PAHANG (SULTANATE)

PAHANG (Sultanate)

Title: Sultan (from 1882)
Religion: Muslim
State: Malaysia
Dynasty:


Present Ruler: HRH Sultan Haji AHMAD SHAH AL-MUSTA'IN BILLAH bin al-Marhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar Ri'ayatuddin al-Mu'adzam Shah, 5th Sultan of Pahang (1974/-)
born 24th October 1930 in Pekan, Pahang, 7th Yang di Pertuan Agong 1979/1984, married 22nd April 1954 in Kuala Lipis, Tengku Hajjah Afzan binti Tengku Muhammed (see below), born 4th December 1933 in Kuala Terengganu, Tengku Ampuan Besar Pahang V, died 1988, married 2ndly, 1991, Cik Puan Kelsum, Sultanah [cr. 22-IX-1992], and has issue.
Tengku Hajjah Meriam binti Sultan Hajji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah (by Tengku Hajjah Afzan), born 1st April 1955, Tengku Puteri Lela Wangsa Pahang, married 1stly, Tengku Kamil Ismail, born 1st February 1950, married 2ndly, Sheikh Mohammed Taufik Quezir, and has issue.
Tengku Hajjah Muhaini binti Sultan Hajji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah (by Tengku Hajjah Afzan), born 31st August 1956, married 1stly, Tengku Ibrahim Petra, Tengku Besar Indera Raja Kelantan, married 2ndly, Dato' Munir, and has issue.
Tengku Hajjah Aishah Marcella binti Sultan Hajji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah (by Tengku Hajjah Afzan), married 1stly, 25th October 1980, Tunku Kamil Ikram bin Tunku Panglima Besar Abdullah of Negeri Sembilan, married 2ndly, Mohammed Johan, and has issue.
Tengku Abdullah Alam bin Sultan Hajji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah (by Tengku Hajjah Afzan), born 30th July 1959 in Pekan, Tengku Mahkota Pahang, Yang Amat Di Hormati (DKII) [cr.2002], married 1stly, 1986, Tengku Hajjah Azizah Aminah binti Sultan Mahmud Iskander of Johore, born 8th May 1960, Tengku Puan Pahang, married 2ndly, c1992, Julia Rais, born 1971, and has issue.
Tengku Putera Jishan bin Tengku Abdullah Alam (by Tengku Hajjah Azizah Aminah)
Tengku Iskander Shah bin Tengku Abdullah Alam (by Tengku Hajjah Azizah Aminah), born 1990, died 1990.
Tengku Afzan Atizatullah binti Tengku Abdullah Alam (by Tengku Hajjah Azizah Aminah)
Tengku Ahmad Mu'adzam Shah bin Tengku Abdullah Alam (by Tengku Hajjah Azizah Aminah)
Tengku Hasanal Ibrahim Shah bin Tengku Abdullah Alam (by Tengku Hajjah Azizah Aminah), born 17th September 1995.
Tengku Putera Afzan bin Tengku Abdullah Alam (by Julia)
Tengku Ilishah Ameerah binti Tengku Abdullah Alam (by Julia)
Tengku Ilyana binti Tengku Abdullah Alam (by Julia)
Tengku Abdulrahman bin Sultan Hajji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah (by Tengku Hajjah Afzan), born c1960, Tengku Muda Pahang, married 23rd July 2002, Cik Puan Julita Aishah binti Abdul Latif, born c1971.
Tengku Datuk Hajjah Nong Fatimah binti Sultan Hajji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah (by Tengku Hajjah Afzan), Tengku Puteri Seri Setia Bakti Pahang [cr.2002], married Mohammed Moiz, and has issue, three children.
Tengku Datuk Hajjah Shahariah binti Sultan Hajji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah (by Tengku Hajjah Afzan), Tengku Puteri Seri Bongsu Pahang [cr.2002], married Baharim, and has issue, two daughters.
Tengku Abdul Fahad Muhammed Mu'adzam bin Sultan Hajji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah (by Cik Puan Kelsum), born February 1994, Yang Amat Mulia Kerabat-Kerabat Bergelar Tengku Arif Temenggong Pahang [cr.2002].

Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Shah

Early life
As a child liked nothing better than to play with the children in the kampungs, beyond the istana (palace) in which he was reared – an istana built by a Chinese contractor in the style of a pagoda with fire-snorting dragons climbing around the walls in tiled fantasies. The istana no longer stands as it was razed by fire and on its foundations rose the State Council chamber, which marked a new era in the history of Kedah.
Abdul Rahman began his education in 1909 at a Malay Primary School, Jalan Baharu, in Alor Star and was later transferred to the Government English School, now the Sultan Abdul Hamid College, Alor Star, where he studied during the day and read the Qur'an in the afternoon.
When he first went to school in Alor Star, Kedah, little Tunku screamed against what he considered was the indignity of being carried to and fro by a Court retainer. Royalty was autocratic those days and little princes were not suppose to dirty their feet, hence they were carried everywhere. The Tunku rejoiced the day he didn’t have to be carried to school.
Two years later in 1911, when he was eight, he was sent to study at Debsirin School in Bangkok along with his three brothers. In 1915, he returned and continued his studies at Penang Free School.
In 1918, Abdul Rahman was awarded a Kedah State Scholarship to further his studies at St Catharine's College in the University of Cambridge, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1925. He was the first student from Kedah to study in the United Kingdom under the sponsorship of the Kedah State Government.
Prior to joining St Catherine's, he was being coached in the little village of Little Stukeley in Huntingdon, England for entry to a public school
The Tunku was fond of fast driving during his days in England and had amounted 28 traffic offences.
He is also said to be quite superstitious. He does not cut his hair or nails on Friday or walk under a ladder.

Tun Abdul Razak Bin Dato' Hussein Al-Haj

Background
Born in Pulau Keladi,Pekan, Pahang on March 11, 1922, Tun Razak is the first of two child to Dato' Hussein bin Mohd Taib and Hajah Teh Fatimah bt Daud. Of aristocratic descent, Abdul Razak studied at the Malay College Kuala Kangsar.
After joining the Malay Administrative Service in 1939, he was awarded a scholarship to study at Raffles College in Singapore in 1940. His studies at the college ceased with the onset of the Second World War. During the war he helped organize the Wataniah resistance movement in Pahang.[1]
After World War II, Tun Razak left for Britain in 1947 to study law. In 1950 he received a law degree and qualified as barrister at Lincoln's Inn in London. During his student days in England, Tun Razak was a member of the British Labour Party and a prominent student leader of the Kesatuan Melayu Great Britain (Malay Association of Great Britain). He also formed the Malayan Forum, an organisation for Malayan students to discuss their country's political issues.

Tun Hussein Bin Dato' Onn

Early life
Tun Hussein received his early education in Singapore and at the English College in Johor Bahru. After leaving school, he joined the Johor Military Forces as a cadet in 1940 and was sent a year later to the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun, India. Upon completion of his training, he was absorbed into the Indian Army and served in the Middle East when the Second World War broke. After the war, his vast experience prompted the British to employ him as an instructor at the Malayan Police Recruiting and Training Centre in Rawalpindi.
Tun Hussein came back to Malaysia in 1945 and was appointed Commandant of the Johor Bahru Police Depot. The following year he joined the Malaya Civil Service as an assistant administrative officer in Segamat, Johor. He was later posted to the state of Selangor, becoming Klang and Kuala Selangor’s district officer.

Tun Dr.Mahathir Bin Mohamad

Personal

Mahathir was born in Alor Star, the capital of the northern Malaysian state of Kedah,[6] the youngest of nine children[7] of a schoolteacher and a housewife. His father, Mohamad Iskandar, was of half-Indian origin, being the son of a Malayalee Muslim (who migrated from Kerala) and a Malay mother, while Mahathir's own mother, Wan Tampawan, was Malay.[8]
During World War II, he sold pisang goreng (banana fritters) and other snacks to supplement his family income during the Japanese occupation of Malaya. Mahathir attended a Malay vernacular school before continuing his education at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College in Alor Star. Mahathir then attended the King Edward VII Medical College (the predecessor of present-day National University of Singapore) in Singapore, where he edited a medical student magazine called The Cauldron; he also contributed to the The Straits Times newspaper anonymously under the nickname "Che Det". Mahathir was also President of the Muslim Society in the college.[9] Upon graduation in 1953, Mahathir joined the then Malayan government service as a medical officer. He married Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali—a fellow doctor and former classmate in college—on 5 August 1956, and left government service in 1957 to set up his own private practice in Alor Star. Mahathir thrived in private practice, and allowed him to own by 1959 a Pontiac Catalina and employ an ethnic Chinese chauffeur (at the time, almost all chauffeurs in Malaysia were Malays, owing to the economic dominance of the ethnic Chinese).[10] Some critics have suggested this foreshadowed a later hallmark of Mahathir's politics, which focused on the "cultivation of such emblems of power".[11]
From his marriage with Siti Hasmah binti Haji Mohamad Ali, they have five children,[12] three sons and two daughters.[13] Both Mukhriz and Mokhzani Mahathir[14] are involved in business as well as in politics while their eldest daughter Marina Mahathir is a prominent local writer and AIDS activist.[15]

Tun Abdullah Bin Haji Ahmad Badawi

Background and early life

Abdullah Badawi was born in Kampung Perlis, Bayan Lepas, Penang to a prominent religious family. Badawi's paternal grandfather, Syeikh Abdullah Badawi Fahim, was of Arab descent.[3] Syeikh Abdullah was a well-respected religious leader and nationalist, was one of the founding members of Hizbul Muslimin, later known as PAS. After independence, Syeikh Abdullah became the first mufti of Penang after Independence.[4] His father, Ahmad Badawi, was a prominent religious figure and UMNO member. His maternal grandfather, Ha Su-chiang (also known as Hassan), was a Chinese Muslim who came from Sanya in Hainan.[5]
Abdullah Badawi is a former student of Bukit Mertajam High School. After failing to enrol into his first choice course, economics, Badawi opted for a less to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Islamic Studies from the University of Malaya in 1964.

