THE JOURNEY AND SOJOURN OF ILIYA

ILIYA IN MANGU

The sun is about to fall, and the environment look so cloudy, while Iliya is close to Mangu, few kilometer away.

Iliyas'  mother is in great boredom and perplex. "It's after 5 and I can't see him, where did he go? while he knows that he is going back to school today, if this boy come back, I must stroke him with some lashes of cane" she bitterly lamented.

"I doubt if Iliya didn't run away, for when I informed him about his resumption, he murmured and mumbled, he even told me that he don't want to go back to that school again, because he think they're treating him inhumanely, while not knowing that they're preparing him for lifes  battle and to make him a better person. If you didn't suffer, how do you think you'll be strong and be ready for struggles of life, so that to enjoy the future, there's not two ways about this, you must suffer, perseverance is the only option" Iliyas' father added.

In the last minute to reach Mangu, everybody is busy gisting in the car, only Iliya that goes in a long silence, he's completely mute. He was plunged in a vertex of confusion and bewilderment, over what to do if he reaches Mangu. While busy trying to sort and come up with the solution of his problem, he just hear vooooooooooom, the car roared, "toh mun isa" the driver said in their native language. Everybody drop out of the car, and have their way like a group of birds sitting on a tree been catapult. Iliya       found himself in a state of adversity and great discombobulation with disarray, he didn't know anybody there, he begin to see things moving from bad to worse. The worst one is that he has no enough money to sustain his life and hindered himself from starving, he is in middle of no where.

Necessity is the mother of invention as stated by people with elitist mind, a thought nudge his mind that he should only look for a mosque and seek for assistance, for he's a Muslim. But the place is a Christian based community, where figuring out a mosque is not a small task, because Muslims are the least minority there.