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TATA CARA PELAKSANAAN UMROH.
1. Jika seseorang akan melaksanakan UMROH disunnahkan untuk mandi besar (janabah) terlebih dahulu, memakai wangi-wangian (jika ada) dan memakai pakaian ihram.
2. Tata cara memakai pakaian ihram. Untuk laki-laki berupa dua lembar kain ihram yang dijadikan sarung dan selendang, Sedangkan untuk wanita memakai pakaian yang telah di’isyaratkan untuk menutupi aurot, tidak ada hiasan dan tidak diperbolehkan memakai sarung tangan.
3. Niat untuk melaksanakan umrah dalam hati dan mengucapkan labbaikallahumma bi'umrotin atau labbaika'umrotan. dan setelah itu bertalbiyah suaranya di keraskan bagi laki-laki, dan dengan suara cukup yang bisa di dengar orang yang berada di sampingnya bagi wanita, dengan mengucapkan labbaikallahumma labbaika laa syarika laka labbaik. innal hamda wan ni'mata laka wal mulk laa syarika laka.
4. Jika sudah sampai di kota MAKKAH, maka disunnahkan untukmandi terlebih dahulu sebelum masuk.
5. Sesampai di ka’bah,masuk ke masjidil haram dengan mendahulukan kaki kanan dan membaca doa masuk masjid : “Allahumaf-tahlii abwaba rohmatik.”
6. Menuju ke hajar aswad sambil menyentuhnya dengan tangan kanan dan menciumnya bila mampu dengan mengucapkan Bismillahi wallahu akbar. Jika tidak bisa menyentuh atau menciumnya maka cukup memberi isyarat dan berkata Allahu Akbar.
7. Thawah UMROH sebanyak 7 putaran. Disunnahkan berlari-lari kecil pada 3 putaran pertama dan berjalan biasa di 4 putaran terakhir, yang dimulai dari hajar aswad dan diakhiri di hajar aswad juga.
8. Ketika berada di antara rukun yamani dan hajar aswad disunnahkan membaca : “Robbana atina fiddunya hasanah, wa fill akhiroti hasanah wa qinaadzaban naar.”
9. Setelah melakukan thawaf , kemudian menutup kedua pundaknya lalu menuju makam nabi ibrahim dan sambil membaca “Wattakhodzu mim maqoomi ibrohima musholla.”
10. Shalat sunnah dua raka’at di belakang makam nabi ibrahim. Pada rakaat pertama setelah membaca Al Fatihah kemudian dilanjutkan dengan membaca surat Al-Kafirun, dan pada rakaat kedua setelah membaca surat Al Fatihah kemudian di lanjutkan surat Al Ikhlas.
11. Kemudian, menuju ke bukit shafa untuk melaksanakan sa’i UMROH dan setelah mendekati shafa dianjurkan untuk membaca :” Innash shafaa wal marwatamin sya’aririllah” lalu mengucapkan “Nabda u bimaa bada allah bih”. Kemudian bertakbir 3 kali tanpa isyarat dan mengucapkan Laa ilaha illallahu wahdahu laa syarika lahu. Lahul mulku wa lahul hamdu wahuwa 'alaa kulli syai'in qodir. Laa ilaha illallahu wahdahu anjaza wa'dahu wa shodaqo 'abdahu wa hazamal ahzaaba wahdahu 3x. Kemudian berdoa.
12. Kembali turun adri shafa menuju MARWAH. Disunnahkan berlari-lari kecil di antara dua tanda lampu hijau yang baeda di mas’a (tempat sa’i) bagi laki-laki, dan berjalan biasa menuju menaiki MARWAH .
13. Sesampai di MARWAH kerjakanlah seperti yang dikerjakan di shafa, yaitu dengan menghadap kiblat, bertakbir, membaca dzikir Laa ilaha illallahu wahdahu laa syarika lahu. Lahul mulku wa lahul hamdu wahuwa 'alaa kulli syai'in qodir. Laa ilaha illallahu wahdahu anjaza wa'dahu wa shodaqo 'abdahu wa hazamal ahzaaba wahdahu 3x, dan berdoa apa yang dikehendaki.
