Today on April 18, 2018, to coincide with the World Heritage Day, I am with friends from the Heritage Heritage Information Center of Samudra Pasai Heritage or CISAH (Center of Information for Samudra Pasai Heritage) to trace and reconstruct the Aceh hinterland North with a focal point west of the long flow of the Pasai River. Which is administratively located in the village Leubok Tuwe, district Meurah Mulia, north Aceh district.
Several small hills and the valleys of the Pasai River did not escape the shifting this time, to discover the remains and historical sites that are still buried or dormant. Because this region is an important area for us to record together as the zero point of Islamic civilization in Southeast Asia in the true sense. Why not, in this silent hinterland there are two quietly rested figures whose tombs contain the epitaph of the earliest dates or dates in the whole of Southeast Asia.
But do not expect here there is a memorial ceremony that is magnificent like on the island there in the warning 'World Heritage Day' today, because this place is not much to know him. Both of these tombs until now have not made the site of Cultural Heritage by parties who have been pat the chest as Hall Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Or perhaps because it is viewed only as a piece of stone without value, and deny the information carved on its surface. True indeed, this area there are no storied stone building sculptured reliefs of ancient figures like the Borobudur Temple. We also admit this place does not leave the stone building soaring into the sky like Prambanan Temple. Because the supporters of this region were not the materialists, the people here only played a role in improving the living order of the people of Southeast Asia, to be returned to the original purpose of human life through the revelation received by the chosen people. This area is changing the face of Southeast Asia as it is today. Because of the great role of this region (Samudra Pasai) formerly was, in the 21st century now Indonesia is listed as a country with the largest Muslim followers in the World. Yes, that's just the legacy of this land.
World Heritage Day has never reached this region, though we are trying to globalize ourselves to celebrate it, but the taste of today's warnings can not afford to take this place out of alienation. There are tears that encourage us so that the people of the world know that the parent of the Heritage of Islamic Southeast Asia is actually here, behind the tropical grass that the air is no longer cool.
Just to share how it feels like something very important to be alienated, presumably there is little presentation of what is written on one of these tombstones, here is the result of a study by a team of CISAH epigraphers;
(1) هذا قبر
(2) السعيد الشهيد محبوب قلوب الخلائق
(3) ابن محمود توفي [في] تا [ر] يخ يوم ثنيي (كذا) الأحد
(4) سلخ ذي الحجه ستمائية (كذ)
(5) و عشرين وتيك من [ا] لهجرة الن [ب] و [ية]
Translation:
- This is the grave
- a happy person, a martyr, a man who is loved by the hearts of many
- Mahmud's son, was dated on the day after the second of [?] Sunday (ie, Wednesday), 4. the end of Dhul Hijjah in six hundred (600)
- and (add) twenty-two (22) of the Prophet's hijrah. "
The oldest tombstone in Southeast Asia, the owner of this tomb is a prominent figure (martyr) who is titled 'Mahbub qulub al-khala'iq' Ibn Mahmud, died 622 Hijri / 1226 AD. In Leubok Tuwe, Meurah Mulia, North Aceh.
Pasai, Wednesday April 18, 2018.
(Author, Arya Purbaya / CISAH expedition coordinator)
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