HIDAYAT Nurwahid sat last Thursday with legs crossed in front of Abdullah Abas, an elder kiai (scholar) from the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) organization. Hidayat, Chairman of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), asked this caretaker of the Buntet Islamic Boarding School in Cirebon to pray for the smooth functioning of the Joint Forum to Save the Nation—an alliance conceived by Hidayat, Amien Rais, and Abdurrahman Wahid. Not only did Abdullah ag