14. Kemudian turun menuju ke shafa dengan berjalan di tempat yang sudah di tentukan dan berlari bagi laki-laki di tempat yang sudah di tentukan, kemudian naik ke shafa dan lakukan seperti semula. Lakukan hal ini sebanyak tujuh kali dan dengan berakhir di MARWAH.
15. Setelah sa’i , maka bertahallul dengan mencukur seluruh atau sebagian rambut kepala bagi laki-laki, tetapi lebih afdhal apabila di cukur gundul. Dan bagi wanita cukup memotong rambutnya sebatas ujung jari.
16. Setelah mencukur rambut, maka berakhirlah sudah ibadah UMROH yang dilaksanakan, dan telah diperbolehkan untuk mengerjakan hal-hal yang tadinya dilarang ketika dalam keadaan ihram.
semberani adalah penyedia jasa sewa mobil di Semarang yang telah menawarkan harga murah, terpercaya dan profesional. Semberani Rent berpengalaman yang beroperasi di Semarang, Jepara, Pati, Kudus, Demak, dan Rembang. Semberani telah melayani berbagai kebutuhan sewa transportasi dengan harga sewa murah dan terjangkau untuk perorangan, rombongan, maupun kepentingan instansi atau perusahaan.
Layanan dan Kelebihan Jasa Sewa Mobil Semarang Kami
Jasa sewa mobil Semarang kami, Semberani Rent, telah melayani Paket Wisata ke berbagai tujuan objek wisata menarik di Jawa Tengah. Dengan layanan sewa Door-to-Door Anda juga akan diantar dengan nyaman dari satu lokasi ke lokasi lain seperti menggunakan mobil pribadi. Nikmati juga kepraktisan layanan sewa Antar Jemput Bandara, yaitu Anda akan dijemput dan diantar ke Bandara Ahmad Yani atau Stasiun Kereta Api Tawang Semarang.
Alasan mengapa harus memilih sewa mobil Semarang Semberani karena kami telah menawarkan harga sewa murah, juga namun menyajikan kualitas layanan yang andal dan profesional. Berbagai layanan sewa mobil yang ditawarkan mampu untuk memenuhi kebutuhan transportasi untuk semua kalangan. Praktis, ekonomis, aman, nyaman, harga terjangkau dan memuaskan.
Semberani Rent: Sewa Mobil Semarang
Sewa mobil Semarang di Semberani Rent telah memberikan kenyamanan dengan fasilitas armada baru, berupa Grand New Kijang Innova, New Avanza 2013, dan Xenia R Deluxe 1300 cc yang dilengkapi asuransi mobil (All Risk). Semua mobil sewa dalam kondisi bagus berkat service berkala di Bengkel Resmi Toyota dan Daihatsu (Auto2000). Anda akan diantar oleh sopir pribadi yang berpengalaman, sopan, ramah, sangat mengenal medan, dan mengutamakan keselamatan penumpang.
Cara Booking Sewa Mobil Semarang, Semberani Rent
Sewa Mobil Semarang kami telah menyediakan informasi detail tentang harga sewa, layanan dan fasilitas yang kami berikan di Semberani Rent. Anda juga bisa datang langsung ke kantor jasa Sewa Mobil Semarang Semberani Rent di Jalan Panunggulan No. 2 Pati, atau di Jalan Wonodri Baru Raya No. 27 Semarang.
Anda bisa langsung pesan tiket pesawat dan tiket kereta api untuk semua jurusan, secara online maupun offline (penjualan langsung). Sangat mudah, cepat, dan praktis untuk mendapatkan layanan sewa mobil terbaik dari penyedia jasa sewa mobil terbaik pula.
SEWA MOBIL SEMARANG MURAH NAN MEWAH
Jasa Konsultasi Arsitektur dan Desain Interior berupa gambar desain, gambar kerja sampai pelaksaanaan untuk bangunan rumah tinggal,Ruko, Restoran, Renovasi, Desain Interior untuk rumah, kantor, restaurant, ruko dll.
Harga dapat dinegosiasikan tergantung tingkat kesulitan desain. Jika berminat anda dapat konsultasi via online,sms,tlp atau tatap muka langsung dengan kami. Kami dapat melayani untuk daerah Jabodetabek, Serang, Karawang dan sekitarnya. hubungi :
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saco-indonesia.com, Bentrokan antarwarga telah terjadi di Jalan Yos Sudarso, Sanggeng, Manokwari, Papua Barat, Minggu malam. Peristiwa ini diduga telah dipicu oleh tewasnya seorang bocah. Akibat dari bentrokan tersebut sejumlah bangunan ludes terbakar.
