Yayan Miji Book 1 Complete Hausa Novel
Yayan Miji Book 1 Complete Hausa Novel begins with Aisha’s difficult life as a young wife in a house filled with hostility. Though she tries to serve her husband and his family with patience, the children of the house treat her with bitterness, suspicion, and rejection.
Yayan Miji Book 1 Complete Hausa Novel English Translation
She was seated on the chair in front of the mirror, applying Body Shop lotion.
After finishing, she took humra and kulacca and rubbed them gently on her body. Then she picked up her long, smooth purple nightgown and wore it.
She sprayed Argan Oil hair spray on her hair, tied it with a ribbon, and covered it with a cap. After that, she sprayed Sandra perfume from the Al Rehab collection.
Then she tied a wrapper over her nightwear, wore her hijab, picked up her phone, and left the room, closing the door behind her.
In the corridor leading to her husband’s room, she met Ummi, who had just come out from their father’s parlor.
Ummi looked at her from head to toe, hissed, and said, “Betrayer of trust. So you have come out, heading to the old man’s room. Continue forcing yourself where you have no dignity. What you came here for, you will never get it. As long as we are in this house, even drinking water will become difficult for you.”
She continued, “You do not know loyalty at all. If you had any, how could you fail to find a husband until you chose Daddy? He is Mami’s husband. If you have forgotten, I am reminding you.”
She pushed past Aisha and walked away, leaving her standing in the corridor like someone planted there.
Aisha stood there for more than five minutes after Ummi left. With difficulty, she forced her heavy legs to move and continued toward Daddy’s room.
Aisha Enters Daddy’s Room
Slowly, she pushed the door and greeted.
He answered from inside.
He was sitting on the bed, checking some documents.
“I hope you are resting well, Daddy,” she said after folding the hijab and wrapper she had worn over her nightgown. It was his rule that whenever she entered his room, he did not want to see her fully covered in hijab.
She asked, “Is there anything you need before I sleep?”
He did not answer her greeting. For a moment, it looked as if he would not respond to her question either. Then he finally said, “I want black tea.”
She wore her wrapper and hijab again and left.
She went to the kitchen and placed water on the fire. She added two Lipton tea bags and some spices. When it boiled, she added one teaspoon of strawberry flavor.
After it boiled well, she poured it into a flask and placed it on a tray with a cup, spoon, and honey because Daddy did not take sugar. He used honey instead.
She carried the tray back to his room.
She found him still sitting where she had left him.
She placed the tray on the bedside drawer, then went into the bathroom and prepared his bath water.
When she came out, she informed him, then climbed onto the bed and lay down.
She did not know when he stood because sleep had already begun to overtake her. Later, she felt him seeking her attention, and she had to wake fully and attend to him as his wife.
The Morning Routine
After praying Subhi, she went straight to the kitchen because it was her husband’s habit that his family did not eat food prepared by servants.
Since she had planned from the night before to prepare waina and sinasir, she began frying them immediately after entering the kitchen. She also prepared a rich taushe soup filled with good ingredients, including dried fish.
Before eight o’clock, she had finished everything. She arranged the food in warmers and placed it on the dining table.
After that, she went back to her room, bathed, and dressed in a blue and yellow Julius Holland ankara outfit sewn as a free-fitted skirt and blouse.
She did not bother much with makeup. She only applied powder and lip balm, tied the matching headscarf, and went to Daddy’s room.
She found him in front of the mirror, fixing his rank on his uniform because he was a soldier with the rank of major general.
She squatted and greeted him.
He answered quietly, the same way he usually answered anything she said.
Even now, she had still not become used to Daddy as her husband. The fear she had always had for him from the beginning had never left her. And he was not helping matters either, because he still treated her the same way he used to treat her before. The only difference was that she was now his wife, and she had duties toward him.
She was lost in thought and did not know when he left the room until she heard the sound of the door closing.
Quickly, she stood and followed him so she could serve his food.
Breakfast With the Children
She found him at the dining table with the children of the house.
“Good morning,” she greeted them as she pulled a chair and sat down.
She greeted because she knew none of them would speak to her unless she spoke first. Even then, only Yaya Khalifa answered her greeting.
She took a plate and served Daddy waina and sinasir. She poured the soup into a bowl and also poured groundnut pap into a cup for him. Then she served herself and began eating.
They had gone far into the meal when she noticed that Mu’azzam had not touched his food.
Daddy also noticed and asked why he was not eating.
Mu’azzam opened his mouth and said, “Fisabilillahi, Daddy. How can someone eat sinasir this early as breakfast unless they want his stomach to get blocked? I have noticed that this woman does whatever she likes in this house.”
Aisha expected Daddy to scold him because it was not the first time waina and sinasir had been served as breakfast. In fact, they had a food timetable for the whole day, from morning to night, and it had been like that since Mami was alive. Aisha had not changed anything.
