At about 9.45 am on thursday 29 January 2009, I arrived at 29 Jalan 239/51A in PJ and there was a large crowd as the late Allahyarham Mohd. Noor was an employee with MBPJ. It was quite fortunate that he was brought back to the old house, since the people there mostly knew him but not at his new place. At about an hour later he was brought to the nearby mosque for the solat jenazah. There were no less than a hundred people performing the solat and after it was completed his jenazah was driven to the nearby tanah perkuburan Kampong Tunku. Allahyarham was fortunate again that he's an employee of MBPJ, for it was only with the special permission of the PJ Mayor that he was allowed to be buried there since it has been closed. When the jenazah arrived at the tanah perkuburan, the grave was still being dug. While waiting for the grave to be ready, I sat nearby and saw that there were a number of spaces being reserved for VIP's who booked the burial plots, as told to me by one of the person who worked for the MBPJ. I thought burial plots do not have a VIP tag, but I was wrong. Anyway from what I learned, only ALLAH shall determine where one's burial plot would be. Wallahuwa'lam.
It is a small village in the kecamatan of Tambusai, Kabupaten Rokan Hulu in the Province of Riau, Sumatra. During the Padri Wars of 1830's , Tuanku Tambusai (aka known as Fakeh Hj Muhammad Salleh ) fought the Dutch forces together with Imam Bonjol and Tuanku Rao in West Sumatra and in Northern Sumatra .The last defence was in Benteng 7 Lapis,Daludalu which fell in 1838. He escaped capture and came to Malaya. He was buried in Rasah in 1882.
Friday, January 30, 2009
The Burial Plot
Last thursday I was at the Tanah Perkuburan Kampong Tunku, attending the burial rites of my sister's " Besan " who passed away after being in a coma for more than a month in Hospital Serdang. He was a happy go lucky fellow and seemed to me as a good man for I knew him only about a year. He just moved into his new house in Bukit Mahkota off the North South highway southbound not far from Bangi.
But when he died he was brought to his old house which he still maintained near Malaysian Oxygen in Petaling Jaya. His remains was brought back to the house just about maghrib prayer time on wednesday evening and it was raining. I went back home for prayer and then came back again for the tahlil after isyak. I came home almost by midnight, promising his son that I would come for the solat jenazah next day.
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Reserved burial plots?
As a Nogori singer would say:
"Apo nak di kato"
Salam!
Pokku,
That's what I am given to understand. Although the Tanah Perkuburan in Kg Tunku is already full to the brim, but there are vacant burial plots with numbers and they have been booked by people who's waiting for their time which doesnt come yet and they are not of the lesser mortals!
As nogori people says also " Ontahlah!"
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