Quran Cordoba - Bandung that afternoon, May 30, 2025, rain. After ghurub, some have subsided and left wet and distinctive smell. How is Bandung after it rains, Pakji? Is it true that people say that as beautiful and as comfortable as Bandung after it rains?

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Nearly five full moon ago, that day I sat in a chair in a shy style and confused typical of new children. Pakji, as soon as I knew him after being introduced by Pak Rofi. "Ayi, Mr. Lutfi's team.", "Oh, yes ... Vidi.", His name, Pakji. One of the few names that had been stuck in my memory as a new child at that time. Not Mr. Vidi, but Pakji. 

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Perhaps I escaped or maybe he was busy outside Sukajadi 215, like a star during the day, rarely I saw Pakji. Until lately, I often meet, shake hands, and a little stale or just realize that Pakji is across I was sitting while staring at the laptop and discussing with Mr. Lutfi. 

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Still in my memory, not long ago, how Pakji delivered his analysis of online sales of several other publishers. Still an imprint how Pakji asked, "I like this ... this is Nahawand, huh?" While offering the strains of the holy verse, "Tsumma Aurotsna al-Kitaaba al-Ladziina Asthofainaa Min 'IBAADINA ... (QS 35: 32)". I noticed, "Bayyati, Pakji ...", I said with his pedestal. 

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Still warm in my ears and eyes, how Pakji is excited even though it looks lacking stamina asking his friends when futsal to share the ball with him. That afternoon, even though the sky was bright bright, but who would have thought tomorrow would rain? Who would have thought the day after tomorrow will be a storm? Who would have thought? God is the only one who knows everything.

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How, Pakji? How is Bandung after rain? 

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After the rain that night, it might stop at several points, but instead enlarged in Cordoba. Pakji passed away, innaalillaahi wa innaa ilaihi raaji'un. Maybe it's just an assumption, but perhaps highlighting a sad face and did not expect what I saw on Mr. Usman's face after hearing the news illustrates how Cordoba lost one of his best soldiers. It is also illustrated how boisterous prayers and canopy loss echoed from each of his brothers in the WhatsApp Cordoba group. "O God, Mr. Vidi ...", so the echo.

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Not a long time to get to know someone, whether right or wrong this narrative, but this is a portrait that I remember from him, Pakji. A person who is rather funny, excited and of course the favorite priest when the prayer is not held in the mosque, but in the middle of the working area on the first floor Sukajadi 215. 

Now Pakji is calm in the Bekasi land. Although there, but the services and light will be eternal throughout Cordoba, in millions of Al-Qur'an Cordoba Manuscripts spread throughout the world. Warm greetings, Pakji. Sorry if I and maybe some of your siblings in Cordoba were unable to take you to your eternal house there. 

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I don't know where the wind was from, but there was a sound that moved me to write this obituary. Pakji, ... God willing, is part of "Faminhum Saabiqun Bi Al-Khoiraat" which gets "Fadlu al-Kabir" as his favorite verse (QS 35: 32). Al-Faatihah ...

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Ayi Yusri A. Tirmidzi

Kids & Books Editor