But instead of correcting Mu’azzam, Daddy turned to her and said, “Why did you cook something you know not everyone likes? From now on, if you want to cook, you must ask them what they want before preparing it so that nobody will be served what he dislikes. Now stand up and cook something else for him. He cannot go to school without breakfast.”
Daddy’s words shook her deeply, but there was nothing she could do except obey him.
She looked at Mu’azzam, whose face carried a victorious smile, and asked, “What do you want me to cook for you?”
Arrogantly, he replied, “Indomie and egg.”
She went to the kitchen and prepared the noodles for him.
By the time she finished and brought it, no one was left in the parlor except him. That meant Daddy had gone out without saying goodbye to her.
She placed the food on the table and turned to leave.
She had already reached the stairs and was about to go up when she heard him say, “Did you not hear?”
She turned and looked at him, waiting for what he would say.
He smiled and said, “What you have seen is only the beginning.”
She turned away and continued climbing the stairs.
She went to Daddy’s room and began cleaning it, from the bedroom to the bathroom and sitting room.
Aisha and the Girls
One Saturday evening, she was seated in the sitting room, watching a movie on MBC2.
Farida and Ummie entered and sat down.
Farida picked up the remote and changed the channel to Music Plus.
Aisha raised her head and looked at them. They had come and met her watching something, then changed it intentionally, waiting for her to complain so they could insult her.
Farida said, “Say something if it will not kill you.”
Aisha looked away as if she did not know Farida was speaking to her.
Suddenly, Ruqaiya and Zainab ran in, rushing to climb on her.
They said, “Aunty Aisha, we are back.”
With a smile, she lifted them and said, “Welcome back. Now go and remove your uniforms and prepare for Maghrib prayer, alright?”
Together, they answered, “Alright,” and began going to change out of their Islamiyya uniforms.
Farida called them back.
“Come here. Did I not warn you not to associate with this woman? But because your ears are made of stone, you do not listen. Every day, you must go near her. You saw us here, yet you did not greet us. Instead, you went straight to your mother’s sister. By Allah, from today, if I see you even looking at her, I will beat you badly. Now leave my sight.”
Quietly, the little girls left for their room.
They were always surprised by the way their older siblings treated Aunty Aisha, as if she was not part of the family.
As for Aisha, once they started scolding the girls, she went upstairs and left the parlor for them.
Dinner Without Aisha
She went to her room to pray Maghrib because the call to prayer had already begun.
After praying, she did not stand immediately. She continued her remembrance until Isha was called. Then she prayed Isha and went downstairs to serve dinner.
At the dining table, she found that they had already started eating. Since Daddy was not around, they began eating without waiting for her.
When she opened the warmers, she found them empty.
There was nothing left.
Pain gripped her heart when she saw how they had finished the food without saving any for her.
She simply turned and returned to her room because the bitterness in her heart would not allow her to enter the kitchen and look for something else to eat.
Khalifa looked at his younger siblings as they were preparing to leave the table and said, “Where do you think you are going without finishing your food? Who did you leave this one for?”
Farida pushed out her lips and said, “Yaya Khalifa, we are full.”
He glared at her and said, “Come on, come back and sit down. You knew you would not eat it, yet you packed all the food without leaving any for her. If you did it to punish her, then you have punished yourselves because you must finish everything while I watch.”
They sat down and forced the food down with difficulty while he watched until they finished. Only then did he stand and leave.
Mu’azzam burst into laughter, holding his stomach when he saw the way they twisted their faces like they wanted to vomit.
Ummie hissed and said, “What is funny?”
He laughed again and replied, “You are what is funny. If you want to trouble that woman, wait until Daddy is around so that whatever you do, no one will say anything to you. But you know Yaya Khalifa has always had a soft spot for her. It is only her marriage to Daddy that made him step back from her.”
Farida said, “Whatever he heard, as for us, no one can stop us from disturbing that girl, since she agreed to marry our father.”
Mu’azzam said, “Farida, you have no shame. You are calling Aisha a girl? She is my age mate. I heard Mami say many times that she was only two months older than me.”
Farida shrugged and said, “So what? Even if she is your age mate, she is still a girl. Daddy is old enough to be her father. Besides, the difference between her age and ours is only about three or four years. As for me, since she agreed to marry Daddy, I started hating her. I think she had loved him long ago but did not know how to say it. Then she got Hajiya to bring up the marriage issue. You saw that she did not even refuse. She agreed immediately, pretending to be obedient.”
The Root of the Story
Ja’afar Bello Danmaliki was born in Kano, in the Gadon Kaya area, though his parents originally came from Gaya Local Government.
His parents had only two children: him and his younger brother, Ismail.
After Ismail, their mother, whom they called Hajiya, did not give birth again. Their father also never desired to marry another wife in search of more children.
Ja’afar studied from primary school in Kano until he completed secondary school. From there, he went to the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, in Kaduna, where he studied engineering under the army. He graduated with the rank of Second Lieutenant.
