#SHOWBIZ: Wedding surprise: Syed Aiman reunites with daughter Aika after 10 years apart

KUALA LUMPUR: Actress Syed Aiman's sole child from his prior marriage, Sharifah Nurzulaika, 26, expressed her thanks following a reunion with her biological father after a decade-long absence. Sharifah Nurzulaika, fondly called Aika, was invited to the wedding of Rezaril Keiflin, also known as Aril—Syed Aiman's eldest son by his wife Linda Rafar.

In a recent post on Threads, Aika conveyed her joy, thanking Linda for arranging the meeting. She wrote, "Thank you, Mama, for inviting me to Aril's wedding so we could meet face-to-face. If it weren't for you, I probably still wouldn't have seen Papa. I even got to see my half-siblings." After being separated for so long, the reunion came at the perfect moment, Aika remarked, "Alhamdulillah, patience truly bears fruit. Allah is great, thank you, Allah."

Aika detailed in an interview with Harian Metro that her father, whose real name is Syed Kamaruzaman, divorced her mother when she was around three years old. Raised by her grandmother from birth, Aika was brought back to her father's hometown in Kelantan by Syed Aiman when she turned nine. The Actress shared that she had traveled to Kuala Lumpur at the age of 14 to visit her father, with the blessing of her grandmother and aunt.

After spending three days with her father, she returned to her grandmother's house. Currently married to a soldier in Johor, Aika was stunned when Linda contacted her ahead of Aril's wedding, saying, "Mama has been very kind to me. I was shocked when I received her message. She invited me to surprise Papa. At the same time, I was nervous about seeing him again after 10 years apart."