Wednesday, November 29, 2006
LIFE - Mind Of A Mankind - Chapter Four
THE POSSESSION
Say: I seek refuge
With the Lord
And Cherisher of Mankind,
The King (or Ruler)
Of Mankind, -
From the mischief
Of the Whisperer
(Of Evil), who withdraws
(After his whisper), -
(The same) who whispers
Into the hearts of Mankind, -
Among Jinns
And among Men.
Quoted from the Holy Qur'an
Chapter 114, Nas or Mankind, verse 1 to verse 6
I have written about my own mother and now I will tell you more about my own experience in dealing with the spirits from the unseen realm. You must be wondering why I write so much about these spirits. I need you to know all these for you to judge for yourself whether all these bad or good spirits existed because we believed in them due to our religious belief and folklore superstitions or it is just a stage play for the spirits to manipulate our mind. It has to do with our mind in a sense that we are frighten of ghosts, evil spirits and the Devil but we are unafraid of holy spirits and angels of God. Is it true that they would only exist when we believed in them and they would not exist if we do not believed in them? I will say it is true after I had encountered them in Singapore and Indonesia.
In retrospect, when I think about it, I believed it was all about overcoming my own fears of the unknown. And from that inner circle prison, I stepped out, look at it from the outside and found out that I was a prisoner of my own illusion. Then I saw and met those who were outside my cell. They were actually trying to pull me out and breathe the fresh air outside for more life and to cherish life. Then I would wake up and sing halleluja or thank God for giving me life rather than sing-sing in hell forever on planet earth.
In this chapter I am writing about the life of mine in the past when I was still a believer in good and evil spirits from the unseen world, besides the Devils, Angels and Allah. I was still bounded by my faith in Islamic belief in "Djinns" from the unseen world. I did not question about their existence and their true identity. So I hope you would understand why I behaved such manner in the past.
The story is based upon my own experience and encounter. There is no embellishment to make into a fantastic story. I am writing the occurrences with sincerity and truthfulness. The names may be different to protect the privacy and identities of the people involved. In may strike your mind to wonder why I always encountered these spirits in my life. In the past I was wondering the same thing too but now, I have no more questions about them. They know I am not afraid of them and they know why.
In 1986, I was working in a stock broking firm in Singapore as a registration clerk. There I met Noorasmah. I was working there for about a month then one day while I was waiting for the lifts at the lobby, she happened to be there at the right time at the right place. I decided to go lunched with her and I asked her permission whether I could join her. She was blushed and then she shyly agreed to my request. We went lunched together and our relationship kicked off from there. From that day onward, we went lunched together everyday then after I knew her better I dated her out. Our relationship flowered to courtship and both of us fell in love with each other. I got to know more about her parents and sisters. Then I became closed to all of them. Within a few months later, Noorasmah and I began to plan for our future life together and marriage came to our mind. We were both twenty-three years old and later we tied the knot the following year.
Noorasmah was suffering from Asthmatic. Her appearance looked quite frailed due to frequent asthmatic attacks but she always look beautiful to me. I fell in love with her not just because of her beauty but she also has good characters, kind and loving heart. While we were courting, I found out about her little secret and she concealed that from me until I persisted her to tell me.
Prior to her employment in a stock broking firm which I later became an employee too, she was working as a pharmacist assistant in a polyclinic at Pago Road in Singapore. She had an argument with one of her Malay male colleague in his forties. She had a bad quarrelled with this man for holding her hand to show that there were some messy pill powders on their desk after packing them into the sachets. What I am going to write now, it seemed very derogating in regards to Malays' mentality. It sounds so ridiculous yet it is true. It is shameful and sinful within the context of Islamic faith, yet it is useful for most of them, especially for those that believed in the arts of witchcraft or voodoo. They utilised it for one's vindictive desires to be fulfilled.