"Ada dari masyarakat Kerukunan Keluarga Sulawesi Selatan (KKSS) infonya ada yang marah, kemudian memalang jalan," ujar Kabid Humas Polda Papua AKBP Pudjo kepada merdeka.com, Senin (30/12).
Mengenai penyebab utama, Pudjo juga mengaku masih belum mendapat informasi yang lebih lanjut. Dia juga belum dapat untuk memastikan adanya korban dan jumlah bangunan yang telah dibakar oleh warga.
"Secara umumnya kita cek apakah cerita yang didapatkan dari semuanya. Kapolres siaga di sana. Untuk lebih lengkapnya, data korban, juga masih belum," katanya.
Untuk saat ini, kata Pudjo, situasi di lokasi juga masih dijaga ketat oleh aparat kepolisian yang dibantu dengan TNI. Namun dia juga belum dapat informasi apakah bentrokan sudah berhenti.
"Belum tahu kondusif atau enggaknya," tandas Pudjo.
Seperti yang diketahui, aksi saling serang antarwarga dengan parang, tombak, dan petasan, telah terjadi kemarin malam. Sejumlah tembakan peringatan juga sempat dilepaskan untuk dapat melerai bentrokan.
Editor : Dian Sukmawati
Sebuah gudang pengecatan suku cadang mobil di Kavling Nomor 9 B, Kelurahan Karang Mulya, Kecamatan Karang Tengah, Kota Tangerang, Kamis (9/1/2014), dilalap api.
Belum dapat diketahui secara pasti apa penyebab terbakarnya gudang itu, namun dugaan sementara api berasal dari atap sebuah ruangan open di gudang itu.
Bedasarkan informasi yang dihimpun di lokasi, peristiwa kebakaran itu baru diketahui sekira pukul 00.15 WIB. Saat itu, Lina, isteri pemilik gudang itu kaget ketika mendengar karyawannya mengeluarkan mobil.
"Saya kaget, kok malam-malam anak buah saya keluarin mobil. Nah pas ada yang teriak kebakaran, saya langsung lihat ke dalam gudang dari kamar saya, ternyata sudah terlihat api di atas ruang open," ungkapnya.
Beruntung, sebanyak lima unit mobil pemadam dari Dinas Pemadam Kebakaran (Damkar) Kota Tangerang, dapat langsung memadamkan api.
Meski tidak ada korban jiwa, namun peristiwa kebakaran itu, sempat membuat panik warga sekitar. "Kaget, takutnya membesar dan merebet ke rumah lainnya," kata Badrun, warga sekitar
GUDANG PENGECATAN SUKU CADANG MOBIL TERBAKAR
WASHINGTON — During a training course on defending against knife attacks, a young Salt Lake City police officer asked a question: “How close can somebody get to me before I’m justified in using deadly force?”
Dennis Tueller, the instructor in that class more than three decades ago, decided to find out. In the fall of 1982, he performed a rudimentary series of tests and concluded that an armed attacker who bolted toward an officer could clear 21 feet in the time it took most officers to draw, aim and fire their weapon.
The next spring, Mr. Tueller published his findings in SWAT magazine and transformed police training in the United States. The “21-foot rule” became dogma. It has been taught in police academies around the country, accepted by courts and cited by officers to justify countless shootings, including recent episodes involving a homeless woodcarver in Seattle and a schizophrenic woman in San Francisco.
Now, amid the largest national debate over policing since the 1991 beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, a small but vocal set of law enforcement officials are calling for a rethinking of the 21-foot rule and other axioms that have emphasized how to use force, not how to avoid it. Several big-city police departments are already re-examining when officers should chase people or draw their guns and when they should back away, wait or try to defuse the situation
Police Rethink Long Tradition on Using ForceAs he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President Obama on Monday found himself thinking about a young man he had just met named Malachi.
A few minutes before, in a closed-door round-table discussion at Lehman College in the Bronx, Mr. Obama had asked a group of black and Hispanic students from disadvantaged backgrounds what could be done to help them reach their goals. Several talked about counseling and guidance programs.
