The Complete Minangkabau Man - Al Fatiha

1.I recieved this mail from my sister Bunda quite a while ago.

2.Herman Jambak was the direct 2nd.generation desendent of the late Almarhum.
More info of the late Sheikh Sulaiman AlRasuli pleased find the link here.

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Syekh Sulaiman Arrasuli yang lahir pada tahun 1871 adalah seorang tokoh Agama, Adat, Politisi, Pendidik, dan juga Saudagar.

Beliau mendirikan organisasi, yaitu Persatuan Tarbiyah Islamiyah (PERTI) pada tahun 1928 yang selanjutnya menjadi salah satu partai dari beberapa partai yang ikut serta dalam setiap pemilu, dari 1955-1971, kemudian Perti bergabung menjadi salah satu bagian dari Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (PPP) sejak pemilu 1977. sebelum wafat beliau berfatwa agar Tarbiyah kembali ke khittah sehingga Perti berubah menjadi Partai Pergerakan Tarbiyah Islamiyah, dan pengikutnya yang lain membentuk Tarbiyah (Persatuan Tarbiyah Islamiyah). Beliau pernah menjadi Ketua Sidang I Konstituante pada th. 1955

Beliau mendirikan sekolah agama dengan mengembangkan system pendidikan yang sekarang dikenal dengan Pesantren, dan sampai saat ini sekolah-sekolah Tarbiyah tersebar di pelosok negeri di Indonesia, bahkan alumninya tersebar sampai ke negeri jiran dan Madagaskar.

Beliau juga menjadi tempat bertanya para niniek mamak dalam hal adat istiadat Minangkabau, salah satu buku yang beliau tulis adalah “Adat dan Agama”.

Bersama-sama dengan beberapa Saudagar Minang beliau mendirikan Bank Swasta pertama di Indonesia, yaitu Bank Nasional.

Wassalam & Regards,

Herman Jambak

Jl. G Kav. No. 23A Kebon Baru Tebet Jakarta 12830 Indonesia M. +62811961908

From Zero to Hero - Allahyarham Tuan Hj.Abbas Bandung

**Atuk Pakeh and Hj.Abbas Bandung on sarung in the middle and Buya Hamka,ayah far end right.

More info on the vist of Buya Hamka then, visit here.

It was two years ago I wrote in the blog about 'The Minang Connection'(Dec.2005 archives)
The early 'sawo matang' immgrant in Malacca.Malacca or 'Maaalako' with a a thick minang accent as prounounce by my late grandad Hj.Pakeh Temenggong aka Pak Tuo as he is affectionaly know among the minang community in Malacca back then.
He pass away peacefully in 1983,the most remembered is how he was call by his Lord,fell down and rush to home in unconsious state,after locking the last wooden door of his shop preparing to call it a day as usual.
It shows how deep the love for his shop and job .As his shop advertisment written,as I remembered then, 'PAKIH TEMENGGONG MENJAHIT SONGKOK AND CAPAL'.

How I wish I could have that zinc made advertisment both enscript in Malay and Jawi or the very least a photo of it.
That his life proffession and yes if you have met him you would definately fall in love with the wise old gentry.
Man with few word and all day his eye's down to earth,concentrating on what he knew best,on the sewing machine,his only techno gadget and a transistor radio as his companion.
Remain a Bachelor till death after the dismiss of my beloved grand-ma Nenek Sayan in 1968.How many of us still do 'till death depart'with our other half?
How I wonder!!

This written blog is not about him,but about a man who stood on firm ground and remain a loyal friend to Arwah ATUK.
He left a legacy in Malacca and much remembered by all fellows Old Guru-Guru Melayu of Malaccans.
As his name stood High and Tall among the contributors of the development of Malay Interlectuals in post independence era.
He is not a politician,neither do a nationalist but a visionary buisness man which put all his skill of hard work,determination and persistence will WINS.
Malacca in the pre and post Merdekah days was a sleepy hollow.
It slips away being the centre of trade and commerce because largely due to the fact,that Kuala Lumpur the new adminstritive city was laid and shift in 1923.
Since than Malacca lost its centre point.
Thanks to Yap Ah Loy the Chief Capitan MAFIA Cina'.
(If one wants to dispute those facts, pleased clarified it with Prof.Zainal Keling or Prof.Khoo Kay Kim,they are able to clarified futher)

