ISLAM WAS INTRODUCED IN MAHARLIKA ISLANDS (PHILIPPINES) IN THE EARLY 1310 CENTURY BY AN ARAB ISLAMIC MISSIONARY, FIRST BY TUAN MASHA’IKA AND AFTER COUPLE OF YEARS IT WAS FOLLOWED BY SHEIKH KARIMUL MAKDUM WHO LANDED IN BUANSA AND PROCEEDED TO TAPUL SULU AND TO SIMUNUL ISLAND. HE WAS THEN FOLLOWED BY SHEIKH AMINULLAH MAKDUM ( MAKDUM MEANS MASTER OR TEACHER ). THEY BUILT MASJID WHICH UNTIL NOW THE RUIN CAN BE SEEN IN TUBIG INDANGAN, SIMUNUL ISLAND, AND THEIR GRAVES AS WELL.
IN 1390, RAJAH BAGINDA, WHO CAME FROM MENANGKABAW, SUMATRA INDONESIA ARRIVED AT BUANSA AND CONTINUED THE WORK OF MAKDUM.
IN 1450 SHARIEF ABUBAKAR (KNOWN AS SHARIEFUL HASHIM OR AS ZAIN UL ABIDIN) WHO TRAVELED FROM IRAQ TO INDONESIA AND FROM PALEMBANG TO BRUNEI THEN TO JOLO. HE THEN CONTINUED TO ENLIGHTEN ISLAM UNTIL HE FOUNDED THE SULTANATE OF SULU AND BECAME THE FIRST SULTAN WITH HIS WIFE PRINCESS PARAMISULI AS THE FIRST SULTANA. UNTIL NOW, THERE WERE 35 SULTANS FROM SULTAN ABUBAKAR TO SULTAN MUHAMMAD FUAD ABDULLAH KIRAM-I (THE PRESENT SULTAN OF SULU).
AFTER ISLAM WAS ESTABLISHED IN SULU, THE MUSLIMS MOVED TOWARDS MINDANAO (COTABATO) HEADED BY SHARIEF KABUNGSUWAN. HE LANDED IN MAGUINDANAW IN THE YEAR 1475 AND LATER MARRIED PUTRI TUNINA AND BECAME THE FIRST SULTAN AND SULTANA OF MAGUINDANAW.
IN THE SUCCEEDING YEARS, MORE MUSLIMS CAME TO MAHARLIKA ISLANDS LIKE THE FAMOUS 10 DATUS HEADED BY DATU PUTI. THEY WERE DATU SUMAKWEL, DATU BANGKAYA, DATU DUMALOGDOG, DATU PAIBURONG, DATU PADUHINOG, DATU LUBAY, DATU DUMANGSIL, DATU BALENSULA(VALENZUELA) . DATU PUTI WAS A KNOWN NAVIGATOR AND THEY LANDED IN SIWARAGAN (NOW SAN JOAQUIN ILO-ILO) IN PANAY ISLAND. WHEN THEIR FAMILIES WERE FULLY ESTABLISHED, DATU PUTI, DUMANGSIL, AND BALENSULA SAILED NORTHWARD AND LANDED IN BATANGAS. DATU BALENSULA AND DUMANGSIL ESTABLISHED THEIR COLONIES THERE WHILE DATU PUTI RETURNED TO BORNEO VIA MINDORO AND PALAWAN. HE RELATED HIS ADVENTURES TO THE BORNEANS AND MORE WERE ATTRACTED TO COME TO MAHARLIKA ISLANDS.
MEANWHILE, IN THE YEAR 1494, THIS WAS THE ERA OF KING LUISONG TAGEAN, A MUSLIM KING AND A DECENDANT OF KING MARIKUDO. KING LUISONG WHO MARRIED TO QUEEN LAMAYAN AGATEP BOWAN HAD TWO SONS. THE ELDEST WAS DATU LAPU-LAPU ( RULED MACTAN ISLAND IN VISAYAS ) AND SECOND WAS RAJAH SULAYMAN ( RULED MANILA IN LUZON ).