“Malachi, he just talked about — we should talk about love,” Mr. Obama told a crowd afterward, drifting away from his prepared remarks. “Because Malachi and I shared the fact that our dad wasn’t around and that sometimes we wondered why he wasn’t around and what had happened. But really, that’s what this comes down to is: Do we love these kids?”
Many presidents have governed during times of racial tension, but Mr. Obama is the first to see in the mirror a face that looks like those on the other side of history’s ledger. While his first term was consumed with the economy, war and health care, his second keeps coming back to the societal divide that was not bridged by his election. A president who eschewed focusing on race now seems to have found his voice again as he thinks about how to use his remaining time in office and beyond.
At an event announcing the creation of a nonprofit focusing on young minority men, President Obama talked about the underlying reasons for recent protests in Baltimore and other cities.
Obama Speaks of a ‘Sense of Unfairness’
In the aftermath of racially charged unrest in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and New York, Mr. Obama came to the Bronx on Monday for the announcement of a new nonprofit organization that is being spun off from his White House initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. Staked by more than $80 million in commitments from corporations and other donors, the new group, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, will in effect provide the nucleus for Mr. Obama’s post-presidency, which will begin in January 2017.
“This will remain a mission for me and for Michelle not just for the rest of my presidency but for the rest of my life,” Mr. Obama said. “And the reason is simple,” he added. Referring to some of the youths he had just met, he said: “We see ourselves in these young men. I grew up without a dad. I grew up lost sometimes and adrift, not having a sense of a clear path. The only difference between me and a lot of other young men in this neighborhood and all across the country is that I grew up in an environment that was a little more forgiving.”
Organizers said the new alliance already had financial pledges from companies like American Express, Deloitte, Discovery Communications and News Corporation. The money will be used to help companies address obstacles facing young black and Hispanic men, provide grants to programs for disadvantaged youths, and help communities aid their populations.
Joe Echevarria, a former chief executive of Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, will lead the alliance, and among those on its leadership team or advisory group are executives at PepsiCo, News Corporation, Sprint, BET and Prudential Group Insurance; former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey; former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; the music star John Legend; the retired athletes Alonzo Mourning, Jerome Bettis and Shaquille O’Neal; and the mayors of Indianapolis, Sacramento and Philadelphia.
The alliance, while nominally independent of the White House, may face some of the same questions confronting former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she begins another presidential campaign. Some of those donating to the alliance may have interests in government action, and skeptics may wonder whether they are trying to curry favor with the president by contributing.
“The Obama administration will have no role in deciding how donations are screened and what criteria they’ll set at the alliance for donor policies, because it’s an entirely separate entity,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One en route to New York. But he added, “I’m confident that the members of the board are well aware of the president’s commitment to transparency.”
The alliance was in the works before the disturbances last week after the death of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered fatal injuries while in police custody in Baltimore, but it reflected the evolution of Mr. Obama’s presidency. For him, in a way, it is coming back to issues that animated him as a young community organizer and politician. It was his own struggle with race and identity, captured in his youthful memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” that stood him apart from other presidential aspirants.
But that was a side of him that he kept largely to himself through the first years of his presidency while he focused on other priorities like turning the economy around, expanding government-subsidized health care and avoiding electoral land mines en route to re-election.
After securing a second term, Mr. Obama appeared more emboldened. Just a month after his 2013 inauguration, he talked passionately about opportunity and race with a group of teenage boys in Chicago, a moment aides point to as perhaps the first time he had spoken about these issues in such a personal, powerful way as president. A few months later, he publicly lamented the death of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager, saying that “could have been me 35 years ago.”
That case, along with public ruptures of anger over police shootings in Ferguson and elsewhere, have pushed the issue of race and law enforcement onto the public agenda. Aides said they imagined that with his presidency in its final stages, Mr. Obama might be thinking more about what comes next and causes he can advance as a private citizen.
That is not to say that his public discussion of these issues has been universally welcomed. Some conservatives said he had made matters worse by seeming in their view to blame police officers in some of the disputed cases.
“President Obama, when he was elected, could have been a unifying leader,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican candidate for president, said at a forum last week. “He has made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions.”