After a few weeks after her resignation from the clinic, one day while Noorasmah was travelling on board a bus in the evening, she felt something momentarily and distinctively like a finger tip pressure sensation sort of penetrating on her forehead, slightly above her eye browse. That particular night her eyesight became blurred and she always felt sleepy around 7 p.m. which was not wont to her. Normally, she would sleep around 10 p.m. or 11 p.m. So after that day, most of the time she would go to bed early. It was not due to fatigue but she always felt weak. She did not sleep well most of the time as though it was like half asleep and half awake. It was as though there was something that was whispering to her within her heart. This condition went on for few weeks.
Then one evening, she felt her eyes were painful like there were numerous pinpricked sensations. She felt uncomfortable and painful when she closed her eyes. She could not sleep and inside her head she felt it was like burning hot. She could not get up and walked too. She felt frightened with her condition. Then she screamed and shouted out for her mother. Her mother went into her bedroom to see what was the matter with her daughter. Noorasmah told her mother about her condition. Her mother touched Noorasmah's forehead and body, it felt hot. Thinking that it was high fever, she decided to send her to a private clinic.
Noorasmah's mother and sisters had to carry her because she could not stand-up and walk. They went to the private clinic but the quirked thing was, upon reaching the clinic's premises, Noorasmah could slightly walked and her body temperatures subsided. The doctor examined her and there was no fever. He informed Noorasmah's mother and sisters that there was nothing wrong with Noorasmah. She was well and healthy. They went home then it began again. They already heard the doctor's statement when they met him at the private clinic earlier, so they decided to see a 'Bomoh' or spiritual healer that night about Noorasmah's strange illness.
Noorasmah is an intelligent person. She has 'A' Level education and she had studied at one of the prestigious school in Singapore. She actually disbelieved in witchcraft until that day when she had experienced it herself. This was her confession to me and she went to see another "Bomoh" at Kampung Bukit Timah for spiritual healing treatment because she was not really recuperated totally from her strange illness though her felt better after some spiritual healing treatment from the previous spiritual healer.
This female spiritual healer told her that a Malay man was the culprit but she did not disclose the identity of that Malay man. Nobody can accused anybody when it comes to witchcraft because we do not know whether the spiritual healer was genuine or faking and whether all this witchcraft is true or false.
I had accompanied her several times for that spiritual healing sessions. I watched and observed the spiritual healer. She was in a state of trance and there was a male assistance to help with the spiritual healing procedures. It was almost similar to my own mother's method of spiritual healing. Noorasmah was given water with sliced small pieces of limes and flowers in it for bathing. A bottle filled with water mantra over by the healer with Qur'anic holy verses for Noorasmah to consume it. She was given a few raw chicken eggs for her to stroke gently all over her body and then the raw eggs would have to be returned to the healer on the subsequent visits. Noorasmah told me that once when she had returned the raw chicken eggs to the healer, when it were broken by the healer, there were needles inside it. She told me that she had actually witnessed it with her own eyes. There were no tricks and the healer did not change the eggs. My own mother did not use chicken raw eggs for her spiritual healing treatment for her visitors, except that Busu loved to eat raw chicken eggs for his own consumption whenever he turned up. I trusted Noorasmah's word because she is not that kind of person who likes to lie. I did not witness it for myself but I just listened to her story. I just let it be because I did not wish to indulge in the supernatural power of spiritual healing anymore. I had put all that memories of my own mother's spiritual healing abilities at the back of my mind. Actually, Noorasmah was ashamed and afraid to let me know about her little secret. She thought that I had never came across about spiritual healing before and furthermore she thought that I would probably disbelieve about it too. She went for that spiritual healing treatments for a few months until she felt better but not totally healed. She still felt tired and the whispering within her heart was still active on a number of occassions when she tried to go to sleep. All that time I kept quiet about my mother's past life as a spiritual healer from her until one late evening when Busu came to the rescue.
It was a month before our marriage was to take place on the 7th March 1987. Noorasmah was staying with her youngest sister at Tampines. She had stayed there because her parents were separated after many years of misunderstandings. They were getting divorced.
