Al - Fatihah

"Dari tanah kita semua datang dan akhirnya kepada tanah jua kita dikembalikan"

Bagi pihak pemain-pemain dan ahli BMMJ, ucapan takziah kepada Awang Haji Hussin bin Ali & Keluarga, Dato Paduka Seri Major General Haji Aminuddin Ihsan & Keluarga, Awang Abdullah Soefri & Keluarga, Awang Haji Nawawi DS Hj Razali serta semua ahli keluarga diatas kembalinya kerahmatullah Yang Berhormat, Pehin Orang Kaya Saiful Mulok Dato Seri Paduka Awang Haji Abidin bin Orang Kaya Periwara Abd Rashid pada hari Isnin 15 Dzulhijjah 1431 bersamaan 22nd November 2010.

I had the honour and privilege to work with Yang Berhormat Pehin during my time as Administrative Officer at the Belait District office in 2002. Actually, my first task was to brief him PDB's plan of action and status report during the great flood of 3rd January 2002 in KB - it was only my second day on the job!

The whole of Lorong Tiga Seria was flooded and the picture shows Yang Berhormat Pehin (hidden with white shirt) who at that time the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs having just arrived from BSB being met by me and other officers of the PDB. The then District Officer Dato Hj Harun was on leave while ADO Hj Abdoh was somewhere else.

A keen golfer himself, I played golf together with Yang Berhormat Pehin & Datin on a few occasions at the Par 3 Garden Course Jerudong circa 1987 to 1992. Sometimes Abdullah Soefri also joined us. He never fails to teach me a few tips around the green and advice on life in general.

More importanly, Yang Berhormat Pehin strongly supported a charity golf tournament that I chaired and organised by Panaga Golf Club in raising money for the Afghanistan relief fund also in 2002. We raised $10,000 - a huge success. Fittingly, he even joined the golf tournament where I played in the same flight with him & Brian Straub (Former BSP TD)

Yang Berhormat Pehin's kindness, understanding & vision made him a popular and respected figure during his long period in the government. Myself, like many people in Brunei will deeply miss him.

Semoga roh Yang Berhormat Pehin akan ditempatkan bersama orang-orang yang beriman dan beramal Salleh - Al Fatihah.