On the other side of the ideological spectrum, some liberal African-American activists have complained that Mr. Obama has not done enough to help downtrodden communities. While he is speaking out more, these critics argue, he has hardly used the power of the presidency to make the sort of radical change they say is necessary.
The line Mr. Obama has tried to straddle has been a serrated one. He condemns police brutality as he defends most officers as honorable. He condemns “criminals and thugs” who looted in Baltimore while expressing empathy with those trapped in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness.
In the Bronx on Monday, Mr. Obama bemoaned the death of Brian Moore, a plainclothes New York police officer who had died earlier in the day after being shot in the head Saturday on a Queens street. Most police officers are “good and honest and fair and care deeply about their communities,” even as they put their lives on the line, Mr. Obama said.
“Which is why in addressing the issues in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York, the point I made was that if we’re just looking at policing, we’re looking at it too narrowly,” he added. “If we ask the police to simply contain and control problems that we ourselves have been unwilling to invest and solve, that’s not fair to the communities, it’s not fair to the police.”
Moreover, if society writes off some people, he said, “that’s not the kind of country I want to live in; that’s not what America is about.”
His message to young men like Malachi Hernandez, who attends Boston Latin Academy in Massachusetts, is not to give up.
“I want you to know you matter,” he said. “You matter to us.”
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Rolf Smedvig, Trumpeter in the Empire Brass, Dies at 62BEIJING (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Nationalists reaffirmed the party's support for eventual unification with the mainland when he met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of continuing rapprochement between the former bitter enemies.
Nationalist Party Chairman Eric Chu, a likely presidential candidate next year, also affirmed Taiwan's desire to join the proposed Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank during the meeting in Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and doesn't want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country.
Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television.
The Nationalists were driven to Taiwan by Mao Zedong's Communists during the Chinese civil war in 1949, leading to decades of hostility between the sides. Chu, who took over as party leader in January, is the third Nationalist chairman to visit the mainland and the first since 2009.
Relations between the communist-ruled mainland and the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan began to warm in the 1990s, partly out of their common opposition to Taiwan's formal independence from China, a position advocated by the island's Democratic Progressive Party.
Despite increasingly close economic ties, the prospect of political unification has grown increasingly unpopular on Taiwan, especially with younger voters. Opposition to the Nationalists' pro-China policies was seen as a driver behind heavy local electoral defeats for the party last year that led to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as party chairman.
Taiwan party leader affirms eventual reunion with ChinaWith 12 tournament victories in his career, Mr. Peete was the most successful black professional golfer before Tiger Woods.
Calvin Peete, 71, a Racial Pioneer on the PGA Tour, Is DeadUnder Mr. Michelin’s leadership, which ended when he left the company in 2002, the Michelin Group became the world’s biggest tire maker, establishing a big presence in the United States and other major markets overseas.
François Michelin, Head of Tire Company, Dies at 88GREENWICH, Conn. — Mago is in the bedroom. You can go in.
The big man lies on a hospital bed with his bare feet scraping its bottom rail. His head is propped on a scarlet pillow, the left temple dented, the right side paralyzed. His dark hair is kept just long enough to conceal the scars.
The occasional sounds he makes are understood only by his wife, but he still has that punctuating left hand. In slow motion, the fingers curl and close. A thumbs-up greeting.
Hello, Mago.
This is Magomed Abdusalamov, 34, also known as the Russian Tyson, also known as Mago. He is a former heavyweight boxer who scored four knockouts and 14 technical knockouts in his first 18 professional fights. He preferred to stand between rounds. Sitting conveyed weakness.
But Mago lost his 19th fight, his big chance, at the packed Theater at Madison Square Garden in November 2013. His 19th decision, and his last.
Now here he is, in a small bedroom in a working-class neighborhood in Greenwich, in a modest house his family rents cheap from a devoted friend. The air-pressure machine for his mattress hums like an expectant crowd.
Today is like any other day, except for those days when he is hurried in crisis to the hospital. Every three hours during the night, his slight wife, Bakanay, 28, has risen to turn his 6-foot-3 body — 210 pounds of dead weight. It has to be done. Infections of the gaping bedsore above his tailbone have nearly killed him.
Then, with the help of a young caretaker, Baka has gotten two of their daughters off to elementary school and settled down the toddler. Yes, Mago and Baka are blessed with all girls, but they had also hoped for a son someday.