One of the main legecy left by the Brits,is the 2 tiers Education system,the English schools medium and the Malay Medium.As a result of this diversity two set of text books are need and written in Bahasa Melayu and in English.
Without a single doubt,the problemmatic of logistic issues arise in the newly independency nation.
We want Malay schools but no text books writers in Bahasa Melayu,we do not have ample and capable writers in Maths,Science or vocational subjects in Bahasa Melayu and worst of it, we do not have able and qualified teachers to teach in Bahasa Melayu Maths,Science ot technical subject to our children.
As a result,the Kementerian then import Indonesian teachers to teach our children Maths and Science because most of the Malay teachers then,were only capable of teaching sejarah and ilmu alam or Bahasa Melayu then.

Thus,the question arise,where do we get those Malay text books?
In Malacca those days two prominent text bookshop are monopoloised by Lim Brothers and Tai Kuang Bookshop.
They only sell English Text books and mag.
Even me, gets my weekly Beano and Danny comics from Lim Brothers or the Uncle's Aneh shop junction of Jln Bunga Raya.The Hole in wall type of shops.

I remembered well this geniune smiling face Pak Aji.
Short and stout in nature.Always with a 'Songkok Hitam'.
Very loving in nature.Each time I goes to the shop I will always gets a sweets of 'Halls'Lemon in flavor from him.
His shop only stocks Malay book either novels,magazine and the main distributor for Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka in Melaka.Under his wings and supervision the mushrooming of small petty bookshop scattred in Melaka all over.
In Mesjid Tanah,Melimau.Jasin till the far fetch the boundry of Malacca states.The provisional schools are mostly of the Malay medium thus,TOKO BUKU ABBAS BANDUNG provides the missing gap of malay text books to the provisional schools.
The story of success of Tuan Hj.Abbas Md.Yatim has a long history.It is rather not discuss of how he built the book empire in Malacca.He was a dear friend of arwah datuk Pakeh.According to family ledgend,he arrive from Padang,atuk's kampong in view of being a teacher,which he was in Padang.
He teachers Quranic lesson in Kg.Banda Kaba.A pios man,He stays with arwah datuk in Kg.Banda Kaba together with nenek Sayan and ayah in the beginning stage and the rest is history.
I remembered well during my schooling days,when I have free time,I begin with Lim Brothers browsing for the latest Beano and Dandy and next the Tai Kuang ended up at his bookshop browing for latest Antrologi cerpen or novels.My early collection of Grand Pa (Dato'Samad Said)Salina etc...were all from his bookshop including Tongkat Warrant (Usman Awang),Keris Mas,Salmi Manja,Pram Meodya Anantantor,W.S Rendra,Khatijah Hashim,Latif Mohiddin (He is more of a painter),Fatimah Busu including Mastika,Dewan Masyarakat,Salina,Diskusi,Dewan Pelajar etc are still in my home library.Those where the first edition copies and I am proud owner of the first edition copies.

Without a single doubt Tuan Hj.Abbas Hj.Md.Yatim contribution to the malay community is well acknowledged.His buisness acuman without doubt set a precedent to the young new Malay interlectual breed in Malacca.
It is only via his bookshop the accumulation of knowledge grows among the Malay are noted.As the sahih Hadith "seek knowledge till China'

From my logic thought 'seek both knowledge and wealth as Tuan Hj.Abbas Bandung did"
I suppose it is full of barakah on 'hijrah'
and make the Awal Muharram 1429 more meaningfull

Al.Fatiha.
Allahyarham Tuan Hj.Abbas Hj.Md.Yatim pengasas 'TOKO BUKU ABBAS BANDUNG'

My Beloved Ayah

Like everyone,ayah will always be there for me.Cool headed and suppotive what ever I do in life.I recall ayah's advised some 20 years ago afther completing my acedemic journey.
'all you have to do now is to reorganised your life all over again' and organised I did and well some swell advised from ayah.
My love for ayah will alaways be part of me.This one for you.

Keretek -Tak Nak Ke ?