Dato' Mohd Najib Bin Tun Abdul Razak

Personal life

Najib is the eldest of Abdul Razak's six sons (the other five being Nizam, Nazim, Nazir, Nazri Aziz and Johari). His younger brother, Nazir Abdul Razak, runs the country's second-largest lender, Bumiputera-Commerce Holdings Bhd.[2] Being the son of the second Prime Minister of Malaysia, and a nephew of Hussein Onn, the third Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib is regarded by Malaysians as a political blue blood. He was first married to Tengku Puteri Zainah Tengku Eskandar; but is currently married to Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor. He has three sons (Nizar, Nazifuddin and Norashman) and two daughters (Puteri Norlisa and Nooryana Najwa).
Najib was born in in Kuala Lipis, Pahang, and he received his primary and secondary education at St. John's Institution, Kuala Lumpur. He later attended Malvern College in Worcestershire, England, and subsequently attended the University of Nottingham, where he received a bachelor's degree in industrial economics in 1974.
Najib holds the title of Orang Kaya Inderapura Shahbandar of Pahang Darul Makmur.

map of pahang (geography)

GEOGRAPHY

Geographically diverse, Pahang ranges from mountainous country in its west to its coastline in the east. It adjoins the South China Sea for a distance of 208 kilometers. Terengganu and Kelantan bound the State on the north, by Perak in the west and by Selangor and Negeri Sembilan to the southwest. Johor forms the State's southern boundary.Of the total land area of the state, 48.8% is covered by forest, 23.4% is agricultural land, 16.3% is government land, 10.8% is urban and industrial land, 0.5% is Orang Asli (Aborigine) Reserve and the remaining 0.2% is mining land.

about my hometown

CULTURE

In Pahang, the visitor will find fascinating evidence of the diverse Malaysian cultures, manifested in the customs, clothes, food, art forms, games and festivals of the various races.Pahang has a rich cultural heritage and its specialty is songket, the distinctive hand-woven gold and silver brocade. Travelers can visit the handicraft centres at Teluk Chempedak, Sungai Karang and Cherating. Household items made from pandanus leaves and woodcarvings, shell crafts and batik are sold at these centers.Visitors should also not miss out on the Pahang Silk Weaving Centre in Pulau Keladi, Pekan where they can see the process of making the intricately woven material. For those short of time there is a showroom in Kuantan, located on the first floor of Teruntum Complex in Jalan Mahkota.Batik, the unique wax-printed fabric, is available everywhere with manufacturing outfits at Kuantan, Semambu, Beserah and Cherating. At some of these places the visitors are able to view how batik is made.

Pahang History

The Origin Of It's Name

Pahang Darul Makmur was called differently many centuries ago. A Chinese writer called it as Pang-Hang Peng-Heng, Pang-Heng, Pong-Fong, Phe-Hang, Pang-Kang and others. In 1225, Choa Ju-Kua wrote the book 'Chu-Fan-Chi'. He wrote that amongst the states invaded by San-Fo-Chi was one called Peng-Keng, i.e. Pahang. The Arabs and Europeans at that time called it as Pam, Pan, Phang, Paam, Poa, Paon, Phamm, Paham, Fanhan, Phang and Pahagh. G.R Tibbets, a historian who commented the story written by Mas'udi thought that Fanjab (in Mas'udi's book) was Pahang. He preferred to call it Fanhan, Panghang/Panhang, rather than Fanjab. Certain people said that the name 'Pahang', originated from the language of a Siamese aborigines tribe, meaning 'ore'. The aborigines used to live here and opened up several mining areas, especially in Sungai Lembing. According to an old Malay story, at the place near the Pahang River, on the opposite side of Kampung Kembahang, a large 'mahang' tree fell across the river, thus the name ' Pahang originated'. Pahang was also known as 'Inderapura', otherwise called Pahang Inderapura. It's infamous Royal Town and once of the Malacca Sultanate, Pekan was known as 'Pura'.

"MUSE" KNIGHTS OF CYDONIA

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(repeat, alto)

Come ride with me,
Through the veins of history,
I'll show you a god
Who falls asleep on the job.

And how can we win,
When fools can be kings,
Don't waste your time,
Or time will waste you,

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(repeat, alto)

No one's gonna take me alive,
The time has come to make things right,
You and I must fight for our rights,
You and I must fight to survive,

No one's gonna take me alive,
The time has come to make things right,
You and I must fight for our rights,
You and I must fight to survive

(solo)

No one's going to take me alive,
The time has come to make things right,
You and I must fight for our rights,
You and I must fight to survive.

(solo to outro)