Hajjah Sharifah bt Haji Abdul Rashid 1957-2017

Name: Hajjah Sharifah bt Haji Abdul Rashid
Call names: Pah, Kak Pah
Born: 24 October 1957 General Hospital, Malacca
Deceased: 3:41 pm, Saturday, 16 December 2017 at CCU, Hospital Ampang, KL


Education

1. Kindy in Banda Hilir, Malacca and Alor Star, Kedah 1963
2. Standard 1-4 at Sultanah Asma Primary School, Alor Star, Kedah 1964-1967
3. Standard 4-6 at Tanjong Aru Primary School, Tanjong Aru, Jesselton, Sabah
    1967-1969
4. Form 1-2 at Zainab Secondary School, Telipot, Kota Bharu, Kelantan 1970-1972
5. Form 3 at Malacca Girls' High School 1973 LCE
6. Private college studies (shorthand, typing, business studies) (by post).

    Certificate in stenography 1974-1975
7. Completed Form 5 studies (by post) MCE
8. Completed Form 6 studies (by post) HSC
9. Certificate in Hospitality and Catering at ITM, Shah Alam, Selangor
10. Studied French (course by postal service) 1982
11. Certificate in Arabic language by KITAB at Masjid Negeri Pulau Pinang
      in Penang 2012

Languages

Pah studied French via postal course in 1982. Pah learned Arabic from Kolej Islam Teknologi Antarabangsa (KITAB) in Pulau Pinang in 2012. She and Siti attended the course together and graduated together in 2012. Pah knew 4 languages:

1. Malay
2. English
3. French
4. Arabic (certificate)

Study of Al-Quran

Pah learned the Quran since small, and from various people. She loved the Quran.

1. Pah learned the Quran since age 5, from Nenek Ani in Banda Hilir, Malacca 1960-62
2. Pah learned the Quran from "Nenek Mengaji" in Jalan Langgar, Alor Star, Kedah 1964-67
3. Pah learned Quran reading from Ustaz Haji Abdul Wahab (Pak Ji Wahab), a relative in Minden Heights, Penang (Aunty Intan's uncle) 1978 till Pak Ji Wahab passed away.
4. Pah learned Quran recitation from Masjid Negeri Pulau Pinang (ladies' group) 2012

Hajj 1993

Pah went for Hajj in 1993 with Mak and Minah. Mak was 62 years old, Pah was 36 years old, and Minah was 23 years old, when they performed their first Hajj. They took a private Hajj package by Amin Rawa in George Town, Penang. A private Hajj package in Penang was approximately RM10,000.00 in 1993/94. 

Pah gave me her Hajj passport for my research on the Malaysian Hajj Doctors in 2013. There are many dates in her passport: 1 July 1993 on the green front cover, 2 July 1993 on an inside page, and 22 April 1993 on an inside page. They were in Saudi Arabia from 22 May 1993 to 1 July 1993. Hajj was 9 & 10 Zulhijjah 1413 Hijrah (Sunday, 30 & Monday, 31 May 1993). They must have performed Haji Ifrad. They left from Subang International Airport and returned to the same airport. Below are details I have worked out from her 1993 Hajj passport.

Passport, visa and outbound flight:

• Passport issued: 10 November 1992, Bayaran $15.00
• Saudi Arabian visa: 22 April 1993, stamp chop by Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Kuala Lumpur, Gratis, signed by Jamal Salleh Attieh; 322, Tempat dan Tarikh Dikeluarkan: Kuala Lumpur, 17 May 1993 
• Flight departure: 22 May 1993, MAS flight MH 4190
• Portrait: B/W; Chop: Lembaga Urusan Dan Tabung Haji (LUTH), Malaysia

Details of residences in Makkah & Madinah:

• MALAYSIA, KT 81, Pakej Amin Rawa, Kumpulan: RBK 111/01, Bas: 407
• Penginapan di Tanah Suci: Makkah: Bangunan MAR ZUKA, No. Bilik 215; Madinah: Shobra, No. Bilik __