The apartment block was quiet and empty with many available flats for sales. Tampines area was not very popular at that time. Rubiah's flat was the only apartment that was occupied on that floor level. We were outside Rubiah's flat chatting at the common corridor about many things and observing the scenery in front of us one late evening. Right next to her flat was an empty apartment then suddenly Rubiah mentioned about the her neighbour's vacant flat. The three of us were talking something about why nobody wanted to stay in her block then she jokingly remarked, "You know I have stayed here for so long and this flat next to mine has been vacant for so long since the day I shifted here. Maybe there is a "Pontianak" (female vampire) living inside it."
When Noorasmah and I heard that statement, I knew Noorasmah was frightened and I felt goose-pimples behind my neck. Noorasmah scolded her sister for commenting like that. Later that night, I went back home as usual after spending time with Noorasmah and Rubiah.
The next day when I met Noorasmah again at her sister's place, she told me she could not sleep all night because she was disturbed and tormented by a large Black Shroud phantom. Each time when she closed her eyes to sleep, she saw a large black shroud was spinning above her body and it was trying to cover her up. The thing could transform itself into may hands too and it kept coming at her. It tried to cover her up numerous times and at one staged it succeeded. She tried to chase away the thing by uttering Qur'anic holy verses but it was not afraid by her prayers. It tormented her until dawn prayer session, then it disappeared and the disturbances stopped completely. After that she could sleep. I told her probably it was only a bad nightmare while she was sleeping. She disagreed with me because she said she was awake and she it with her own eyes. She told Rubiah about it but she just listened without saying anything. That day she was afraid to stay at her sister's flat so I decided to bring her home to stay there with my family for a few days until she felt better. As for Rubiah, she was used to being alone with her two young daughters. Her husband was going through treatment again at the drug rehabilitation centre and he had been there for quite awhile. So I guessed she had no choice and I believed she was not so frightened like Noorasmah. I know she was a strong woman.
That evening around 9 p.m. at my parents' flat, Noorasmah was folding her clothing in a bedroom. I was present with her and we were sitting on the floor talking. I was watching her folding up the clothes neatly, suddenly she remained silent and she behaved strangely. She was staring at me. Her face feature expression was different. Her head tilted slightly downward with the front hair covering part of her face and her eyes were staring straight at me fiercely as though she was angry. Then she grinned widely at me with her teeth fully bared like an evil demon, making deep ferocious and frightening animal like sounds. Then it suddenly attacked forward and growled at me loudly with her hands brought up clawed like. I fell backward. I was so shocked and frightened too with her unexpected personality changed. My parents heard the noise and came into the room quickly. They saw it and it turned to face them, showing them its ferocious and evil characteristics expression. I was still in a shocked and I felt frightful of whatever it was that took over control the body of Noorasmah.
My father and mother shouted "Hey!" at it loudly and sternly. All of us were uttering Qur'anic holy verses quietly but nothing seemed to help the situation. They called out Noorasmah's name but it responded fiercely trying to frighten them and stopped them from coming nearer. My mother caught hold of its hands and tried to make it stopped from struggling. Noorasmah's personality came back on for a few seconds, crying for help but it disappeared and then changed to that animal like characteristics again. It tried to free itself from my mother's hands gripped hold and I had recovered from my frightful shocked to catch hold of its hands too. We felt its powerful strength unlike Noorasmah's characteristic. It was very strong and toughed. My mother was shouting at it to get out and at the same time calling for Noorasmah. Noorasmah's personality came back on again crying and pleading loudly for to us to help her from the evil thing but then the evil entity came back on again. Noorasmah could not control her body and we noticed too that she was not unconscious. She was aware of being possessed by an evil spirit but she could do anything to help herself. That was the first time I saw someone being possessed yet fully conscious about it. I had never encountered anything like it before in my life.
