Thursday, August 7, 2014

Erfaan A. Dahlan ke Thailand sebagai Moeballigh Islam dari Gerakan Ahmadijah Lahore

Sumber: (Pandji Poestaka, No. 84, Tahoen VIII, 21 October 1930, hlm. 1340).

"Toean Erfaan A. Dahlan ke Siam. Dari Poerwokerto orang menoelis: Pada tanggal 15 Oct. jl. T. Erfaan A. Dahlan, pembangoen pergerakan Moehamadijjah Indonesia telah berangkat dari Djokja dalam perdjalanannja ke Siam. Tg. 18 Oct. Beliau berangkat dari Tg. Priok. Berangkatnja t. Erfaan A. Dahlan ke Siam itoe ialah sebagai Moeballigh Islam dari Gerakan Ahmadijah Lahore, jang bermaksoed akan mengembangkan ke-Islaman dan persaudaraan internasional di Siam. Beliau ialah poetera Indonesia jang pertama kali jang berangkat mengembangkaan persaudaraan Islam kenegeri Asing. Beliau telah tammat peladjarannja disekolah Ishaat Islam College Lahore, jaïtoe salah satoenja sekolah Ahmadijjah disana dengan peladjaran Theology (Islam, Kristen, Hindoe dan Boedha) dan mengetahoei bahasa Inggeris, ‘Arab, Parsi, Urdu dan Sanskrit. Toean Erfaan telah 6 boelan ada di Hindia oentoek bertemoe dengan sanak-saudaranja.”


Courtasy of Dr. Suryadi Sunuri of Leiden University.

Response to this news from Erfaan Dahlan's son (Dr. Winai Dahlan of Chulalongkorn University):

"My father was sent by Muhammadiyyah to Lahore in 1924. He finished his study around the year of 1930 and went directly to Pattani of Siam (Thailand). When my aunt (Aisah) and her daughter (Mizaroh) visited Bangkok around the year 1961 (or 1962), she told us that it was the first time she met her younger brother (Erfaan). Since 1924, he'd never been back to Indonesia. This was confirmed by my father. I don't understand that news but please learn that Ahmaddiyyah had tried to take advantage of my father and with his intelligence he knew it. Studying with Ahmaddiyyah school in Lahore was not false of Erfaan. He was the great man and behaved as a gift for us all in Thailand and he was not Ahmadis."

Personal correspondence on 17 January 2015

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