Arab Sabah Malay

Tawau Sabah, Malay and Arab parties a bit more because they play a major role in the development of the eminence of preaching Islam in Tawau and political rights and the struggle of the Malays, especially in Tawau, Sabah . Based on the history of Arab state. This group was involved. During the voyage because of the mastery of the knowledge they astrolabes, geogarafi position and has easy navigation to the destination they are on course. most of them from the land of Hadramaut. Yaman south. Arab society plays an important role as the missionaries and traders in the state to spread the teachings of Islam is through the process penghijirahan. In fact, the history of the arrival of Arab society is closely linked with the religion of Islam. apparently nobody can deny his kebanaran toeri arrival of Islam from Arab lands to the development of teaching Islam in Asia included. sabah .. . See: Book 'Tawau The Making of a Tropical Community. Ken Goodlet. Opus Publication: 2009

What is unique about the Malay community is Arabic though their ancestors came from Arabia, but they are all descendants of the Malay community here, the Arabs are no longer speaking in Arabic, rather they only know the Malay dialect spoken in Tawau. This is due to their association for hundreds of years by the Malay people and their ancestors had been previously married local women and adopted Malay customs and way of life of the Malays. That only live in common with their ancestors is that they look like little faces look identical as the Arab nations. There are also some who use Arabic names such as Habib and Syed or Sharifah.kerena those who use the name of Syed / Sharifah is a descendant of Al Iman Ahamad Almuhajir ..

Placement of the Malay community in the Arab Tawau
Sabah Malay community, many Arabs live in the old villages like Kampung Pasir Putih Lama Tidung together with the Malay community, the village at Batu 2, Jalan Apas Tawau River near the downstream and also in the village of Merotai Tawau. As the Malay community are among the Arab population of the earliest in Tawau, Arab Malay community has a lot of private land in the vicinity bergeran Tawau. See: Book 'Borneo Under The Sun'. Nicholas Chung. Natural History Publication: 2005

History of the Malay Community in Arab Tawau
The arrival of the Arabs to Tawau during the reign of former British Borneo Chartered Company. was. play an important role as the missionaries and traders in the state to spread the teachings of Islam is through the process penghijirahan. in fact, the history of the arrival of Arab society is closely linked with the religion of Islam. it can not deny the coming of Islam toeri kebanarannya on Arab land with the development of Islamic teachings ..

In addition, there are some Arabs that a reference point to study the Islamic religion because of their religious knowledge and wisdom, the high and subsequently became the leader of the Malay people in Tawau. For example, Sheikh Habib bin Al Habib Abdulrahamn Alaydrus who became head of the Islamic Malay (native chief) in Tawau in the years 1912 to 1925. Then next, Habib Hussein Bin Abu Bakar Al-Habib was never a leader Aydrus people in Tawau around the 1930s and late 1940s before he was killed was killed by Japanese soldiers with Stephen Tan, Chinese community leaders in Tawau at that time. When the post-independence era, the Habib Habib Abdulrahman Bin Sheh Alaydrus (BT2 Jln Apas Tawau) Habib Habib Umar Bin Hassan Al-Hinduan (Religious Teacher) in Kampung Pasir Putih Lama also contributed a lot in the development of Islamic preaching in Tawau. In addition other names among the Malay community leaders of Arab descent are somewhat known in Tawau is Habib Abdul Rahman Alaydrus (Son of Sheikh Habib), Habib Idrus, and Habib Muhammad Haji Awadan ..

Tawau
Tawau is a very unique place because the only place in the occupied Sabah Malay community. Tawau Malay community is made up of many ethnic Malays who have long lived together and practiced a way of life and culture of the same Malay Culture. Although different origin but in Tawau, they exist in a community called the Malay community. They only use one language as the language of the Malay language and interaction, Tawau.

Generally, the Malay community Tawau (native community) is a combination of different groups of people in the Malay archipelago Tawau either listed by the results of inter-marriages between themselves and the results shared way of life. practices of local cultural traditions and anchored by a sacred religion of Islam as the basis for the main guide in life and are united by a beautiful language of the Malay language that is understood and spoken together. Community Malay archipelago located in Tawau are Tidung Malay, Arabic Malay, Banjar Malay, Malay mysticism, Java, Malay, Malay Bulungan, Malay and other Kokos. It also includes a small number of people from other descendants, such as Iban, Bajau and Muslims who choose to live together with the other Malay. This community has existed long before the British colonial era. They have opened the placement of the estuary-river estuary with life as a fishing and growing rice hills. They live together, marry among themselves and each other to create a peaceful society in Tawau before the arrival of the British and the Chinese people. See: Book 'Borneo Under the Sun', post Nicholas Chung, Natural History Publications Publication: 2005