Here is why Sultan stayed in Kampong Glam...
Kong Bang is a musical instrument for celebrations. Koran,which is the meaning of bible,is placed on bookshelves,which is called rahar. Among the 3 traditional cities (kampong glam, China town,little India), which place is the most important?Of course, you would have guessed it. Kampong Glam. It is important as Sultan Huessin Shah lived there. Let's read on...
The first setters of Kampong Glam are, Arab, Bugis, Bonkinese and Jawanese.
Mango leaves are usually found hagging outside shops that are owned by Indian. This is to drive away evil spirits and bring good luck to the shop, to make business prosper.
The Holy land is Mekka and sarong kebaya are seen wearing on Singapore airline girls.
When you enter a temple, you must be clean and must wear proper clothes that covers your knees. Men and women are not allowed to pray together.
One day, Raffles arrived in Singapore and saw that Singapore was a good piece of land. Hence, he asked Sultan to let him buy the piece of land and the conditions are: Have a big piece of land, and he also requested for money. Loads of money. And with that, Sultan moved to Kampong Glam...
For the malays, many people will be confused or mixed up by these three words: Islam, malays and muslims. In fact, Malays is refering to the race,while Muslims are people around and their religion is Islam.
Sultan then wanted to build a mosque and a mosque is a place of worship. But before the mosque had finished building... Sultan passed away. So the first person to settle in the mosque is Sultan's second son.
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