Makam (tomb of) Dol Said...

Rasanya ramai anak Malaysia pernah mendengar nama Dol Said, seorang pejuang Melayu yang melawan pemerintahan penjajah Inggeris. Sekarang, mari kita melawat makam beliau. Mari! :]

Me feels many Malaysian citizens have heard the name Dol Said, a Malay fighter who fought again the rule of the colonialist English (or British?). Now, let us pay a visit to his tomb. Come! :]

Sekitar 1km daripada bangunan tol lebuhraya PLUS di Alor Gajah, Melaka, di jalan utama menghala ke Negeri Sembilan, kelihatan masjid dengan papan tanda ini di tepi jalan...

Around 1km from the PLUS highway tol building in Alor Gajah, Melaka, on the main road heading to Negeri Sembilan, one could see this mosque with the signboard just besides the road...

Dari tepian masjid, boleh kelihatan sebuah bangunan kuning makam yang terserlah...

From the sides of the mosque, one could see a yellow tomb building which stands out...

Saya terpaksa turun melalui tangga yang kelihatan ini untuk sampai ke sekitar makam itu!

I had to climb down using the ladder seen here to get to the area around the tomb!

Adapun masjid ini terletak di lereng bukit, di bawahnya terdapat sebuah tanah perkuburan sederhana besar... Terdapat juga beberapa buah makam lain agak terserlah, tak tahu milik siapa.

As it is the mosque lies on a hill slope, besides it is a medium sized cemetery area... There's also a few other tombs which stand out, but I don't know to whom it belongs to.

Inilah makam Dol Said...

This is the tomb of Dol Said...

Siapa itu Dol Said? Beliau adalah penghulu ke 9 wilayah Naning, dilantik tahun 1802. Pihak Inggeris di Melaka telah menuntut agar Naning membayar sejumlah cukai tetapi ditolak Dol Said. Naning pun diserang Inggeris tetapi Dol Said dan orang-orangnya dapat mengalahkan mereka!

Who is Dol Said? He is the 9th chief of the province of Naning, installed in the year 1802. The English in Melaka demanded that Naning should a pay a measure of tax but Dol Said refused. And so Naning was attacked by the English but Dol Said and his people managed to repulse the invaders!

Naning diserang lagi Mei 1832. Jumlah yang terkorban dari kedua-dua pihak menyebabkan Dol Said menyerah kalah 1834... Ini kerana ramai yang terkorban adalah orang Melayu juga. Kerana Inggeris berjaya mendapat sokongan orang Melayu dari kumpulan lain untuk turut menyerang Naning!

Naning was attacked again in May 1832. The number of those killed from both sides made Dol Said surrender in 1834... This is because many of those killed were Malays too. Because the English managed to garner the support of some Malays from a different group to go along attacking Naning!

Dol Said diberi pencen oleh Inggeris. Beliau meninggal dunia 1849.

Dol Said was given pension by the English. He died in the year 1849.

Dari makam Dol Said saya memandang lagi ke masjid. Baru kelihatan jalan lebih mudah untuk sampai ke makam dari masjid iaitu di belah kiri gambar ini!

From the tomb of Dol Said, I looked again at the mosque. Then only I saw an easier route to get to the tomb from the mosque that is on the left inside this picture!

Gambar makam Dol Said berserta masjid...

A picture of the tomb of Dol Said along with the mosque...

Bila saya naik kembali ke masjid, baru saya tahu inilah dia Masjid Taboh Naning. Timbul rasa satu hari nanti saya mesti bermalam di sini. Sekian! :]

When I came back up to the mosque, then only I realised this is the mosque of Taboh Naning. Came the feeling that one day I must spend the night here. That's all! :]