Friday, October 30, 2009

Makam menonjol di (An oustanding tomb at) Pokok Mangga, Melaka...

Dalam satu perjalanan menyusuri tepian pantai dari Tanjung Keling, Melaka ke selatan saya terlihat bangunan makam yang agak menyerlah di tepi jalan besar...
In a trip following the coastline from Tanjung Keling, Melaka to the south I saw a tomb building which is rather outstanding besides the main road...


Bukan saya tidak pernah mengambil laluan ini malah banyak kali. Tetapi baru kali ini ia kelihatan begitu menarik, kebetulan malam itu sudah masuk 1 Ramadhan!
It's not as if I've never took this route before, in fact I've done it many times. But it is only this time it looked so interesting, it happened that the night have entered the 1st day of Ramadhan, the holy Muslim fasting month!

Saya pun pergi untuk melihat lebih dekat...
I then went to have a closer look...


Pelik sungguh... ia adalah makam orang Islam tetapi dibina oleh orang Cina bukan Islam!
This is so strange... it is the tomb of a Muslim but yet built by non-Muslim Chineses!


Ada tersebut bahawa ini adalah makam Datuk Haji Dalif... atau Haji Zalif? Saya pun tak pasti huruf Jawi untuk permulaan nama itu apakah huruf Dal ataupun Za.
There is mention that this is the tomb of Datuk Haji Dalif... or is it Haji Zalif? I myself am not sure whether the Jawi letter for the start of the name is the letter Dal or Za.




Di dalam bangunan ini terdapat sejumlah makam, rasanya milik ahli keluarga. Yang menjadi persoalan, siapakah mereka ini sehingga semua batu nesan disaluti kain berwarna kuning yang biasanya menandakan pemiliknya berdarah raja atau dianggap keramat? Sehingga bangunannya dibina pula oleh orang Cina? Sekadar nota, ini adalah artikel ke 292 di sini...
Inside this building there are a number of tombs, I feel it's that of family members. What becomes the question is, who were these people that all the tombstones are wrapped with yellow clothings which normally signifies the owner as being of royal blood or is considered a miraculous person? Such that its building was built by the Chinese? Just a note, this is the 292nd article here...

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