They feed Mago as they clean him; it’s easier that way. For breakfast, which comes with a side of crushed antiseizure pills, he likes oatmeal with a squirt of Hershey’s chocolate syrup. But even oatmeal must be puréed and fed to him by spoon.
He opens his mouth to indicate more, the way a baby does. But his paralysis has made everything a choking hazard. His water needs a stirring of powdered food thickener, and still he chokes — eh-eh-eh — as he tries to cough up what will not go down.
Mago used to drink only water. No alcohol. Not even soda. A sip of juice would be as far as he dared. Now even water betrays him.
With the caretaker’s help, Baka uses a washcloth and soap to clean his body and shampoo his hair. How handsome still, she has thought. Sometimes, in the night, she leaves the bedroom to watch old videos, just to hear again his voice in the fullness of life. She cries, wipes her eyes and returns, feigning happiness. Mago must never see her sad.
When Baka finishes, Mago is cleanshaven and fresh down to his trimmed and filed toenails. “I want him to look good,” she says.
Theirs was an arranged Muslim marriage in Makhachkala, in the Russian republic of Dagestan. He was 23, she was 18 and their future hinged on boxing. Sometimes they would shadowbox in love, her David to his Goliath. You are so strong, he would tell her.
His father once told him he could either be a bandit or an athlete, but if he chose banditry, “I will kill you.” This paternal advice, Mago later told The Ventura County Reporter, “made it a very easy decision for me.”
Mago won against mediocre competition, in Moscow and Hollywood, Fla., in Las Vegas and Johnstown, Pa. He was knocked down only once, and even then, it surprised more than hurt. He scored a technical knockout in the next round.
It all led up to this: the undercard at the Garden, Mike Perez vs. Magomed Abdusalamov, 10 rounds, on HBO. A win, he believed, would improve his chances of taking on the heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, who sat in the crowd of 4,600 with his fiancée, the actress Hayden Panettiere, watching.
Wearing black-and-red trunks and a green mouth guard, Mago went to work. But in the first round, a hard forearm to his left cheek rocked him. At the bell, he returned to his corner, and this time, he sat down. “I think it’s broken,” he repeatedly said in Russian.
Maybe at that point, somebody — the referee, the ringside doctors, his handlers — should have stopped the fight, under a guiding principle: better one punch too early than one punch too late. But the bloody trade of blows continued into the seventh, eighth, ninth, a hand and orbital bone broken, his face transforming.
Meanwhile, in the family’s apartment in Miami, Baka forced herself to watch the broadcast. She could see it in his swollen eyes. Something was off.
After the final round, Perez raised his tattooed arms in victory, and Mago wandered off in a fog. He had taken 312 punches in about 40 minutes, for a purse of $40,000.
In the locker room, doctors sutured a cut above Mago’s left eye and tested his cognitive abilities. He did not do well. The ambulance that waits in expectation at every fight was not summoned by boxing officials.
Blood was pooling in Mago’s cranial cavity as he left the Garden. He vomited on the pavement while his handlers flagged a taxi to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. There, doctors induced a coma and removed part of his skull to drain fluids and ease the swelling.
Then came the stroke.
It is lunchtime now, and the aroma of puréed beef and potatoes lingers. So do the questions.
How will Mago and Baka pay the $2 million in medical bills they owe? What if their friend can no longer offer them this home? Will they win their lawsuits against the five ringside doctors, the referee, and a New York State boxing inspector? What about Mago’s future care?
Most of all: Is this it?
A napkin rests on Mago’s chest. As another spoonful of mush approaches, he opens his mouth, half-swallows, chokes, and coughs until it clears. Eh-eh-eh. Sometimes he turns bluish, but Baka never shows fear. Always happy for Mago.
Some days he is wheeled out for physical therapy or speech therapy. Today, two massage therapists come to knead his half-limp body like a pair of skilled corner men.
Soon, Mago will doze. Then his three daughters, ages 2, 6 and 9, will descend upon him to talk of their day. Not long ago, the oldest lugged his championship belt to school for a proud show-and-tell moment. Her classmates were amazed at the weight of it.
Then, tonight, there will be more puréed food and pulverized medication, more coughing, and more tender care from his wife, before sleep comes.
Goodbye, Mago.
He half-smiles, raises his one good hand, and forms a fist.
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