Malays and it beliefs....

My partner's grandmother passed yesterday.

God bless her soul and may Allah place her in the those who are constantly blessed.

However, much need to be said on things that has happen prior to her death.

A week ago, before the CNY holidays...my family were rushed to our kampung on the news of her impending death. We started our journey abt 4.30 am...and arrive at 12.15pm. Straight to her house and tend to her illness. She looks more like an Ethopian during the famine days more than an old woman in her last days. Grasping for air...she is weaken by the minute.

Having my fair share of seeing my relatives passed away, i knew her time will come...it is just a matter of when. Late last nite, prior to our arrival....a group of vilagers even recite the yassin feeling that she could die any minute. But somehow she prevailed....and that was the beginning of my disposition.

Due to her strong zest of life, much have been said abt her, that perhaps she has something "unholy" residing inside her, that she kept something like a "hantu raya" that helps to preserve her life. She was a Mak Andam before which heighten the speculations that she kept some sort of "help" during her practice to be successful...To add more drama to it, one of our relative who learn the art of "andam" also strucked by a sort of hysteria and shrieked in fear when closed to her.

So then....so many bomohs and shamans come out in the woods ...doing their chanting and trance, medium and all sorts of methods to rid of her evil spirits. Her sons even told me that their mother kept something with her and angered by the fact that she didnt tell them abt it.

Okay ....let's stop and ponder abt it awhile.

1) If you are their mother and assuming that you do have a "hantu raya" accompanied you, would you called your children one day on a quite little evening and tell them that you have one?? I mean ....who's the hell going to do that? Jatuhlah maruah dia ...bodoh la bodoh.

2) Even if she kept a "hantu raya" even...it is still not nice to say it in front of her ...she is placed in the guest room and can hear what you are saying. It is disrespect and totally insensitive to call her "memakai" and what not. Afterall, she is still your mother....and syurga di bawah kaki ibu la beb!

It is not i do not believe in some ghosts and evil spirits, i know they exist..but to the best of my knowledge , jin and all these spirits cannot harmed us directly. Cerita org mati akibat terpijak anak jin ....adalah bodoh sama sekali kerana mana kita nampak jin tersebut, kalau kita nampak takkan kita nak pijak la kan....anak jin tuh??Anak jiran sebelah yang kekadang memekak pun kita takkan pijak sampai mati....apalah bodoh sangat!!!

Yet...references are made to Misteri Nusantara and all those mustika articles. Alahai...i may be a bad muslim but i know in times like this, our holy scriptures and hadith should be the source rather than those nonsense.

Itu yang aku kecewa sangat...mentality org Melayu kita in the 21st century...lagi negara maju, makin banyak bomoh and all those nonsense, somehow we need to have one foot in the different realm.

Correct me if i am wrong....but kepercayaaan karut nie haruslah ditinggalkan...silap2 syirik beb!