Some 50 years ago at a diplomatic reception in London,one man stood out.He was short by European standard and thin and he wore a black fez ie. songkok over his white hair.And from his mouth he breathed a stream of aromatic smoke that permeated the reception hall.

This man Hj.Agus Salim,the Republic of Indonesia first ambassador to Great Britian,refers to in his country as the 'Grand Old Man'.
Pak Agus, was among the 1st.generation of Indonesian to have recieved a western education.In this regards he was a 'rare spicies' for at the end of the Dutch hegemony over Indonesia in 1942,less than 4% of the country population could read or write.

Not surprising,Pak Agus appears and demour not to mention the strange smell of his cigarettes - quickly turned him into the centre of attention.One gentleman put into words the question that was on everyone lips,"What is that thing you are smoking ,sir?"

Replied candidly and sharp by Pak Agus,"That,your Excellency?"
Pak Agus is reported to have said,it is the reasons for which the West conqured the world".

In fact,he was smoking a Kretek,an Indonesian cigarettes spiced with cloves which for centuries was one of the worlds most sought after spice.

Hmmm....I remember watching 'The Tengku' a chain-smoker, on the 31st August 'Merdeka Day' state of address to the nation before live TV telecast,Sipping Kopi 'O' and a few puff of John Players unfiltered.

I am sure the Film Negara or Akib Negara film archives has the reels to prove my point.
Again not only Proton or Petronas could be a National pride,cigarettes too could be our main exported to sell the countrys name and image.

So...what so special about the Tak Nak programme?
Nak Tak Nak aje?
Me a 'Sempoerna Mild' guy.

Football.....The Curi Ayam Game

**ayah 1952**

Yes..yes the football fever is on again.
Me like any others male species are hook to the game and could not resist to watch the live telecast.

Wow....hang on a minute,anyone has any interesting tale to tell about football?
Yes the 'curi ayam'slang meaning a foul play by footballers every time a players cross over before the ball reached the line.
What ever it means, it does mean something to our local foot pundits.

Me basically,my daily pocket money comes from football.
Yeap..ayah is a football umpire and active one too,
'Joe Play Go'- The Football Umpire the locals nick name him.
Call it a shot he will be there on any afternoon at the Bandar Hilir padang,that is before the Padang turns into a concreate jungle by the State Government,turning the Padang at first as a 'Sound and Lighting Arena' and later I don't know what other mall they wanted to build for a population of a small city of 100,000 population.
Gone with the playing fields supposed to dig the talented Malaccan football players and up the mass super shopping mall.
Well,any newly decorated so call city needed a brand new shopping mall,I supposed

Yes, being a football freak the Imam of my kampong,the late Iman Hj.Sapau is one freak of a footballer.
There was on one occasion,the Malacca Team led by 'The Towkey aka Soh Chin Ann" was playing for the FA Cup.It was the was the semi-finalist game,if I may recall.He refuses to leads the Fridays prayers solely to enable him to see the match at the Kubu Stadium.I wonder when will the new state Stadium would be ready?
It seems it take ages to built one.

The Padang do have historical significant.
Firstly, it was the first Padang where the Proclaimation of Independence was hail by 'The Tengku' in 1956 arriving back from the pre independence discussion with the English Authority.
During its hey day, the padang not only breezees with cooling air from the seas of the Straits of Malacca but fill with leisure activities in the evening.
After a football match ayah will walk with me to the nearest stall for supper of Rojak and Satay not forgetting Air Tebu at Wak Temu stall under the 'Old Gum tree' right facing the famous 'A Famosa'.Fresh food off course.
Arwah Wak Temu is the dad of the National Hockey player Kamaruddin Temu.


It was from this field the birth of our National Skipper, now a Dato Soh Chin Ann aka 'Towkeh' is born.So does the national hockeys players Tam Kuan Seng,Haridas,Zamani Othman,Razak Leman,Zulkifli Bakar and Adnan Bakar both are sibling is groom.
Those were the days we play football and hockey for the love of the game not for the sake of money.The pride to be able to represent the state was a honour and be look up at,since under 12 MSSM competition.

Ayah, an avid sportman ever since his young age till now has instill a high level of sportmanship in me ever since I was a wee lad.
Even though I do not excel in any sports but I do enjoy watching a good game.
It haves been instilled in me and it comes naturally.

