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the meaning of his prayer movements.   Mahācai, and the youngest a son   Sheikh Sa`id. After he had heard the   the prime minister. After he had heard
 The king told them that the man was   named Mahācai Pailang.   proclamation from the men who were   the words of the minister of state, the
 no other than the man he had seen   Then, some time later, king Phaya   beating the gong, he came outside   prime minister entered the palace and
 in his dream. After that, the palace   tu Nakpa fell ill, the skin of his whole   and stood at the gate of his village.   appeared before the king, respectfully
 officials followed him and they converted   body was cracked, and although   Then the men who were beating the   reporting all the minister of state had
 to Islam. The King was granted the   several astrologers and doctors   gong passed near the gate where   told him. The king spoke: “If this is
 title Sultan Muhammad Shah and he   treated him he did not recover. Then   Sheikh Sa`id was standing. Sheikh   true, send immediately for the man
 commanded all his subjects to embrace   the king gave orders to the prime   Sa`id said: “What are you beating the   from Pasai.” So sheikh Sa`id was sent
 Islam. Sayid Abdul Aziz himself later   minister to have the gong beaten in all   gong for?” The man in charge of the   for. He came and appeared before the
 became the king’s teacher. From then   the districts of the land, proclaiming   gong said: “Don’t you know that the   king. The king spoke to Sheikh Sa`id:
 on, Islam spread massively in Malacca. 8  that whoever undertook to treat the   king of this land is very ill and that the   “Is it true that you are able to cure my
            skin of his whole body is cracked?
 king and cured him would be taken as               illness?” The sheikh said respectfully:
 Hikayat Patani  his son-in-law. Then the king suffered   Several astrologers and doctors   “If my Lord will become a Muslim I
            have tried to cure him, but he has not
 In addition to the Hikayat Raja-Raja   such acute pains that he could not sit   recovered; far from recovering, his   shall cure Your Majesty’s illness.”
 Pasai and Sejarah Melayu, the process   still. The prime minister immediately   illness has even grown more grave.   The king spoke: “If I recover from this
                                                    illness I shall do whatever you say.”
 of the Islamization of the archipelago is   took his leave and went to sit in the   Therefore the king has ordered the
 also recorded in the  Hikayat Patani (The   audience hall, ordering the minister   gong to be beaten, and whoever   After Sheikh Sa`id had made this
 Story of Patani). Here are some excerpts:  of state to have the gong beaten in   undertakes to cure the king, if he   agreement with the king he sat down
 accordance with the king’s orders.   recovers from his illness, the king will   to treat him. After seven days the king
 After the king had reigned for several   The minister of state immediately took   was able to go out and give audience
 years he had three children, the eldest   his leave and ordered his people to   take him as his son-in-law.” Sheikh   to the minsters and officers. Then
 a son named Kerub Phīcai Painā, the   beat the gong and announce the royal   Sa`id said: “Go back and tell the king   Sheikh Sa`id respectfully took his
 middle one a daughter named Tunku   proclamation. The gongs were then   with due respect that I do not wish to   leave of the king and returned to his
            become his son-in-law, but if the king
 8.  In another section of the Sejarah Melayu also   beaten in all the districts of the land,   is willing to become a Muslim, I shall   home. A few days later, the king had
 tells of the arrival of a distinguished ‘alim from
 Arabia who resided in Malacca to teach about   for seven days, but no-one undertook   undertake to cure his illness.”  recovered completely. But the king
 Islam, along with the coming of two ‘ulama from   to do what the king had requested.   went back upon his agreement with
 Java by their journey to Pasai and Mecca. These   When the man in charge of the   Sheikh Sa`id.
 ‘ulama would become prominent saints, viz. Sunan   Then the people who were beating   gong had heard this he immediately
 Giri and Sunan Bonang. On this see C.C. Brown,   the gong passed by the village of   returned and respectfully reported to   After two years had elapsed the king
 “Sejarah Melayu’ or ‘Malay Annals’: a translation
 of Raffles MS 18”, Journal of the Malayan Branch   the people from Patani, who were   the minister of state all that Sheikh   fell ill again, suffering from the same
 of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 25, no. 2 &   sitting in the religious centre of that   Sa`id had said. The minister of state   disease as before. Again the king sent
 3, 1952, pp. 41-3; Ricklefs, A History of Modern
 Indonesia…, p. 19; Jones, “Ten Conversion Myths   Kampung Pasai. There was among   immediately went to report the words   for Sheikh Sa`id. After the sheikh had
 from Indonesia” …, p. 136-7.   them a man from Pasai called   of the man in charge of the gong to   arrived the king spoke: “Please treat



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