Jose Rizal’s “Mi Ultimo Adios” was translated by Supremo Andres Bonifacio in Tagalog, titled it “Pahimakas.”

On the afternoon of December 29, 1896, a day before the execution, Jose Rizal was visited by his mother, Teodora Alonzo, his sisters Lucia, Josefa, Trinidád, Maria, Narcisa and two of his nephews. When they were about to leave, Rizal told Trinidád in English that there was something in the small alcohol stove (cocinilla). The stove was given to Narcisa by the guard when they were about to board their carriage. Reaching home, Rizal’s family found a folded paper in the stove. On it was written an unsigned, untitled and undated poem with 14 five-line stanzas. The Rizal’s family reproduced copies of the poem and sent them to Rizal's friends in the country and abroad. In 1897, Mariano Ponce in Hong Kong had the poem printed with the title "Mi Ultimo Pensamiento." Fr. Mariano Dacanay, who received a copy of the poem while a prisoner in Bilibid, Prison had it published in the first issue of La Independenciaon Sept. 25, 1898 with the title “Ultimo Adios.”

After the execution of Rizal, Josephine Bracken with Rizal’s brother Paciano and sister Trinidad came at past one o'clock in the afternoon of December 30, 1896 at San Francisco de Malabon (now General Trias). Andres Bonifacio, the Katipunan Supremo, received the Rizals himself at the house of Mrs. Estefania Potente where he was staying. The Supremo was requested by the Rizals to translate Rizal’s poem to Tagalog. Bonifacio asked if he could keep for some time a copy of Rizal’s poem so that he could translate it into Tagalog with the assistance of Diego Mojica, President of the Popular Council Mapagtiis and local Cavite poet and writer in Tagalog. This is how the Spanish poem “Mi Ultimo Adios” of Jose Rizal was translated into Tagalog by Supremo Andres Bonifacio:

PAHIMAKAS

Pinipintuho kong Bayan ay paalam,
Lupang iniirog ng sikat ng araw,
mutyang mahalaga sa dagat Silangan,
kaluwalhatiang sa ami’y pumanaw.

Masayang sa iyo’y aking idudulot
ang lanta kong buhay na lubhang malungkot;
maging maringal man at labis ang alindog
sa kagalingan mo ay akin ding handog.

Sa pakikidigma at pamimiyapis
ang alay ng iba’y ang buhay na kipkip,
walang agam-agam, maluwag sa dibdib,
matamis sa puso at di ikahahapis.

Saan man mautas ay di kailangan,
cipres o laurel, lirio ma’y patungan
pakikipaghamok, at ang bibitayan,
yaon ay gayon din kung hiling ng Bayan.

Ako’y mamamatay, ngayong namamalas
na sa Silanganan ay namamanaag
yaong maligayang araw na sisikat
sa likod ng luksang nagtabing na ulap.

Ang kulay na pula kung kinakailangan
na maitina sa iyong liwayway,
dugo ko’y isaboy at siyang ikikinang
ng kislap ng iyong maningning na ilaw.

Ang aking adhika sapul magkaisip
noong kasalukuyang bata pang maliit,
ay ang tanghaling ka at minsang masilip
sa dagat Silangan hiyas na marikit.

Natuyo ang luhang sa mata’y nunukal,
taas na ang noo’t walang kapootan,
walang bakas kunot ng kapighatian
gabahid man dungis niyong kahihiyan.

Sa kabuhayan ko ang laging gunita
maningas na aking ninanasa-nasa
ay guminhawa ka ang hiyas ng diwa
paghingang papanaw ngayong biglang-bigla.

Ikaw’y guminhawa laking kagandahang
akoy malugmok, at ikaw ay matanghal,
hininga’y malagot, mabuhay ka lamang
bangkay ko’y maisilong sa iyong Kalangitan.

Kung sa libingan ko’y tumubong mamalas
sa malagong damo mahinhing bulaklak,
sa mga labi mo’y mangyayaring ilapat,
sa kaluluwa ko halik ay igawad.

At sa aking noo nawa’y iparamdam,
sa lamig ng lupa ng aking libingan,
ang init ng iyong paghingang dalisay
at simoy ng iyong paggiliw na tunay.

Bayaang ang buwan sa aki’y ititig
ang liwanag niyang lamlam at tahimik,
liwayway bayaang sa aki’y ihatid
magalaw na sinag at hanging hagibis.

Kung sakasakaling bumabang humantong
sa krus ko’y dumapo kahit isang ibon,
doon ay bayaan humuning hinahon
at dalitin niya payapang panahon.

Bayaan ang ningas ng sikat ng araw
ula’y pasingawin noong kainitan,
magbalik sa langit ng buong dalisay
kalakip ng aking pagdaing na hiyaw.

Bayaang sino man sa katotong giliw
tangisang maagang sa buhay pagkitil;
kung tungkol sa akin ay may manalangin
idalangin, Bayan, yaring pagkahimbing.

Idalanging lahat yaong nangamatay,
Nangag-tiis hirap na walang kapantay;
mga ina naming walang kapalaran
na inihihibik ay kapighatian.

