Year 2005
This year in 2015, I was busy exploring mountains and islands, I made a stop at Malacca Island (Pulau Besar Melaka). I was with my husband and a group of spiritual practices.
While I was busy setting up the tent, I fell asleep. I went to some place that I thought was in Malacca.
There was an old town, I saw some buildings (shops) by the street.
I saw left and right of the street was a little quiet and lonely. There were a bunch of people carrying a princess in a shoulder carrier (candi) and they were heading to the palace. At the side of the street, I saw a written sign – JUGRA
I wasn’t sure who was the princess as my dream was a little too short to know more.
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When I woke up, I told my husband, I said, ‘I just went to an old city, quite like in Malacca, but the street sign written ‘JUGRA’. The priest (ustadz) heard what I said and replied, ‘Jugra is not in Malacca but in Kuala Selangor”.
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Oops… I might have mistaken the place again. I thought I was in Malacca but nah, I travelled to Jugra, the place in other states.
What was the connection between Kuala Selangor and Malacca?
I've never heard a story from my family about our lineage in Kuala Selangor.
After the agenda in Malacca ended, I went home to Kuala Lumpur and looked for information about Jugra.
I called my mother and asked if we had anything to do with Kuala Selangor. Then my father said, ‘there are still relatives in Kuala Selangor, we were bugis from Batu Bara, Sumatra originally, there may be more relatives there if you looked for them ’,
Nah, to my surprised. In my childhood to now, my family never talk about relatives in Kuala Selangor.
Father never told us. Apparently, there was one incident where a family member from Kuala Selangor came looking for my father, with a concerned to some land.
At that time, I was studying in the University. They gave a genealogy book of my father's lineage. Masya Allah.
If I never asked, the mystery of Jugra will kept unfolded.
How can this not be important to me? I wanted to know about it of course, I have faith in my dreams.
I contacted our long lost contact and so happened that they planned for a family reunion and we were invited.
Since the dream in 2005, I took a family trip to the Reunion in 2010 and that was 5 years apart.
At the reunion, I saw we have many brothers and sisters lived in Kuala Selangor. I still have my father with us at the time and of course he knew all the old folks.
We are the new generation, doesn’t know much and most of them.
I found that my family was from the lineage of Admiral Bentan, Megat Seri Rama (Laksamana Bentan). One of the warrior who killed the Malacca King, Sultan Mahmud Mangkat di Julang.
Because of the killed, he was chased out of Malacca and went to Singapore. His descendents came back to Malaysia, some lived in Johor, Perak and Kuala Selangor until today.
The rank of megat and princess had not been used by us ever since our Bentan killed the Malacca King.
The salsila lineage book had all our names there, and this book had been kept in the palace of Perak. To 'Ma'ding was our great grandfather, who was also a silver Bugis warrior too. So they were among the members in the Perak palace until now.
From zero knowledge of my silsila lineage, now I had abundance to remember and to recognize.
Thank you God for giving me a short dream though it was simple but I managed to find the clue at the end.
