About A Bakin Aurenki

A Bakin Aurenki Complete Hausa Novel is an emotional Hausa marriage
story about love, anger, pride, regret, and the painful consequences of stubbornness
inside marriage.

The story focuses on Salma and Ja’afar, a couple who once shared deep love before marriage.
But after marriage, Salma’s behavior begins to change, and Ja’afar’s patience reaches a
dangerous limit. When Salma disobeys his warning and leaves the house, he decides to teach
her a bitter lesson.

The opening also takes readers back to how Salma and Ja’afar first met, showing the
softness of their beginning before the bitterness of their present conflict.

A Bakin Aurenki English Translation

Salma Returns Home In Fear

She was walking fast, as if something had frightened her. From the way she moved, anyone
could tell she had done something wrong.

When she reached the street that would lead her to her house, she stopped like a guilty
person and peeped carefully. Quickly, she pulled her head back and held her chest, which
felt as if it would burst.

“I have entered trouble. Ja’afar?”

She said this while peeping again. Suddenly, their eyes met.

Her heartbeat increased. She had never seen him in that state before.

“Why did you go out after he told you not to go out?”

She used the edge of her black veil to wipe the sweat forming on her face. With effort,
she came out from where she had hidden, even forcing a serious face as if she had not
seen him.

Looking sideways, she walked toward the door of the house, pretending she did not notice
his condition.

Suddenly, she stopped.

She saw that he had added another padlock on top of the one she had used to lock the
house.

With forced courage, her face still turned aside, she asked:

“Why is it like this?”

He did not answer.

She repeated:

“Ya Ja’afar, why is it like this?”

He was boiling with anger. He felt like covering her with beating because of frustration.
So all the promises Salma had made to him about changing her ways had only stopped on
her lips?

He opened the car and tried to enter.

Quickly, Salma moved toward him.

“Ja’afar, I am talking to you.”

In anger, he turned as if to slap her. She quickly stepped back, her heart falling.

Truly, she had touched a man’s anger today.

With a face full of rage, he looked at her with contempt and said:

“You chose the naming ceremony over my condition, right? Then why did you come back to
my house? Or have you forgotten the condition I gave you? If you go out, then you have
gone out at the edge of your marriage.”

Her eyes widened as she stared at him. Then she hardened herself and said:

“At the edge of my marriage, Ja’afar? Just because I went to a naming ceremony, you are
foaming like this?”

She ended the words while twisting her face at him.

He only shook his head and entered the car.

When she realized he was truly leaving, she dropped her stubborn attitude and began
calling him. But he did not answer. He turned the car sharply and drove away.

She quickly moved aside because it looked as if he could run over her.

When she saw that he was serious, fear filled her. She placed her hand on her head in
regret for going to a naming ceremony where she had not even been invited.

“I am finished, Salma. I have brought disaster on myself.”

Then she remembered:

“So the second rope of my marriage has broken?”

Sweat poured from her body as she remembered her father’s warning:

“The day you repeat this again, Salma, I will break your leg if you step toward my house.”

Her fear increased. She knew very well that Baba could truly do that to her.

She looked around. Evening had already approached, and she did not even know where to
start from.

She moved toward the edge of the house platform and sat down. With both hands, she held
her head.

Ja’afar’s words returned to her mind:

“If you go out, then you have gone out at the edge of your marriage.”

Ja’afar Plans Another Marriage

Garba shook his head and said:

“Marriage is not the solution, Ja’afar. Fix the woman in your hand first. I do not think
this is good advice.”

Ja’afar smiled and shook his head.

“I know. But you understand that I am not doing it for pleasure. I know there is nothing
Salma hates like hearing that I will marry another woman. I must let her taste the
bitterness she made me taste.”

Garba smiled while looking at him.

So today Ja’afar was talking about making his Salma taste bitterness?

He shook his head.

Truly, Salma had played with her chance. Garba knew how deeply Ja’afar loved her, but
now things had reached a dangerous point because she had started testing his patience
deliberately.

Garba said:

“I will not give my final opinion. I know that between you and Salma, only Allah knows.
But think carefully, my friend. Do not make a decision in anger and later regret it.”

Ja’afar twisted his mouth, brought out keys from his pocket, and handed them to Garba.

