Assalamualaikum.
“Kau sendiri tahu, tiga hari sebelum Portugis datang menyerang Melaka, pesta perkahwinan puteri baginda dengan putera Sultan pahang amatlah hebat. Minum nira sebanyak-banyaknya, sembilan ribu sembilan tempayan tuak habis di teguk percuma. Bukan pula perangan orang melaka kalau tidak ronggeng sampai pagi dari senja dengan iringan nyanyian cucu biduanita Melaka, Cik Siti Mustika. Malam perkahwinan di Raja itu, lapan ribu lapan anak dara tidak lagi nirmala akibat disentuh lelaki. Adapun khabarnya lapan ribu lapan teruna menumpahkan nutfah”(1515:73)
Frequently, I was quite active in Twitter. My love towards books brought me to follow Dr. Faisal Tehrani's twitter account. Oh Allah, I adore his writing so much. My first sight love to him is through his fiction book, 1515, when I was in Form 3. It was also a starter for me to love really much in Malay Literature. Look, I learned so much old time idioms there. If I asked BM teacher, they won't know, I bet. Fews of it : alim katak di tepi air (ada ilmu tapi tidak digunakan) , pantai gula berlaut madu (perempuan cantik serta berbudi bahasa) , anjing menyalak khafilah tetap lalu (tetap mara walau ada rintangan).
"Andai kau benar ingin tahu apa yang berlaku , ia bermula pada April 1511. Wizurai Tua yang percaya dirinya ialah utusan Tuhan untuk menanam salib di atas setiap inci muka bumi itu belayar dari Goa bersama-sama lapan belas buah bahtera, seangkatan kecil lapan ratus soldadu Portugis serta dua ratus orang upahan Malabar” (1515:58)
“Kau sendiri tahu, tiga hari sebelum Portugis datang menyerang Melaka, pesta perkahwinan puteri baginda dengan putera Sultan pahang amatlah hebat. Minum nira sebanyak-banyaknya, sembilan ribu sembilan tempayan tuak habis di teguk percuma. Bukan pula perangan orang melaka kalau tidak ronggeng sampai pagi dari senja dengan iringan nyanyian cucu biduanita Melaka, Cik Siti Mustika. Malam perkahwinan di Raja itu, lapan ribu lapan anak dara tidak lagi nirmala akibat disentuh lelaki. Adapun khabarnya lapan ribu lapan teruna menumpahkan nutfah”(1515:73)
“Usaha Portugis untuk menawan masjid hamba patahkan kerana hati kecil hamba tahu jika masjid ini kalah bermakna kalahlah Islam”
(1515:151)
“sesetengah pula ligat membakar istana, maka api pun merebak marak. Pantas menyala ke seluruh kota. Kerana istana Melaka itu memang teramat besar, kau sendiri tahu hebatnya istana Melakan di lereng bukit itu, bukat asap memenuhi ruang udara”
(1515:72)
Dr. Faisal Tehrani use a brave woman , Nyemah Mulya in his story as a srikandi of Malacca to represent the history during the Portugese attck and the lacks of Malacca's administration. The overview on my thoughts about history had widen. I can see how a big empire fell due to corruption.
And my loves keep continues after I bought a book of him, Perempuan Nan Bercinta last year in a book festival. This hundreds pages book was really really really full with knowledge !
And his searching of Ahli Sunnah Waljamaah (Sunni) and Syiah got a very hard critism from people.
I don't understand when some people said he is Syiah, seen like he tries to tell community that Syiah is the correct path in Islam. Oh my, did they already read this book? And did they really understand his thinking? It is just full of research, philosophies and histories.
In this book, it is said :
" kalau kita menolak Syiah secara total,rugilah kita kerana akan hilang sebahagian besar dalam keunngulan Islam. ramai tokoh Islam seperti bapa perubatan, Ibn Sina adalah Syiah. Al-Khwarizmi yang dikenali Algorism oleh orang Eropah juga adalah Syiah"
" kekurangan dalam Ahli Sunnah Waljamaah dapat dijawab oleh Syiah dengan saksamanya. Begitu juga sebaliknya "
I'm not trying to say that I'm Syiah. Sorry readers, I'm still a Sunni. But, to make Islam as a perfect religion, it is not worth at all when we are separate into different party and understanding. As long as we all still in a same root- Al-Quran and Sunnah, I don't mind to say that Dr. Faisal Tehrani is right.
Somes of his words may weak but my duty to find the right one because I am a Sunni. My iman and life is according to Ahli Sunnah Waljamaah.
To be a good reader, we don't have to be so paranoid. Even so it has a lot of wrongs, it is us who have to find the correct one. This is because different author gives different presentations of books. Don't simply easy to accept everything that we know. Keep on searching in different views as well. Isn't that will improve our knowledge more? And try to be respect with their stands?
I was a bit dissapointed when I know that last April the book is being banned. Really, I am so fortunately and grateful to buy this book. :)
Last few days, I just brought his new book again ! Soooo happy !
I knew he is going to launch his new book from twitter. It is held at Kinokuniya, Suria KLCC.
Luckily, I went there after that.
Not as thick as Perempuan Nan Bercinta, it is only costs me RM18 !
I don't have time yet to read this trough, but I will read this book.
Done with one point of view of my loves..
Thanks for read !