That was how ayah got his extra money, by being a football umpire in the evening.
All the amature clubs matches, he will be there,umpiring the games.Ayah keep fit by running up and down the football feild.
Malacca has vast amount of amature football clubs, those days.Name it, Kubu United,Dunlop United,Lee Sports Club,MCI United,Kg.Morten F.C.
They were the pioneers in the minor league.

Each match the umpire service charge WAS RM5.00.Saturday and Sunday is a full schedual for ayah.At time he has to matches one in the morning and one in the afternoon.Thus if there is 5 games in a week there is an extra RM20.00 a week for ayah.
RM5.00 in early 60's is a big amount.
Considering a goverment clerk pay was only R150 a month and that is how he managed his finance to feed all four of us,educate,and dress us decently.

I bear witness to Allah Almighty, ayah is not a 'CORRUPT' government servant.
He leads his life decently and earn his piece of bread to feed us in a likely manner, far from the the element of corruption.

Anybody dares to challege this statement please do so 'BUT' beware the court is all hearing!

The evening collection will goes to his LP collection of Titik Puspha,Ernie Djohan,Lilie Suryani,S.Affendi.Bing Selamat,Gersang etc.etc.etc.Not to forgetting Matt Monroe,Big Brother Frank,King Nat etc etc.

It was from ayah I learn to appreciated collectable items.
Ayah has amazing oldies LP's and still in his possession at home.
The umpire fees, goes to his little collectable space nice and neatly arrange

His sportmanship brought him everywhere.He plays tennis for the RISDA sport club,and still plays tennis right up when he is retired up until he met with an fatal accident which causes him to limp.
A handicap man,now but he still does 'senamrobik' everyday.
You find him doing his routine at the Bukit Serindit Park everyday except when it is raining.

May Allah protect my beloved Ayah.
May be one day I tell the story how ayah tried to groom me to be a national tennis player and match me with Adam Malik the first Tennis Pro from Malaysia.Its a long to brag and it begins way back in 1970 when I was in Standard 5.

In the mean time there is only one Dad,that is My Ayah that has 'NEVER EVER'
"Curi Ayam To Feed His Entire Family"
Syukur Lillah my families purely tummy is clean.

That Is My Inyik.- Sheihk Sulaiman AlRasuli Candung

Memegang Teguh Mazhab Syafi'i

Perkembangan Islam di nusantara tidak bisa dipisahkan dari kiprah para tokoh agama dan ulama besar yang giat menyebarkan sunnatullah serta Hadis di berbagai wilayah. Sejauh ini, Sumatra Barat merupakan salah satu daerah yang melahirkan banyak ulama terkemuka.

Di antara tokoh ulama asal Sumatra Barat terkemuka adalah Syekh Sulaiman ar-Rasuli. Semasa hidupnya, Syekh Sulaiman dikenal masyarakat luas sebagai ulama yang gigih mempertahankan serta mengembangkan paham ahlusunnah wal jamaah dan mahzab Syafi'i. Selain itu, dia merupakan pendiri organisasi Ittihadul Ulama Sumatra (Persatuan Ulama Sumatra) dan Persatuan Tarbiyah Islamiyah (Perti).

Dari buku Ensiklopedi Islam, Syekh Sulaiman lahir tahun 1871 di Candung, yang terletak 10 km sebelah timur Bukitinggi, Sumbar. Oleh karenanya, dia pun lebih sering dipanggil dengan sebutan "Inyik Candung". Dia bernama asli Sulaiman bin Rasul, namun murid-muridnya di kemudian hari, akrab memanggilnya dengan nama Maulana Syekh Sulaiman ar-Rasuli.

Ayahnya bernama Angku Mudo Muhammad Rasul, yang juga ulama di daerahnya. Dari ayahnya pula, Syekh Sulaiman memperoleh pendidikan awal, terutama untuk bidang pelajaran agama. Di samping itu, sejak kecil dia menimba ilmu kepada Syekh Yahya al-Khalidi di Magek, Bukitinggi.

