossed and crushed on an overcrowded morning train. I thought about how Fawzi, a Sudanese groom, was responsible to provide everything for his Sudanese bride, and I mean everything.

I was to deliver the dress to him so that he could pre-sent it to the bride’s mother, along with each item they had already negotiated and agreed upon, including the jewelry. Monetary sums would also change hands from Fawzi’s father, to the bride’s father. Everything the bride received according to our traditions would become hers. It is not proper in Islam to take back anything a husband has granted to his wife in the contract. But I guess Fawzi was right in some smal way, whatever he gave to his wife remained with him, because she would remain with him forever.

I was relieved to hand the garment, in perfect condition, over to him.

Afterwards, I had to hurry to col ect deposits on two Umma Designs side orders which customers had placed with the understanding that because of the wedding account we were involved in they would have a longer wait than usual.

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