“Take your car keys. As for marriage, I have already done it and finished it. And I am
marrying Bintu. Watch and see.”

Garba’s eyes widened as he stared at him. Then he burst into laughter.

“You have taken up real work. You will also plant suspicion in Salma’s heart because you
know everything.”

Ja’afar hissed and said:

“That is exactly what I want. It will make her more angry.”

Garba shook his head while holding back laughter.

“Let us go so I can drop you, husband of Salma and Bintu. This scene will be interesting
to watch, wallahi.”

He ended with mischievous laughter.

Ja’afar only smiled as they entered the car. Throughout the journey home, Garba kept
teasing him about how things would become between him, Salma, and Bintu.

Salma Sleeps Away From Ja’afar

As for Salma, night came while she lay in her old room, turning from side to side. Even
she did not know the reason for her restlessness.

Deep inside, she was still angry at Ja’afar for humiliating her. But whenever she
remembered that one rope of her marriage had broken, her heart became unsettled.

Today, she was lying on a mattress, not beside her Ja’afar.

Today, her connection with her usual pillow, Ja’afar’s shoulder, had been replaced with
an ordinary pillow.

She touched her cheek and, to her surprise, realized that she was crying.

Finally, she broke into tears.

Anyone who saw her would know she was missing her Ja’afar and feeling deep regret. But
her heart refused to admit that truth.

Mosquitoes disturbed her ears with noise despite the mosquito net separating her from
them. The room was hot because there was no electricity and no generator.

She knew that if she were in her own home, she would now be enjoying the air from the
generator that Ja’afar usually turned on every night for her because she disliked heat.

Mama had already said no one should start the generator because Baba was not around and
he had not left money for fuel.

Ja’afar was also in a similar condition.

He lay in the room, staring at the fan turning above him. The truth was that there was
still no one above Salma in his heart.

He loved her deeply, beyond measure, especially when he remembered the love they had
built before marriage.

If anyone had told him back then that Salma would completely change after marriage,
especially toward him, he would never have believed it.

He turned, pulled a pillow close, and hissed quietly.

Despite everything, he missed Salma.

Then he stood and went outside to turn off the generator.

Salma’s Family Background

Salma Umar was the second daughter of Mama, Hajiya Rabi’a, and Baba, Malam Umar. They
were originally from Yobe, but business brought their grandfather to Kano, and that was
where Salma’s family settled.

Their grandfather, Malam Bukar Mai Buhu, had two sons. Salma’s father was the younger
one, while his elder brother was Baba Aji.

Baba Aji had about sixteen children, while Salma’s father had three: Aisha, called Aunty
A’i, who was much older than Salma; then Salma; and finally Ummi.

Business was their inheritance. Even after their grandfather died, Salma’s father and his
brother continued managing what remained. They helped one another, and because of that,
the family remained united, even though they were not extremely rich.

According to their ability, they gave their children education and upbringing. Salma’s
father was especially strict.

However, Salma’s mother believed their beauty was a kind of investment, since Allah had
blessed her with three daughters. She began with Aunty A’i, and what she wanted came to
her through her.

The girls were not ugly. They had the natural beauty of Kanuri people, mixed with their
mother’s Shuwa background. They were not fair-skinned; they could be called black beauties.
Their secret beauty lay in their body shape, thick hair, and dimples, which looked as if
they had been placed on them one by one.

Because of this, Aunty A’i’s marriage prospects rose quickly, and Mama’s dream began to
come true. That made her set an even higher ambition for the rest, especially Salma, who
was the tallest among them.

As for Salma, she did not even know such plans were being made.

How Salma First Met Ja’afar

Because Baba’s shop became two, work increased for him. He no longer had enough time to
return home for food, so Ummi or Salma would take food to him.

One day, Salma took food to him after preparing for Islamiyya school.

After placing the food down, she stood uncertainly, looking as if something had happened
to her at home.

Her father smiled and said:

“Come here. What happened to you, my daughter?”

Tears gathered in her eyes, showing anger.

“Mama refused to give me transport money.”

Her father shook his head with a smile. He dipped his hand into his pocket but found no
change. He brought out one hundred naira and pointed to the nearby shop, telling her to
go and get change.

She entered the shop with a greeting. The shop sold women’s clothing, including Ankara,
lace, and different materials. Although she had passed there many times, she had never
entered the shop until that day.