My mother released her gripped on the evil entity's hands and told me to do the same thing. It sat down, it grinned impishly and growled at all of us. Noorasmah's personality came back on again for a few seconds and disappeared again, replaced by that evil thing again. We just looked at it thinking what to do next. At this point by eldest brother, Charles and my eldest sister, Wati, just got back home. They heard came in to the bedroom to investigate the commotion. Charles was a Christian and he saw it. Then he looked at it and commanded, "In the name of Jesus, I command you to leave this body." Nothing happened and it growled just as usual. Wati was afraid to come near it. Then all of them left the room leaving me alone with the evil spirit. Noorasmah's personality came back on again crying for me to help her and vanished again. Then strangely, the light inside the room went off and was totally shocked. Without thinking I asked the evil entity in English whether it caused the light to go off. I was surprised when it nodded to my question with its fierce mien. I felt the goose bumps all over my body. In my mind, I wondered to myself, "How come it could understand English?" I went to the light switch, pressed it on and off then the light came back on again. I guessed maybe the light switch was faulty.
My parents came into the room again and my mother brought with her the brown coconut leave stems sweeper. My father was nearby and I was sitting next to my mother facing the evil entity. My mother was not unconscious, and then out of a sudden she turned aggressive and grabbed Noorasmah's hands. It was Busu. My father and I knew it was Busu.
The evil entity cried out loudly trying to get away from Busu and he grabbed the sweeper angrily wanting to hit the evil thing with it but we stopped him from doing so. He grabbed hold of Noorasmah's hands again and it growled loudly at Busu, trying to get away from Busu. We could see Busu was angrily gesturing at it with his own ferocious behaviours too.
There were no wrestling match and all this happened when both spirit entities were sitting down. Busu would grab the evil spirit's hands and it would try to unlock Busu's gripped. Then at one stage after we stopped Busu from hitting the evil spirit with the sweeper, Busu pulled the evil spirit's hair, used his hands to cover roughly onto the evil spirit face and then scorned at it with his own evil expression. We saw that the evil spirit was totally confused when Busu did that. We could see that the evil thing was afraid of Busu. Then suddenly there was no evil spirit and it seemed to have vanished. It lasted about five to ten minutes, then Noorasmah's personality came back on crying loudly and sobbing. And this time permanently.
Busu turned to face my father, informed him with his angry face expression and hands gesturing that the evil spirit was still hiding inside Noorasmah's body. He grabbed hold of Noorasmah's hands, she cried loudly, frightened by Busu's actions. We understood that Busu was still trying to make sure that the evil spirit had left Noorasmah alone. It did not appear anymore and Busu then turned to my father, gestured to him a few things then left my mother's body. My mother was unconscious. Noorasmah had stopped crying while I tried to comfort her and there was no possession anymore.
Somehow another my father and I were relieved that Busu had turned up. There was no other way to chase away the evil entity out from Noorasmah's physical body. The scenario that I had witnessed was something I had never seen before except on that particular day. Two different spirits had possessed two human bodies and they were sort of fighting with each other. That was amazing, just like as though good versus evil, something like the angels and devils that were mentioned in most holy scriptures in the world.
My mother regained her consciousness again and sat up from her reposed position. She told us that the evil spirit was also trying to possess her when she was in a trance and Busu was there to prevent it from happening. She said that the evil spirit that had possessed Noorasmah was like the 'Monkey God" of the Taoism faith. It could transform itself to a large Black Shroud with many hands. It was very evil. We asked her why was it that this spirit possessed Noorasmah. My mother told us that Noorasmah could have offended it and she too did not know what was the main reason it came to Noorasmah.
My eldest sister, Wati, stated that this 'Monkey God' had possessed her colleague at one occasion. She went to the Chinese Temple to offer prayers to it to seek forgiveness. Her colleague became well after that. My parents refused that kind of suggestion because as Muslims, we were not supposed to offer any prayers to idols or to any other deities that Non-Muslims believed.
I have to let you know that when Noorasmah came to my parent's home that day, we did not even mention anything to them about Noorasmah's experience and encounter with a Black Shroud phantom at Tampines. Noorasmah told them about it after the possession was over.
The next day, my father told us that he had dreamt of a big black being like a monkey had grabbed him from behind him. He had to go to the window and threw that thing out. I think that was only a nightmare but was it. That day onward, Noorasmah stayed with my parents under my mother's care until a week prior our wedding day. There was no more possession and she only went home to Tampines once in awhile to visit her sister and her nieces.