Ibadah haji dijalaninya pada tahun 1930 yang kemudian bermukim di tanah suci Makkah selama beberapa tahun. Di sana Syekh Sulaiman menuntut ilmu dari sejumlah ulama terkemuka. Antara lain Syekh Achmad Khatib Minangkabau. Sedangkan teman-temannya saat belajar di Makkah ialah Syekh Abbas Ladang Lawas dari Bukitinggi dan Syekh Muhammad Jamil Jaho.

Ketiganya tetap beraktivitas bersama sekembalinya ke tanah air dan menjadi tokoh ulama terkemuka. Mereka lantas gigih memperjuangkan dan mengembangkan paham ahlusunnah wal jamaah. Tiga sahabat karib ini dikenal dengan sebutan "tali pilin tiga."

Pulang ke kampung halaman, Candung, segera Syekh Sulaiman membuka sebuah pondok pesantren besar. Dalam waktu singkat, pesantrennya ini mendapat sambutan menggembirakan dari warga masyarakat sekitar. Makin lama jumlah murid-muridnya kian bertambah banyak. Tak hanya dari wilayah setempat, mereka yang ingin belajar di pesantren itu juga datang dari berbagai penjuru Sumbar, Riau, Jambi, Bengkulu, Tapanuli, Aceh bahkan Malaysia.

Materi utama pendidikan di pesantren tersebut adalah pengajaran paham ahlusunnah wal jamaah serta mazhab Syafi'i. Dia sangat konsisten menjalankan paham dan aliran tersebut. Begitu pula ketika ada muridnya yang telah berhasil menyelesaikan masa pendidikannya, maka pada ijazah kelulusan akan dicantumkan pernyataan bahwa si pemegang ijazah, jika berfatwa, harus mendasarkan pada mazhab Syafi'i. Selain itu, masih dalam ijazah tadi, tercantum tulisan bahwa Syekh Sulaiman tidak akan rela bila muridnya berfatwa atau menganut paham selain paham Syafi'i.

Syekh Sulaiman tidak cuma dikenal sebagai ulama, kiprahnya merambah ke bidang politik dan keorganisasian. Tahun 1921, bersama dua teman akrabnya, Syekh Abbas dan Syekh Muhammad Jamil, serta sejumlah ulama kaum tua Minangkabau, membentuk organisasi bernama Ittihadul Ulama Sumatra. Ini merupakan organisasi saingan Persatuan Guru-guru Agama Islam (PGAI) yang didirikan kaum muda tahun 1918.

Tujuan dari pembentukan Ittihadul Ulama yakni untuk membela dan mengembangkan paham ahlusunnah wal jamaah serta mazhab Syafi'i. Dipilih selaku ketua umum pertamanya adalah Syekh Abbas Ladang Lawas. Organisasi tersebut kemudian menerbitkan majalah ar-Radd wa al-Mardud dibawah asuhan KH Sirajuddin Abbas dan H Mustafa Salim bin Syekh Muhammad Salim.

Dalam satu rapat yang berlangsung tanggal 5 Mei 1928 di rumah Syekh Sulaiman, muncul pemikiran bagi pembentukan organisasi persatuan sekolah-sekolah agama yang berpaham ahlusunnah wal jamaah. Sejumlah ulama tersebut secara tegas tidak setuju dengan aliran pendidikan yang dikelola kaum muda, semisal madrasah diniyah serta Sumatra Thawalib.

Selanjutnya, sekolah-sekolah agama yang tergabung dengan Syekh Sulaiman dkk dinamakan Madrasah Tarbiyah Islamiyah.

Syekh Sulaiman seringkali berbeda pendapat dengan tokoh muda lantaran keteguhannya mempertahankan paham ahlusunnah wal jamaah. Kendati demikian, dia sangat toleran dan menghargai pendapat orang lain. Oleh sebab itu, tak aneh bila tokoh ulama ini kerap bekerja sama dengan berbagai pihak meski ada ketidaksepahaman.

Pernah suatu ketika, Syekh Sulaiman berbeda pendapat dengan Dr H Abdul Karim Amrullah, yang pada intinya mengenai tarekat Naqsabandiyah serta rukyat dalam penetapan awal Ramadhan. Akan tetapi, keduanya tidak serta merta mengedepankan perbedaan pendapat itu ke dalam suatu debat kusir. Keduanua justru bekerja sama erat khususnya untuk menghadapi kolonial.

