Journey To The East

THE JOURNEY TO THE BORNEO, MINDANAO AND SULU

Another story I gathered, there were six of them and two of them were women that had sailed from Johor, Peninsular Malaysia including the father or the older person.
In the past Old Johor includes Malacca and Singapore Island. The older person could be Shariff Ali, the third Sultan of Brunei and his first wife. The other lady could be the lost child of Shariff Ali and the granddaughter of Sultan Iskandar Zulkarnain of Johor/Malacca who was given the gold ring.

Shariff Ali The Third Sultan Of Brunei

SHARIFF ALI THE 3RD SULTAN OF BRUNEI

However the history of Brunei cited Shariff Ali, a merchant and son in law of the Brunei Sultan being elevated as the 3rd Sultan of the Brunei Sultanate. Could he be the Shariff Ali Zainal Abedin that had landed in Johor as they had the same name in Shariff Ali and Shariff Ali married the daughter of the Sultan of Brunei, who could also be his second wife. The tomb of Shariff Ali could be found at Kota Batu in Negara Brunei DS.

Shariff Hassan landed in Brunei but could be another part of Brunei as Brunei’s territory had spanned BORNEO ISLAND as well as the PHILIPPINES from Tg Datu in Sarawak to Luzon in the Philippines and Kalimantan Indonesia.
The tomb in North Borneo, now Sabah could only be that of Shariff Hassan as Shariff Makdum tomb is in Simunul Tawi Tawi, an island that is closest to North Borneo.

Sharif Ali Zainal Abedin

SHARIFF ALI ZAINAL ABEDIN

The vintas of Shariff Ali Zainal Abedin landed in Johor or stayed back in Johor and married the daughter of Sultan Iskandar Zulkarnain, the Sultan Of Malacca, who was an Indian by origin in the nama of Parameswara, a merchant from Sumatra before he converted to Islam and took up the name of Iskandar Zulkarnain, by the name of Putri Jusul Asikien.

Their children were;
Shariff Bonggo,
Shariff Alawi,
Shariff Mangenta
Shariff Kabunan, while the last child disappeared but Sultan Zulkarnain of Johor/Malacca had given a gold ring studded with 7 carats of diamond to the mid-wife for the lost child (daughter).

What could be the reason for the loss of the last child, other than the will of God? She could have been given away for adoption as she would not be carrying the name and title of Shariff. Only men carried the title of Shariff. Why did Sultan Zulkarnain then gave the gold ring studded with 7 diamonds to the mid-wife for the child if she had vanished?

Some stories claimed that she was put in a box and drifted like the story of Prophet Moses in the Bible and Koran but was taken by someone, who was a respected or important person at that time, could be a price or a scholar.

The history of Meriam Ratu Hijau in Medan, Sumatera had caught my imagination. Could she be the lost daughter of Shariff Ali Zainal Abedin because history tells us that her influence spread very far including the Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatera.