Makam (Tomb of) Sheikh Abdul Wahab Rokan

Bersambung dari Makam pujangga Tengku Amir Hamzah (Tomb of the poet Tengku Amir Hamzah).

Continued from Makam pujangga Tengku Amir Hamzah (Tomb of the poet Tengku Amir Hamzah).

Sekitar 6 km perjalanan dari Masjid Azizi pula terdapat bangunan ini.

Around 6 km journey from the Azizi mosque in turn lies this building.

Ia kelihatan seperti masjid tetapi sebenarnya bangunan makam!

It looks like a mosque but is actually a tomb building!

Bangunan dibina begitu terserlah kerana taraf tokoh yang disemadikan.

The building was built so outstanding because of the personality laid to rest.

Beliau ialah Sheikh Abdul Wahab Rokan seorang pemimpin tariqat Naqsyabandiah yang dianggap sebagai wali besar abad ke 19 Masihi. Ramai anak muridnya menjadi para pemimpin tariqat lalu menyebarkannya ke seluruh Nusantara.

He is Sheikh Abdul Wahab Rokan a Naqsyabandiah tariqat (Sufi or Islamic spiritual order) leader who is considered to be a major saint in the 19th century. Many of his students became tariqat leaders and spread it all over Nusantara (the Malay archipelago).