(PLEASE REFER TO FAMILY TREE OF KING LUISONG TAGEAN)
BY THE TIME THE SPANIARDS LANDED IN LIMASAWA ISLAND ON MARCH 16, 1521 HEADED BY FERDINAND MAGELLAN, MAHARLIKA ISLANDS ( PHILIPPINES) WAS ALREADY A MUSLIM COUNTRY BECAUSE MAJORITY OF ITS POPULATIONS WERE MUSLIMS. IT IS A FACT IN HISTORY THAT WHEN LEGASPI (SUCCESSOR OF MAGELLAN ) CAME TO MAHARLIKA ISLANDS (PHILIPPINES) , MUSLIM KINGDOMS WERE WELL ESTABLISHED IN BATANGAS, PAMPANGGA, MINDORO, PANAY, CATANDUANES, CEBU, BOHOL, SAMAR, MANILA, PALAWAN, ASIDE FROM THE SOLID MINDANAO AND SULU ISLAND.
ON JUNE 3, 1571 THE SPANIARDS LAUNCHED A MAJOR ATTACKED AGAINST THE MUSLIMS IN MANILA . THE MUSLIMS WERE HEADED BY RAJAH SULAYMAN, WHO BRAVELY DEFENDED HIS KINGDOM UNTIL THE LAST DROPPED OF HIS BLOOD IN BANGKUSAY (TONDO’S SEASHORE). AFTER THE DEFEAT OF RAJAH SULAYMAN, THE SPANIARDS LAMBASTED LUZON , KILLING MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN, YOUNG AND OLD ALIKE. THE MUSLIMS ON THE OTHER HAND FOUGHT TO THEIR LAST BREATH WITH BOLOS AND SPEARS AGAINST GUNS AND CANNONS. THE SPANIARDS ESTABLISHED THEIR CAPITAL IN MANILA AND PLANNED TO CONQUER THE VISAYAS WHICH THEY SUCCEDED. MUSLIMS WHO SURVIVED THE BATTLE WERE FORCED TO RECANT THEIR RELIGION AND ACCEPTED CHRISTIANITY. BUT THE BRAVE MUSLIMS CHOOSED THE GRAVE RATHER THAN BLASPHEMED AGAINST ALLAH. THE NATIVES ON THE OTHER HAND WHO WERE WEAK IN FAITH ACCEPTED THE SPANISH RELIGION WHICH IS CHRISTIANITY. THE SPANIARDS DID NOT STOPPED IN LUZON AND VISAYAS, THEY GREEDILY DREAMED OF POSSESSING THE RICH LAND OF MINDANAO, BUT THE TAUSOG, MARANAW, MAGUINDANAW, YAKAN, SAMAL AND THE SANGIL TRIBES CURTAILED THE SPANIARDS AND SO THE FAMOUS MUSLIM-SPANISH WAR BEGAN.
THERE WERE TWO CAUSES OF THE WAR : 1. THE SPANIARDS WANTED TO RULE OVER THE MUSLIMS, BUT THE MUSLIMS LOVE THEIR FREEDOM AND WOULD RATHER DIE THAN TO BECOME A SLAVE. 2. THE SPANIARDS WERE PROPAGATING CHRISTIANITY AT THE POINT OF SWORDS, SO THE MUSLIMS PICK-UP THEIR KRIS AND SPEARS TO DEFEND ISLAM.
SOME DATUS WHO DEFENDED MINDANAO FROM THE FOREIGN INVADERS AND OPPRESSORS ARE AS FOLLOWS :
- SULTAN PANGIRAN – (TAUSOG) WHO DEFENDED ZAMBOANGA AND SULU AREA.
- DATU SIRUGAN AND HIS BROTHER DATU UBAL (MAGUINDANAW) KILLED THE SPANISH INVADER- CAPT. FIGUEROA.
- DATU BUISAN (LANAO ) AND DATU SIRUNGAN – (MAGUINDANAW) LAUNCHED A COUNTER ATTACK TO VISAYAS. THEY RAIDED CEBU, NEGROS AND PANAY AND CAPTURED MANY CHRISTIANS WHO WERE MADE SLAVES BY THE SPANIARDS.
- DATU TAGAL – (COTABATO) KILLED MANY SPANIARD OPPRESSORS.
- SULTAN KUDRAT – (COTABATO) DEFENDED LAMITAN UNTIL HE WAS FORCED TO RETREAT TO ILIGAN DUE TO THE SUPERIOR ARMS OF THE SPANIARDS.
- SULTAN BUNGSU – (ZAMBOANGA) FOUGHT FEROCIOUSLY WHEN HIS WIFE WAS CAPTURED BY THE INVADERS . HE INTENSIFIED HIS ATTACKED AGAINST THE SPANISH INVADERS UNTIL HE FINALLY LIBERATED JOLO IN 1645 AND ORDERED THE DEMOLITION OF THE SPANISH GARRISON WHICH WAS BUILT IN ZAMBOANGA.