“Salamatu, young girl, where are Ummi and the others?”

She smiled at him because she often saw him with her father. The elderly man was kind
and cheerful.

But the young man in the shop did not even look at her.

“They are at home. Baba said I should get change.”

The elderly man nodded, then looked at the young man sitting inside the shop with a book
in his hand.

“Ja’afar.”

The young man raised his head for the first time.

“Yes, Abba.”

That was when he noticed Salma.

Abba said:

“Give Salma twenty naira so she can go before she becomes late.”

Ja’afar nodded and looked again at Salma, who was stretching her neck to see whether she
would spot any student from her Islamiyya school.

“Take it.”

She turned and saw him stretching money toward her with a face that carried no smile.

Quickly, she collected it and left, saying:

“Thank you, Abba.”

Ja’afar watched her as she left. He had thought Ummi was the only restless one, not
knowing that the others were also like that.

Customers came and interrupted him, so he entered the shop and continued working.

The next day, Salma returned again. This time, she did not even go to her father’s shop.
She came straight to Ja’afar’s shop.

There were people inside, mostly young women shopping. When Ja’afar saw Salma, he frowned.
He strongly disliked wasting money on children.

Salma, however, even smiled at him and raised her hand as if she had something inside it.

He hissed and continued what he was doing.

After he had attended to all the customers, he saw her greeting his father outside. His
father then pointed her toward the shop.

She entered quickly. Ja’afar assumed that his father had sent her to collect more money.

She greeted him eagerly and began:

“Abba said I should…”

He interrupted her angrily:

“I do not have change today. Yesterday, you were given money and enjoyed it, right?”

He suddenly stopped when he saw her eyes filled with tears as she looked at him.

His body softened.

Slowly, she placed the twenty naira from yesterday on the bench before him and turned
away, wiping tears.

Had she really returned to repay the money, and he had scolded her?

Quickly, he picked up the money, intending to call her and return it, but she had already
gone far.

He remained seated until Abba returned.

Abba asked:

“Did you see Salamatu? She said yesterday’s money was too much, so she came to return it.”

Ja’afar quickly looked at his father.

“Abba, money?”

A Bakin Aurenki Novel Details

• Novel Title: A Bakin Aurenki
• Category: Complete Hausa Novels
• Language: English Translation
• Main Characters: Salma and Ja’afar
• Other Characters: Garba, Bintu, Mama, Baba, Ummi, Aunty A’i, Abba
• Main Themes: Marriage conflict, love, stubbornness, regret, jealousy, second marriage, family background, and emotional pride
• Setting: Kano family homes, shops, and marital home

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Why You Should Read A Bakin Aurenki Complete Hausa Novel

A Bakin Aurenki Complete Hausa Novel is perfect for readers who enjoy
emotional Hausa marriage stories about love after marriage, jealousy, stubbornness,
regret, and the pain of couples who still love each other but allow pride to come between
them.

Salma and Ja’afar’s story is interesting because both of them are suffering from the
same separation, yet both are too proud to admit the truth. Ja’afar’s threat of marrying
Bintu adds tension and makes the story more emotional.

Frequently Asked Questions About A Bakin Aurenki Complete Hausa Novel

What is A Bakin Aurenki about?

A Bakin Aurenki is about Salma and Ja’afar, a married couple whose love
is tested by stubbornness, anger, disobedience, jealousy, and the threat of a second
marriage.

Who is Salma in A Bakin Aurenki?

Salma is the main female character. She is Ja’afar’s wife and a stubborn woman whose
actions push her marriage into serious conflict.

Who is Ja’afar?

Ja’afar is Salma’s husband. He loves her deeply but becomes angry because of her behavior
and decides to punish her emotionally.

Why does Ja’afar lock Salma out?

Ja’afar locks Salma out because she went out after he warned her not to. He had already
told her that if she went out, she would be leaving at the edge of her marriage.

Why does Ja’afar mention marrying Bintu?

Ja’afar mentions marrying Bintu because he knows Salma hates the idea of him taking
another wife, and he wants her to feel the bitterness she made him feel.

What is the main lesson in A Bakin Aurenki?

The main lesson is that pride, anger, and stubbornness can damage a marriage even when
love still exists between husband and wife.

Is this an English translation of A Bakin Aurenki?

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