Mereka berdua bahkan acap kali mengisi ceramah di suatu tempat. Dan bersama dengan Syekh Ibrahim Musa --seorang ulama dan tokoh pembaru di Parabek, Bukitinggi-- berjanji untuk membawa semangat persatuan kepada segenap umat di wilayahnya.

Di bidang politik, Syekh Sulaiman pernah pula menjadi anggota Konstituante hasil Pemilu tahun 1955. Dia merupakan salah satu anggota tertua dan sempat ditunjuk untuk memimpin sidang pertama Konstituante. Selain itu, kiprahnya berpolitik sempat mengantarnya menduduki jabatan ketua Majelis Islam Tertinggi Sumatra Barat yang berkedudukan di Bukitinggi. Syekh Sulaiman pun tercatat pernah menghadiri konferensi ulama-ulama Sumatra dan Malaysia di Singapura pada zaman pendudukan Jepang tahun 1942.

Sejumlah karya tulisnya di bidang agama hingga kini masih dirujuk oleh beberapa sekolah agama. Antara lain karyanya adalah Kisah Isra dan Miraj Nabi, Cerita Tentang Maulid Nabi, Kisah Nabi Yusuf dan Yakub, Tassawuf, Ilmu Tafsir, Usuluddin, Doa-doa, Kisah Muhammad Arif-Tassawufdan Perdamaian Adat dengan Syarak.

Demikian sumbangsih Syekh Sulaiman ar-Rasuli untuk mengembangkan agama Islam dan pendidikan agama. Sejarah membuktikan, Perti yang dibentuk bersama dua sahabatnya dulu, kini telah menjelma menjadi sebuah organisasi yang mapan dan memayungi ratusan sekolah dan lembaga pendidikan Islam. Agaknya Syekh Sulaiman hendak menitipkan pesan bahwa dengan memajukan pendidikan, maka umat akan dapat bangkit dan berkiprah lebih aktif dalam usaha membangun bangsa dan agama.

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The Minang Connection

The "MINANG CONNECTION" aka France Connection 1 & 2


Well.......well, after the post mortem on Yasmin's "Sepet",
how very true the facts which are hidden and swept under the carpet all this years.
We are the lazy lot,unimaginative,unproductive,under achivers and most of all the bricking among us are stabbing and the bitching and clonning and many more.....are destroying us and laid a bad example to our juniors.

Copy the Minang "a good living example where hard working strive and bravery persist.Recorded history documented.that they are the pioneers and captain of the industry in all sector.
In field of education the name HAMKA,Agus Salim,Sheikh Sulaiman AlRasuli Candung,Hatta etc.is unanymous,failling to quote them means
you would fail in your history lesson.
In buisness go to Selayang,Gombak.Tampin,Chow Kit etc..you see them working day and night.Great risk taker and able sales man and women.
"Piti nun sikit dibawo pulang buek isteri di kampuang"
litery translate :"the little money is sent home for the wife and family.'

We need mentor and social mobiliser like Yasmin.
U-Wei.please stop day dreaming there is a line between cost effective and avant-grand but you are good.I am looking forward for Aflin Shuki's golden tourch,which he has.
Free art is at cost.All we need is a good script writer.
"Cara pengolahan bahasa dengan intonasi yang betul"(right methodology in speech intonation and proper usage of the language)

FINAS..............lessen the web scab of the industry.Let set the momento.Less politic could do.After all it merely a film, no moral judgement needed.
The whole idea is to get people to see and feel QUALITY ENTERTAINMENT and not some scum bag spitting in public gallary.

As Anite Brooker mention "...not until we learn the art of writing ,we would not be able to understand what we are writing"
It is some thing like writing with a cause not rebel without a cause!.

Again worklah MELAYU...................................AND WORK!!!!!!!!