Say: I seek refuge
With the Lord
And Cherisher of Mankind,
The King (or Ruler)
Of Mankind, -
From the mischief
Of the Whisperer
(Of Evil), who withdraws
(After his whisper), -
(The same) who whispers
Into the hearts of Mankind, -
Among Jinns
And among Men.
Quoted from the Holy Qur'an
Chapter 114, Nas or Mankind, verse 1 to verse 6
I have written about my own mother and now I will tell you more about my own experience in dealing with the spirits from the unseen realm. You must be wondering why I write so much about these spirits. I need you to know all these for you to judge for yourself whether all these bad or good spirits existed because we believed in them due to our religious belief and folklore superstitions or it is just a stage play for the spirits to manipulate our mind. It has to do with our mind in a sense that we are frighten of ghosts, evil spirits and the Devil but we are unafraid of holy spirits and angels of God. Is it true that they would only exist when we believed in them and they would not exist if we do not believed in them? I will say it is true after I had encountered them in Singapore and Indonesia.
In retrospect, when I think about it, I believed it was all about overcoming my own fears of the unknown. And from that inner circle prison, I stepped out, look at it from the outside and found out that I was a prisoner of my own illusion. Then I saw and met those who were outside my cell. They were actually trying to pull me out and breathe the fresh air outside for more life and to cherish life. Then I would wake up and sing halleluja or thank God for giving me life rather than sing-sing in hell forever on planet earth.
In this chapter I am writing about the life of mine in the past when I was still a believer in good and evil spirits from the unseen world, besides the Devils, Angels and Allah. I was still bounded by my faith in Islamic belief in "Djinns" from the unseen world. I did not question about their existence and their true identity. So I hope you would understand why I behaved such manner in the past.
The story is based upon my own experience and encounter. There is no embellishment to make into a fantastic story. I am writing the occurrences with sincerity and truthfulness. The names may be different to protect the privacy and identities of the people involved. In may strike your mind to wonder why I always encountered these spirits in my life. In the past I was wondering the same thing too but now, I have no more questions about them. They know I am not afraid of them and they know why.
In 1986, I was working in a stock broking firm in Singapore as a registration clerk. There I met Noorasmah. I was working there for about a month then one day while I was waiting for the lifts at the lobby, she happened to be there at the right time at the right place. I decided to go lunched with her and I asked her permission whether I could join her. She was blushed and then she shyly agreed to my request. We went lunched together and our relationship kicked off from there. From that day onward, we went lunched together everyday then after I knew her better I dated her out. Our relationship flowered to courtship and both of us fell in love with each other. I got to know more about her parents and sisters. Then I became closed to all of them. Within a few months later, Noorasmah and I began to plan for our future life together and marriage came to our mind. We were both twenty-three years old and later we tied the knot the following year.
Noorasmah was suffering from Asthmatic. Her appearance looked quite frailed due to frequent asthmatic attacks but she always look beautiful to me. I fell in love with her not just because of her beauty but she also has good characters, kind and loving heart. While we were courting, I found out about her little secret and she concealed that from me until I persisted her to tell me.
Prior to her employment in a stock broking firm which I later became an employee too, she was working as a pharmacist assistant in a polyclinic at Pago Road in Singapore. She had an argument with one of her Malay male colleague in his forties. She had a bad quarrelled with this man for holding her hand to show that there were some messy pill powders on their desk after packing them into the sachets. What I am going to write now, it seemed very derogating in regards to Malays' mentality. It sounds so ridiculous yet it is true. It is shameful and sinful within the context of Islamic faith, yet it is useful for most of them, especially for those that believed in the arts of witchcraft or voodoo. They utilised it for one's vindictive desires to be fulfilled.
After a few weeks after her resignation from the clinic, one day while Noorasmah was travelling on board a bus in the evening, she felt something momentarily and distinctively like a finger tip pressure sensation sort of penetrating on her forehead, slightly above her eye browse. That particular night her eyesight became blurred and she always felt sleepy around 7 p.m. which was not wont to her. Normally, she would sleep around 10 p.m. or 11 p.m. So after that day, most of the time she would go to bed early. It was not due to fatigue but she always felt weak. She did not sleep well most of the time as though it was like half asleep and half awake. It was as though there was something that was whispering to her within her heart. This condition went on for few weeks.