- SULTAN JAMALUDDIN AL ALAM AND SULTAN BADRUDDIN- III CONTINUED TO DEFEND MINDANAO UNTIL THE ARRIVAL OF THE BRITISH. THE SPANIARDS WERE FORCED TO SIGNED A PEACE TREATY AND PAID TAXES.
- DATU UDTOG – (COTABATO) KILLED GOVERNOR EMILLIO TERRERO.
- DATU ALI – (LANAO) KILLED GOVERNOR VALERIANO WEYLER OF MISAMIS.
- THE BRAVE MUSLIM TRIBES KILLED GENERAL RAMON BLANCO DURING THE LAST ATTEMPT OF THE SPANIARDS TO CONQUER MINDANAO.
THE SPANISH RULE ENDED IN 1898 AFTER 333 YEARS OF OCCUPATION WHEN THEY SOLD THE ENTIRE MAHARLIKA ISLANDS TO THE AMERICANS. ACCORDING TO SOME HISTORIANS THEY SOLD IT FOR 20,000,000 US$, BUT SOME SAYS FOR 90,000,000 US$ ON DECEMBER 10, 1898 AFTER 3 MONTHS OF THE EXCHANGE OF RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY. THE FULL AGREEMENT CAN BE SEEN IN THE TREATY OF PARIS.
IN MAHARLIKA ISLANDS THE MUSLIMS WERE GOVERNED BY ISLAMIC LAWS FOR CENTURIES. IN EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY, AN ISLAMIC LAW WAS INTRODUCED BY TWO MUSLIM SULTANATES IN THE SOUTH. THEY WERE THE LAW OF THE SULTANATE OF SULU DIWAN TAUSOG (1878) AND THE LUWARAN MAGUINDANAW OF THE SULTANATE OF MAGUINDANAW.
Maharlika Islands(Hacienda Filipina) Composed of 1,049,212,962 square nautical miles(7,169 Islands)
King Luisong Tagean
Queen Lamayan Agatep Bowan
Eldest Son
Rajah Lapu-Lapu Tagean
Princes Aramis Alak Betajar
Sultan Alak Betajar
Queen Majah Pateh ul Halim
Princes Aramis Betajar Tagean
2nd Eldest
Rajah Sulayman Tagean
1st Wife: Princes Tarhata Kahar
2nd Wife: Princes Luzviminda Hassan Bolkia
3rd Wife: Princes Hasan Ul Rijal
Sultan Jamalul Kahar
Princes Tarhata
Kahar Ul Rijal
Princes Gajah Ul Rijal
Sultan Saiful Ul Rijal
Princes Hasan Ul Rijal Bolkia
Princes Sarangani Hasan Bolkia
Prince Lacan Ul Rijal Alimuddin Tagean
Wife: Princes Rowena Ma. Elizabeth De Overbek
Prince Julian Maclaeod Tagean Tallano
1st Wife: Aminah Benitez Jamalul Alam
2nd Wife: Princes Tarhata Kahal (daughter of Sulltan Jamalul Kiram
Don Estaban Benitez Tallano (1875-1937)
(Who transported 617,500 metric tons of gold 12.5 kg / bar in 1939)–
Wife: Dona Dolorez
Roxas Y Madrigal
Juan Roxas Tallano
Wife: Maria Ignacia Rocha Agustin (1890-1915)
Benito Agustin Tallano
Wife: Maria Christina Camacho Morden (1913-1985)
Julian Morden Tallano
(Judicial administrator of Tala Estate)
NOTE : WHEN KING LUISONG TAGEAN DIED, HE LEFT 720,000
METRIC TONS OF GOLD.
THE TWO FAMOUS KNOWN TONS OF GOLD IN THE PHILIPPINES WERE :
- 1. FAMOUS MAHARLIKA (PHILIPPINES) GOLD ( FROM KING LUISONG TAGEAN )
- 2. ASIA’S LOOTED GOLD ( FROM JAPANESE EMPEROR HIROHITO )
Marcos returned some of the gold in the Philippines and hid them on the mountains all over the archipelago. Then he invented the infamous ” Yamashita treasure ” to confused the whole world. The source of all the bank accounts/assets/ in the world?…….>>>>>TANGEN