Masjid (mosque of) Sungai Petani, Kedah dan (and) September 11?...

Assalamualaikum semua... Hari ini 11 September 2007, 6 tahun setelah berlakunya peristiwa keruntuhan menara berkembar World Trade Centre di New York, timbul rasa untuk mengenengahkan gambar-gambar Masjid Jamek Sungai Petani di Kedah. Sila...

Peace be upon you all. Today, 11th September 2007, 6 years after the fall of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, came the urge to feature pictures of the main mosque of Sungai Petani in Kedah. Come in...

Gambar-gambar ini diambil semasa perjalanan hampir sebulan yang meliputi beberapa buah lokasi di negeri-negeri Pahang, Kelantan, Kedah, Perak dan Selangor lebih 2 bulan lalu. Kebetulan hari itu adalah hari terakhir saya di Kedah setelah 6 malam di sana dan kebetulan hari itu hari Jumaat. Maka saya menunaikan Solat Jumaat di masjid itu... Sempat pula menggantungkan poster promosi siri buku "Berpetualang ke Aceh" di pagar masjid...

These pictures were taken during an almost month-long trip which covers some locations in the states of Pahang, Kelantan, Kedah, Perak and Selangor more than 2 months ago. It happens that day was my last day in Kedah after spending 6 nights there and it also happens the day was Friday. So I did my Friday prayers at the mosqe... Had the time to hang up the promotional poster for the "Berpetualang ke Aceh" book series at the fences...

Masjid ini adalah masjid baru... Tetapi senibinanya ada ciri-ciri Arab lama... Saya tak pasti di belah mana tetapi hati ini mengatakan ada kena-mengena dengan senibina di sebelah Maghribi, sebuah negeri majoriti Arab di benua Afrika yang diperintah seorang raja daripada keturunan Saidina Hassan, cucu sulung Nabi Muhammad SAW...

The mosque is a new mosque... But the architecture has the characteristics of old Arab... I'm not sure of which part but this heart says it has something to do with the architecture around Morocco, a country of Arab majority in the continent of Africa ruled by a king from the lineage of Saidina Hassan, the eldest grandchild of Prophet Muhammad SAW...

Lihat menara azan masjid ini... Nampak seperti salah sebuah menara World Trade Centre yang runtuh pula!

Look at the mosque's azan (call to prayer) tower... Looks like one of the towers of the World Trade Centre which went down!

Sebenarnya masjid ini diberi nama Masjid Sultan Mudzaffar Shah sempena nama Raja Kedah yang dikatakan pertama sekali memeluk Islam... Sedikit cerita tentang Sultan ini ada dinukilkan di dalam blogspot berbahasa Inggeris BERPETUALANG KE ACEH , di bawah tajuk Sultan Muzaffar Shah, the first king of Kedah? . Silalah menjenguknya...

Actually this mosque is given the name Masjid (mosque of) Sultan Mudzaffar Shah based on the name of the king of Kedah said to be the first to embrace Islam... Some story on the Sultan was made in the English blogspot BERPETUALANG KE ACEH , under the title Sultan Muzaffar Shah, the first king of Kedah? . Do have a look...

Sebenarnya, saya masih ada banyak lagi koleksi gambar-gambar bangunan terutama masjid yang diambil dalam pengembaraan demi pengembaraan yang dilakukan tetapi saya pun tidak pasti kenapa pula masjid ini dipilih pada 11 September ini...

Actually, I still have plenty of collections of pictures of buildings especilly mosques taken during trips after trips which was made but I myself am not sure why this mosque is chosen this September 11...

Mungkin juga gambar-gambar ini dipilih kerana berdasarkan turutan gambar-gambar daripada pengembaraan hampir sebulan yang telah diketengahkan dalam blogspot-blogspot saya, sudah sampai masanya gambar masjid ini dikongsi bersama...

Maybe these pictures were chosen because based on the turn of pictures taken during the almost month-long trip which have been featured in my blogspots, it is time pictures of the mosque are shared here...

Tetapi kalau difikirkan kembali, saya boleh sahaja memilih gambar-gambar lain untuk sesi penulisan kali ini... Mungkin saya tergerak untuk menggunakan gambar masjid ini disebabkan satu, menaranya memang hampir serupa dengan menara-menara World Trade Centre yang gugur ke bumi dan kedua, masjid ini dinamakan sempena Sultan Muzaffar Shah? Wallahualam... Cukuplah!
On the other hand, I could have chosen other pictures for this particular session of writing... Maybe I felt the urge to use pictures of the mosque because one, its tower does look a bit like the World Trade Centre towers which fell down and second, the mosque is named after Sultan Muzaffar Shah? God knows best... That's all!