Then one evening, she felt her eyes were painful like there were numerous pinpricked sensations. She felt uncomfortable and painful when she closed her eyes. She could not sleep and inside her head she felt it was like burning hot. She could not get up and walked too. She felt frightened with her condition. Then she screamed and shouted out for her mother. Her mother went into her bedroom to see what was the matter with her daughter. Noorasmah told her mother about her condition. Her mother touched Noorasmah's forehead and body, it felt hot. Thinking that it was high fever, she decided to send her to a private clinic.
Noorasmah's mother and sisters had to carry her because she could not stand-up and walk. They went to the private clinic but the quirked thing was, upon reaching the clinic's premises, Noorasmah could slightly walked and her body temperatures subsided. The doctor examined her and there was no fever. He informed Noorasmah's mother and sisters that there was nothing wrong with Noorasmah. She was well and healthy. They went home then it began again. They already heard the doctor's statement when they met him at the private clinic earlier, so they decided to see a 'Bomoh' or spiritual healer that night about Noorasmah's strange illness.
Noorasmah is an intelligent person. She has 'A' Level education and she had studied at one of the prestigious school in Singapore. She actually disbelieved in witchcraft until that day when she had experienced it herself. This was her confession to me and she went to see another "Bomoh" at Kampung Bukit Timah for spiritual healing treatment because she was not really recuperated totally from her strange illness though her felt better after some spiritual healing treatment from the previous spiritual healer.
This female spiritual healer told her that a Malay man was the culprit but she did not disclose the identity of that Malay man. Nobody can accused anybody when it comes to witchcraft because we do not know whether the spiritual healer was genuine or faking and whether all this witchcraft is true or false.
I had accompanied her several times for that spiritual healing sessions. I watched and observed the spiritual healer. She was in a state of trance and there was a male assistance to help with the spiritual healing procedures. It was almost similar to my own mother's method of spiritual healing. Noorasmah was given water with sliced small pieces of limes and flowers in it for bathing. A bottle filled with water mantra over by the healer with Qur'anic holy verses for Noorasmah to consume it. She was given a few raw chicken eggs for her to stroke gently all over her body and then the raw eggs would have to be returned to the healer on the subsequent visits. Noorasmah told me that once when she had returned the raw chicken eggs to the healer, when it were broken by the healer, there were needles inside it. She told me that she had actually witnessed it with her own eyes. There were no tricks and the healer did not change the eggs. My own mother did not use chicken raw eggs for her spiritual healing treatment for her visitors, except that Busu loved to eat raw chicken eggs for his own consumption whenever he turned up. I trusted Noorasmah's word because she is not that kind of person who likes to lie. I did not witness it for myself but I just listened to her story. I just let it be because I did not wish to indulge in the supernatural power of spiritual healing anymore. I had put all that memories of my own mother's spiritual healing abilities at the back of my mind. Actually, Noorasmah was ashamed and afraid to let me know about her little secret. She thought that I had never came across about spiritual healing before and furthermore she thought that I would probably disbelieve about it too. She went for that spiritual healing treatments for a few months until she felt better but not totally healed. She still felt tired and the whispering within her heart was still active on a number of occassions when she tried to go to sleep. All that time I kept quiet about my mother's past life as a spiritual healer from her until one late evening when Busu came to the rescue.
It was a month before our marriage was to take place on the 7th March 1987. Noorasmah was staying with her youngest sister at Tampines. She had stayed there because her parents were separated after many years of misunderstandings. They were getting divorced.