The year he graduated from NDA, he married his long-time childhood girlfriend, Zainab, who happened to be their neighbor’s daughter.
Ja’afar and Zainab’s Family
Ten months after their marriage, Zainab gave birth to her first son, Muhammad Bello, named after Ja’afar’s father. They called him Khalifa.
When Khalifa was three years old, she gave birth to Ibrahim Mu’azzam.
After Mu’azzam, she gave birth to Khadija, known as Ummie, who was named after her mother. There were also three years between Mu’azzam and Ummie.
In the same year Zainab gave birth to Ummie, Ismail, Ja’afar’s younger brother, got married. Sadly, that same year, Allah took his life through a car accident. He died leaving behind a wife who was six months pregnant.
Ismail’s death shook Ja’afar deeply because the two brothers had been very close.
Three months after Ismail’s death, his wife gave birth to a baby girl, and she was named Farida.
When Farida reached school age, Ja’afar brought her to Zainab and enrolled her in school together with Ummie.
Farida and Ummie grew up like twins because both of them resembled their fathers. Many people often thought they were twins.
Aisha Comes Into the House
After Ummie, Zainab did not give birth again for ten years. She had almost lost hope of having more children when Allah blessed her again.
On a Monday morning, she was seated breastfeeding the baby girl she had just delivered, Ruqaiya, when Hajiya, her mother-in-law, entered with a girl who looked about twelve or thirteen years old.
Zainab stood and said, “Hajiya, welcome.”
Hajiya replied, “Thank you, Zainabu. Are you alone? Have the children gone to school?”
Zainab sat back and said, “Yes, Hajiya. You can hear how quiet the house is. It will remain like this until they return. Good morning, Hajiya. I hope you woke well.”
Hajiya replied, “We woke well. How are the children?”
“They are fine, Alhamdulillah.”
“Masha Allah. I brought this girl to you. Where is she? Come out, Aisha,” Hajiya said while looking around.
The girl came out from behind the chair and squatted.
“Hajiya, I am here.”
Hajiya adjusted her sitting position and said, “Listen, Zainabu. This girl is the daughter of my younger sister in the village. Her mother died, and she was the only child her mother left behind. So I brought her because I thought it would be better to keep her here with you since there are children in the house. You can raise them together, and she can also help with small tasks. But please, Zainab, keep her as a trust for me, like your own daughter. Caring for anyone brings reward from Allah, and caring for an orphan is something only Allah can truly repay.”
Zainab looked at the girl. Truly, the girl was neat. There was no sign of dirtiness or village roughness on her.
Zainab said, “Alright, Hajiya. Thank you. May Allah increase your greatness, and may Allah help me raise her well. What is her name?”
Hajiya replied, “Her name is Aisha. Her mother and I were playmates. Her mother did not give birth for a long time until age began catching up with her. Then Allah gave her Aisha. After Aisha, she did not give birth again.”
Then Hajiya turned to Aisha and said, “Are you listening, Aisha? Here is Zainabu. You will stay with her. Take her like your mother and obey her. This house and my own place are the same, so do not worry about anything. May Allah bless you.”
“Let me go now, Zainabu. When the children return, tell them I greet them,” Hajiya said as she stood.
They escorted her to the car, then returned inside.
Zainab Welcomes Aisha
Zainab said to Aisha, “Come close and sit beside me.”
Aisha stood and sat carefully on the chair where Zainab pointed.
Zainab patted her gently and said, “Feel free with me, Aisha. Take me as your mother. Whatever you want, tell me. Insha Allah, if it is within my power, I will do it for you. From today, you will call me Mami, just like your siblings call me. They are not home now because they are in school, but when they return, you will see them.”
Aisha nodded slowly and said, “Thank you, Mami. Insha Allah, you will find me obedient to whatever you tell me.”
Mami said, “That is what I want. Now stand up. Let me show you your room.”
Aisha stood, carried the nylon bag containing her clothes, and followed Mami upstairs to Ummie’s room.
The room was large. It had a 6-by-6 bed, a wall wardrobe, and a mirror.
Mami told her to arrange her clothes in the wardrobe, then showed her the bathroom in case she needed to use it before leaving her there.
About Yayan Miji Book 1 Complete Hausa Novel
Yayan Miji Book 1 Complete Hausa Novel introduces Aisha, a young woman who becomes the wife of Major General Ja’afar Bello Danmaliki, known in the house as Daddy. Though she tries to serve him and his family respectfully, his children reject her and treat her as an enemy because they believe she betrayed their late mother, Mami.
This part of Yayan Miji Book 1 Complete Hausa Novel also reveals the foundation of the family, Ja’afar’s marriage to Zainab, the birth of Khalifa, Mu’azzam, Ummie, Ruqaiya, and the arrival of Aisha as an orphan brought into the home by Hajiya. The story blends marriage, stepchildren’s bitterness, family loyalty, jealousy, patience, and the emotional burden of living where one is not accepted.