Brilio.net - Gen Halilintar's mother, Lenggogeni Faruk, caused a stir among netizens about the Haj title given to her fourth child, Thariq Halilintar . During his son's proposal to Aaliyah Massaid some time ago, Geni said that Tariq already had the title of Hajj because he had been to Mecca when he was two months old.
Since then, many netizens have shared the saying 'But Tariq is 2 months old and has already done Hajj' in the comments column of social media posts. Even in some content that is not relevant to this conversation, they write the word as a joke.
After Atta, Geni Faruk, and Tariq gave statements. Now it's Sohwa Halilintar's turn to provide her response regarding her mother's controversial statement. He was seen defending his mother, who is still being heavily criticized by netizens.
photo: Instagram/@sohwahalilintar
The second child of 11 children said that if his parents were crazy about the title "haji", of course they would have stuck with it a long time ago. However, in reality Geni Faruk and her husband Halilintar Anofial Asmid, actually chose to be better known as Gen Halilintar's parents rather than a hajj.
"If you want a title, since the 90s my parents have used a title. But the title is still umi & abi Gen Halilintar," explained Sohwa Halilintar, quoted by brilio.net from TikTok @sohwahalilintar, Wednesday (3/7).
Sohwa said that her parents had instilled religious values since childhood. Therefore, he made sure that his mother knew that Tariq was not eligible for Hajj because he had not yet reached puberty.
"And they are the people who instill the most sense of God from childhood. So there's no way they don't understand that children who haven't yet completed their Hajj are not yet valid," he continued.
photo: Instagram/@sohwahalilintar
According to Sohwa, Geni Faruk's story was just sharing his experience of going on the Hajj while carrying a baby. This is also a form of pride for a mother, who fights to remain by her child's side under any circumstances.
Sohwa revealed that Geni at that time had a principle not to abandon her child if she had not finished breastfeeding for two years. For this reason, Geni Faruk invited Tariq, who was still a baby, to participate in the Hajj.
"Just a mother who tells the story of her child when she was small, her struggles, her difficulties, especially during the Hajj, which is much more difficult than Umrah. Because Mom is the type who can't leave her child if she hasn't finished breastfeeding for 2 years, so she carries it around all the time," explained Sohwa.
"It's told all the time to make people grateful and jokingly 'Hajj Tariq' like that, bro," he added.
Furthermore, Sohwa also talked about the struggles of her parents when they only had her and Atta Halilintar. Geni and her husband are said to have taken turns looking after the children, while attending college until they finally graduated together.
"If you talk about Umi's struggles when I was little, there are more, Umi and Abi took turns at college to look after me and Atta, gave birth to me in the second semester, together with Umi's friends while carrying two children," he said.
Therefore, Aaliyah Massaid's future sister-in-law is very impressed with her parents' struggle in taking care of their children. He also invited netizens to interpret the story of his mother's struggle.
"MasyaAllah it's on Geni, basically it depends on who catches him because he's back again, basically Tariq is already 2 months old," concluded Sohwa.