The apartment block was quiet and empty with many available flats for sales. Tampines area was not very popular at that time. Rubiah's flat was the only apartment that was occupied on that floor level. We were outside Rubiah's flat chatting at the common corridor about many things and observing the scenery in front of us one late evening. Right next to her flat was an empty apartment then suddenly Rubiah mentioned about the her neighbour's vacant flat. The three of us were talking something about why nobody wanted to stay in her block then she jokingly remarked, "You know I have stayed here for so long and this flat next to mine has been vacant for so long since the day I shifted here. Maybe there is a "Pontianak" (female vampire) living inside it."
When Noorasmah and I heard that statement, I knew Noorasmah was frightened and I felt goose-pimples behind my neck. Noorasmah scolded her sister for commenting like that. Later that night, I went back home as usual after spending time with Noorasmah and Rubiah.
The next day when I met Noorasmah again at her sister's place, she told me she could not sleep all night because she was disturbed and tormented by a large Black Shroud phantom. Each time when she closed her eyes to sleep, she saw a large black shroud was spinning above her body and it was trying to cover her up. The thing could transform itself into may hands too and it kept coming at her. It tried to cover her up numerous times and at one staged it succeeded. She tried to chase away the thing by uttering Qur'anic holy verses but it was not afraid by her prayers. It tormented her until dawn prayer session, then it disappeared and the disturbances stopped completely. After that she could sleep. I told her probably it was only a bad nightmare while she was sleeping. She disagreed with me because she said she was awake and she it with her own eyes. She told Rubiah about it but she just listened without saying anything. That day she was afraid to stay at her sister's flat so I decided to bring her home to stay there with my family for a few days until she felt better. As for Rubiah, she was used to being alone with her two young daughters. Her husband was going through treatment again at the drug rehabilitation centre and he had been there for quite awhile. So I guessed she had no choice and I believed she was not so frightened like Noorasmah. I know she was a strong woman.
That evening around 9 p.m. at my parents' flat, Noorasmah was folding her clothing in a bedroom. I was present with her and we were sitting on the floor talking. I was watching her folding up the clothes neatly, suddenly she remained silent and she behaved strangely. She was staring at me. Her face feature expression was different. Her head tilted slightly downward with the front hair covering part of her face and her eyes were staring straight at me fiercely as though she was angry. Then she grinned widely at me with her teeth fully bared like an evil demon, making deep ferocious and frightening animal like sounds. Then it suddenly attacked forward and growled at me loudly with her hands brought up clawed like. I fell backward. I was so shocked and frightened too with her unexpected personality changed. My parents heard the noise and came into the room quickly. They saw it and it turned to face them, showing them its ferocious and evil characteristics expression. I was still in a shocked and I felt frightful of whatever it was that took over control the body of Noorasmah.
My father and mother shouted "Hey!" at it loudly and sternly. All of us were uttering Qur'anic holy verses quietly but nothing seemed to help the situation. They called out Noorasmah's name but it responded fiercely trying to frighten them and stopped them from coming nearer. My mother caught hold of its hands and tried to make it stopped from struggling. Noorasmah's personality came back on for a few seconds, crying for help but it disappeared and then changed to that animal like characteristics again. It tried to free itself from my mother's hands gripped hold and I had recovered from my frightful shocked to catch hold of its hands too. We felt its powerful strength unlike Noorasmah's characteristic. It was very strong and toughed. My mother was shouting at it to get out and at the same time calling for Noorasmah. Noorasmah's personality came back on again crying and pleading loudly for to us to help her from the evil thing but then the evil entity came back on again. Noorasmah could not control her body and we noticed too that she was not unconscious. She was aware of being possessed by an evil spirit but she could do anything to help herself. That was the first time I saw someone being possessed yet fully conscious about it. I had never encountered anything like it before in my life.