Buya H.M.Nur AlRasuli

Dearest Papa,

Wow.......ages catches us fast.I was in Jakarta over the weekend.It was short visit,the main reasons is my dearest Papa whom is my idol ever since my childhood has to undergo a by-pass surgery.
He is 76.Jakarta has always been my 2nd.home every hook ' n' corner of Kedoya is back of my mind.
Yes my "asli" is Bukit Tinggi Sumatera Barat.The family tree branches from there.It was arwah atok Pakeh immgrated to Malaka as (atok pronounce Malacca as MaaaLaaKaa. with a thick minang accent)
In matter of faith and facts,atok is not the economic immgrants as todays most migrantes.He was sentence to excile by the Dutch Authorities for his refusal to compromise with the Dutch Colonisation.He was one of the "Pejuang Bangsa" under the banner of the Sharikat Islam far before Sukarno leads PNI.Together with his late father Sheikh Sulamai AlRasuli Candung,Agus Salim,Buya Hamka's and the Minangkabaui clan fought till their last breath for the proclamation of Indonesia Raya.

As faith has it tail,atok small part in the making of Independence Indonesia was abandone when he was sentence to excile in Malacca the one time empire of the Malay world.This was way back in the 20's.Atok was newly wed to arwah nenek Sayan, my beloved nenek,pass away when I was 8 years old.From that marriage they were bless with 4 children Ibu Emma the eldest,ayah my dad,om and antie.They to immgrated to Malacca except antie born in Malaysia follow suite atok after being excile a few years.All was educated in an English school.Mind you atok sending her eldest daughter Ibu Emma to Durian Daun English Girls School when most malay parents refuse to send their daughters to school fearing their sons or daughter would become a christian convert.Sush was the mentality of the Malays then.
I reckon atok being rasional and coming from a well educated and aristocrate family in Bukit Tinggi,in social status is address as Datok Pado Sakti Nan ALun and Temenggong Pakih.Even the family school which was been set by my moyang Sheikh Sulaiman AlRasuli still in existence in Candung ,Bukit Tinggi.dare to challenge the beggot mentality of the Malays at that particular era.

Living in excile means has to work and feed the family,atok make a living till he past away in 1983 by making songkok and capal.The master craft of the traditional head wear and sandal.The craft died with him and none of us cucu took the effort to master the craft.He love his shop at Kampong Jawa to the extend every single day the shop is open for buisness except the time the went to performed his Haj in 1974 or visiting Ibu Emma in Jakarta of kapulang Kampung.He remain bachelor till he past away.Back for Kedai atok will teache us and few other fellow kamponrian Koran from maghrib till isyak.He was well look up at by the orang-orang kampong being the wise of the clad.

.......to be continue

Jakarta

JAKARTA oh.......JAKARTA.


Yes...........Jakarta peace at last.

Aman kembali selepas bergelora seketika.
Ada-ada saja sengketa untuk mengporak - perandakan peradapan kita
Bukankah kita seagama,serumpun bangsa.
perlu apa jajahan asing
bukankan si-Negoro udah merintis jalan untuk kedaulatan

Wahai perosak manusia jangan di adu dumbakan lagi anak-anak kami
kami lali
kami muak
kami sangsi
kami sangsarai
segala perih letih meraih untuk sedikit kemudahan teknologi
buat hidup anak-ank kami
supaya belajar hidup rukun damai
mengejar cita dan harapan
membantu kami yang terluka
menghulur seberapa yang ada
untuk kami yang sentiasa lapar dan dahaga

Cuaca Jakarta mula cerah
telah terpahat segala pasrah
anak-anak kami mulai tahu
yang mana helang buana
yang mana singa rimba
yang mana tulen dan benar
yang mana bengkok dan yang mana kasar

Suara Jakarta mula lunak
jangan diserkapi hati yang malang
tajwid mulai kedengeran
begitu merdu lunankan suara azan
atas nama cinta
atas nama pencipta
atas nama kemanusiaan
atas nama pedoman

Jakarta tak perlu bergelora lagi
kita sama kita tidak perlu sangsi
perlu apa pada gangsi
tak akan hilang iman yang sebati.

Jakarta oh Jakarta
Kota mu mengajar
manusia merendahkan diri.

Jakarta oh Jakarta
mata mu melihat segala sengsara
begitu gitu dikerah tenaga
buat sibulek bersantap sekeluarga
dengan angkoh kita diajar
katanya adap kita tiada kesopanan
akhirnya bambu runcing menjadi tauladan

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