Details of return:

• Flight home: MAS flight MH 4481, Siri No 24883 (322), Penerima, A 
• Transportation: 1 July 1993, Cop Syarikat Pengangkutan filled by Perbadanan Pengangkutan Perusahaan Tabung Haji (PPPTH)
• Arrived home: 2 July 1993, LTA Subang; Cop Malaysian Immigration

Umrah 2003
Pah, Bapak and Mak went for Umrah in 2003. Mak died the following year, on 5 June 2004. Bapak died 5 years later, on 8 March 2009. Pah died 14 years later, on 16 December 2017.

Close friends
Pah was a friendly person and had a number of friends. Here are some of her friends which I can recall. There may be more.

1. Classmates: Catherine Marcus (Portuguese Settlement/Tg Aru Primary School), Datuk Mahathir Lokman (Tg Aru), Pak Vaa Dee Siri Mongul (daughter of Thai Consulate in Kelantan), Johana Johari (MGHS, daughter of RTM musician Johari Salleh) etc
2. Colleagues at CAP: Mr Idris, Siti Mariam bt Yusof, Uma, a Chinese friend
3. Sibs: Aminah, Amin, Rabi and me (Abang Sharif and Farid are deceased)
4. Uncle Din & family
5. Nephews and nieces
6. Kama & family
7. Neighbours (Cikgu Puteh's family)
8. Dr Kamil Ariff's family 
9. Aunts and cousins
10. Caretaker at Rawang homecare
11. Caretaker at Ampang homecare

Music

Pah loved Hawaiian music. She introduced me to Hawaiian guitar music. She didn't play any musical instrument. She liked the sound of Hawaiian guitar on the electronic organ. So I played that for her, each morning before I went to work.

Cuisine

Pah loved to cook. She had a certificate in cooking. She cooked many delicious meals for our family in Penang. She loved to cook mee goreng pedas! She also cooked dinner - beef steak with mashed potato and peas and delicious brown gravy. She bought fresh delicious bread from bakeries in Penang. She would walk to Pasar Tun Sardon and back, to buy ingredients to cook for the day. Pah also  knew Minah Restaurant, the Kelantan caterer at Kg Sg Gelugor, and Umi Seha caterer (a relative) in Gelugor.

Character

Pah never made an angry face at me. She always smiled even under difficult times. If she disagreed, she would say so. If she was happy, she would share her happiness by cooking for us. She was a kind sister. She always made breakfast for me. She also prepared sandwiches or mee goreng for me. She would always ask me if I was hungry because she wanted to cook for me. She washed my clothes and my car for me. She washed my car daily and dried it. She laid my shoes at the front door so I just had to slip on my shoes and not search for them. She was so happy just to see my happy.

Charity

Pah was a charitable person and was always prepared to help and give whatever she could. Pah had donated a lot to charity. She donated everywhere she went. She had donated to homecare centre(s). 

Animals

Pah loved animals. She loved cats. She looked after her cats when she lived in Penang. She would mix food for her cats and threw food out the kitchen window to her cats. She would call for her cats and they would show up. She would watch them eat from her kitchen window. If her cats were still hungry, she would mix more food for them. 

Pah also fed the birds. She fed the little sparrows that came to feed at the Penang house. She fed them pieces of soaked white bread.

Other than that she had moles in her house. She didn't rear them but they liked her and loved to frighten her at home. They are called cincorot! Pah set up traps for them because they gnawed and destroyed the wiring in her wooden house.

Life

Pah was born a healthy little baby girl. Mak didn't say anything much about her birth. However, Mak mentioned that she suffered a bad fall at age 2 years, which affected her brain a bit. She climbed the fence and fell and hit her head on the cement floor. As a result, she could do everything and study everything, except that numbers let her down at formal school. But she wasn't giving up. She overcame her deficiencies with private postal studies, and went on to study business skills and languages. She became knowledgeable and started working at the Consumer Association in Penang (CAP).