My mother released her gripped on the evil entity's hands and told me to do the same thing. It sat down, it grinned impishly and growled at all of us. Noorasmah's personality came back on again for a few seconds and disappeared again, replaced by that evil thing again. We just looked at it thinking what to do next. At this point by eldest brother, Charles and my eldest sister, Wati, just got back home. They heard came in to the bedroom to investigate the commotion. Charles was a Christian and he saw it. Then he looked at it and commanded, "In the name of Jesus, I command you to leave this body." Nothing happened and it growled just as usual. Wati was afraid to come near it. Then all of them left the room leaving me alone with the evil spirit. Noorasmah's personality came back on again crying for me to help her and vanished again. Then strangely, the light inside the room went off and was totally shocked. Without thinking I asked the evil entity in English whether it caused the light to go off. I was surprised when it nodded to my question with its fierce mien. I felt the goose bumps all over my body. In my mind, I wondered to myself, "How come it could understand English?" I went to the light switch, pressed it on and off then the light came back on again. I guessed maybe the light switch was faulty.
My parents came into the room again and my mother brought with her the brown coconut leave stems sweeper. My father was nearby and I was sitting next to my mother facing the evil entity. My mother was not unconscious, and then out of a sudden she turned aggressive and grabbed Noorasmah's hands. It was Busu. My father and I knew it was Busu.
The evil entity cried out loudly trying to get away from Busu and he grabbed the sweeper angrily wanting to hit the evil thing with it but we stopped him from doing so. He grabbed hold of Noorasmah's hands again and it growled loudly at Busu, trying to get away from Busu. We could see Busu was angrily gesturing at it with his own ferocious behaviours too.
There were no wrestling match and all this happened when both spirit entities were sitting down. Busu would grab the evil spirit's hands and it would try to unlock Busu's gripped. Then at one stage after we stopped Busu from hitting the evil spirit with the sweeper, Busu pulled the evil spirit's hair, used his hands to cover roughly onto the evil spirit face and then scorned at it with his own evil expression. We saw that the evil spirit was totally confused when Busu did that. We could see that the evil thing was afraid of Busu. Then suddenly there was no evil spirit and it seemed to have vanished. It lasted about five to ten minutes, then Noorasmah's personality came back on crying loudly and sobbing. And this time permanently.
Busu turned to face my father, informed him with his angry face expression and hands gesturing that the evil spirit was still hiding inside Noorasmah's body. He grabbed hold of Noorasmah's hands, she cried loudly, frightened by Busu's actions. We understood that Busu was still trying to make sure that the evil spirit had left Noorasmah alone. It did not appear anymore and Busu then turned to my father, gestured to him a few things then left my mother's body. My mother was unconscious. Noorasmah had stopped crying while I tried to comfort her and there was no possession anymore.
Somehow another my father and I were relieved that Busu had turned up. There was no other way to chase away the evil entity out from Noorasmah's physical body. The scenario that I had witnessed was something I had never seen before except on that particular day. Two different spirits had possessed two human bodies and they were sort of fighting with each other. That was amazing, just like as though good versus evil, something like the angels and devils that were mentioned in most holy scriptures in the world.
My mother regained her consciousness again and sat up from her reposed position. She told us that the evil spirit was also trying to possess her when she was in a trance and Busu was there to prevent it from happening. She said that the evil spirit that had possessed Noorasmah was like the 'Monkey God" of the Taoism faith. It could transform itself to a large Black Shroud with many hands. It was very evil. We asked her why was it that this spirit possessed Noorasmah. My mother told us that Noorasmah could have offended it and she too did not know what was the main reason it came to Noorasmah.
My eldest sister, Wati, stated that this 'Monkey God' had possessed her colleague at one occasion. She went to the Chinese Temple to offer prayers to it to seek forgiveness. Her colleague became well after that. My parents refused that kind of suggestion because as Muslims, we were not supposed to offer any prayers to idols or to any other deities that Non-Muslims believed.
I have to let you know that when Noorasmah came to my parent's home that day, we did not even mention anything to them about Noorasmah's experience and encounter with a Black Shroud phantom at Tampines. Noorasmah told them about it after the possession was over.
The next day, my father told us that he had dreamt of a big black being like a monkey had grabbed him from behind him. He had to go to the window and threw that thing out. I think that was only a nightmare but was it. That day onward, Noorasmah stayed with my parents under my mother's care until a week prior our wedding day. There was no more possession and she only went home to Tampines once in awhile to visit her sister and her nieces.
# posted by Zulkifli @ 11:10 PM 