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FAMILY PHOTOS

Pah's green Hajj passport 1993

Pah's Umrah vaccination booklet 2003

Mak died on 5 June 2004. She is buried in Selayang, Selangor.

Rumah Mak jadi rumah Pah after Mak died.

Pak Saleh and family and Mak Bedah visited Bapak and Pah in Penang 2005 

Bapak died on 8 March 2009. He is buried at Masjid Gelugor graveyard, Penang.

Siblings in 2009

1. Abang Sharif (deceased 2017; eldest)
2. Sharifah (Pah; deceased 2017)
3. Faridah (me)
4. Rabi'ah (Rabi)
5. Farid (deceased 2015)
6. Amin
7. Aminah (youngest)

7 beradik berkumpul dan bergambar selepas Bapak meninggal.
Gambar di rumah arwah Mak di Minden Heights, Penang (8 March 2009).

Pah at Minah's graduation in Sept 2011, UKM

Majlis Konvokesyen Ke-39 UKM, 24-27 Sept 2011

Visit Pah 7Oct2011

Minden Heights, Penang

Pah continued to live at Minden Heights after Mak and Bapak died. She brought in her colleague Siti to live with her. They read Quran as a pastime. They attended Arabic classes together. They went shopping together. They worked together at CAP. Pah, Siti and Kama kept in touch.

Pah's graduation from KITAB in March 2012

Kolej Islam Teknologi Antarabangsa (KITAB), Pulau Pinang

Konvokesyen Ke-4, 26 March 2012

City Bay View Hotel, George Town, Penang

Visit Pah in Penang

Pah holding my 2 books on The Early Malay Doctors 11Jan2013

Pah helped to look after Datuk Penang's house next door 1June2013

She had cataract and couldn't see well. She had a hard time trying to figure out the right key to open the door. She had to feel the key cuts and patterns to find the correct key. I waited and watched her feel the keys and find the correct key. She managed to open the door after some 10 minutes trying.

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Al-Quran
Surah Yasin
https://youtu.be/DIT6haWEbXA
Surah Al Baqara
Surah Ar Rahman


Majlis Tahlil & Kenduri Arwah
- Penjelasan Hukum, Cara & Doa Tahlil and Kenduri Arwah

1. Tahlil is done without the host providing food for guests
2. Neighbours can help to cook and serve food to the guests. Some guests may come from far away. It is only fit that neighbours help out and serve the guests, not the mourning host. Serve only filling food for that day (1 day 1 night), not for many days.
3. Tahlil cannot be done on fixed days; any day will do
4. Hukum melayan tetamu is wajib, but the mourning host must not be forced to serve food
5. The host must not be forced to serve food to guests as the family of the deceased is mourning
6. Tahlil is allowed but the way for doing it must be correct
7. Doa offered by the children of the deceased parent(s) is acceptable
8. There is no order for reading Surah2 Al Quran in tahlil
9. Those who don't want to do tahlil don't have to do it
10. One person alone cannot read all the doa for a deceased person. So, a tahlil is organised so that many people can come together to read doa for the deceased person. 
11. Offering any doa for the deceased is acceptable.

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https://youtu.be/0tJiI6U6zDY
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Music - Turkish
https://youtu.be/r9No8kVSXqQ
https://youtu.be/OWWJlWOjsDs
https://youtu.be/Bq_kHr1wPD4

Music - French
https://youtu.be/5plR-ElP5rg
https://youtu.be/Nzkswl6ee50
https://youtu.be/G-Wy89jH3h8
https://youtu.be/3kDi5Hk-Vmw
https://youtu.be/Sxh9f8qpO2c
https://youtu.be/PeShS2kxDJ0

Music - Spanish
https://youtu.be/j6UDbz3nFiM

Music - Hawaiian
https://youtu.be/m0EIeSyfyp4
https://youtu.be/PfSwFLd5Svs

Music - English
https://youtu.be/dxaSPW1MN5I
https://youtu.be/h95eZWxWayE
https://youtu.be/Tb6AW00DgTI

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