Ang mga balo’t pinapangulila,
ang mga bilanggong nagsisipagdusa;
dalanginin namang kanilang makita
ang kalayaan mong ikagiginhawa.

At kung ang madilim na gabing mapanglaw
ay lumaganap na doon sa libinga’t
tanging mga patay ang nangaglalamay,
huwag bagabagin ang katahimikan.

Ang kanyang hiwaga’y huwag gambalain;
kaipala’y marinig doon ang taginting,
tunog ng gitara’t salterio’y magsaliw,
ako, Bayan yao’t kita’y aawitan.

Kung ang libingan ko’y limot na ng lahat
at wala ng kurus at batong mabakas,
bayaang linangin ng taong masipag,
lupa’y asarolin at kahuya’y ikalat.

Ang mga buto ko ay bago matunaw,
mauwi sa wala at kusang maparam,
alabok na iyong latag ay bayaang
siya ang babalang doo’y makipisan.

Kung magkagayon ma’y, alintanahin
na ako sa limot iyong ihabilin,
pagka’t himpapawid at ang panganorin,
mga lansangan mo’y aking lilibutin.

Matining na tunog ako sa dinig mo,
ilaw, mga kulay, masamyong pabango,
ang ugong at awit, paghibik ko sa iyo,
pag-asang dalisay ng pananalig ko.

Bayang iniirog, sakit niyaring hirap,
Katagalugan kong pinakaliliyag,
dinggin mo ang aking pagpapahimakas;
diya’y iiwan ko sa iyo ang lahat.

Ako’y patutungo sa walang busabos,
walang umiinis at berdugong hayop;
pananalig doo’y di nakasasalot,
si Bathala lamang doo’y haring lubos.

Paalam, magulang at mga kapatid
kapilas ng aking kaluluwa’t dibdib
mga kaibigan, bata pang maliit,
sa aking tahanan di na masisilip.

Pag-papasalamat at napahinga rin,
paalam estranherang kasuyo ko’t aliw,
paalam sa inyo, mga ginigiliw;
mamatay ay siyang pagkakagupiling!

- ka tony

Imus Assembly, the 31 of December, 1896 - day before the execution of Jose Rizal

Day before the execution of Jose Rizal Magdiwang and Magdalo leaders met to discuss how to settle differences in revolutionary struggle and also a plot to snatch Rizal on the eve of his execution scheduled by the Spanish colonial authorities, also exploration of unified leadership fails because of dispute over which leadership should prevail; Supremo Bonifacio asks Aguinaldo, secretary of the meeting to record a motion forwarded re-framing of a constitution, despite the fact that the Katipunan Government already had one, but Aguinaldo asks that the matter be deferred at the moment.

After the execution of Jose Rizal at Bagumbayan, Josephine Bracken with Paciano & Trinidad Rizal (her brother & sister-in-law, the latter a Katipunera & a Mason), according to Santiago Alvarez’s Memoirs, said that the Rizals came at past one o'clock in the afternoon of December 30, 1896 at San Francisco de Malabon (now General Trias). Andres Bonifacio, the Katipunan supremo, received the Rizals himself at the house of Mrs. Estefania Potente where he was staying. Was requested by the Rizals to translate Rizal's poem ("Mi Ultimo Adios" originally untitled, unsigned and undated) to Tagalog. Supremo Bonifacio asked if he could keep for some time a copy of Rizal’s poem so that he could translate it into Tagalog with the assistance of Diego Mojica, President of the Popular Council Mapagtiis & local Cavite poet & writer in Tagalog. This Tagalog translation by the Supremo Bonifacio is now known as "Pahimakas."

The following day a meeting was held between the Magdalo and Magdiwang parties of the Katipunan at Imus, Cavite, December 31, to determine the leadership of Cavite in order to end the rivalry between the two factions. The issue of whether the current Katipunan Government should be replaced by a revolutionary government was brought up by the Magdalo, the Magdiwang favored the old Katipunan Government, though both factions agreed that Cavite should not be divided. Supremo Bonifacio and the Magdiwang contended that the Katipunan already functioned like a full-fledged and served as their revolutionary government since it had its own constitution, laws and provincial and municipal governments. Magdiwang is major Katipunan force in Cavite, with 3,400 guns compared to Magdalo's 2000 and had decidedly bigger territories covered.

In the same meeting, a Magdalo engineer and general named Edilberto Evangelista made a draft of a constitution. Aguinaldo himself publicly recommended Evangelista to head the revolutionary government that would be established in place of the Katipunan Government, according to Aquinaldo, Evangelista is "the most educated" in the organization and that Evangelista could "command the respect of the Spaniards." Evangelista presented his draft constitution for the proposed government to Supremo Bonifacio but this had earlier been rejected as too similar and finding it plagiarized from the Spanish "Maura Law" - the same law that laid the basic foundations for Spanish Municipal Government in the Philippines. It is named after its author, Antonio Maura y Montaner the Spanish Minister of Colonies at the time. The Maura Law established tribunales, municipales and juntas provinciales and these foundations laid by the Maura Law were later adopted, revised and strictly followed by the American and Filipino governments that succeeded Spanish rule in the country. Evangelista's constitution contradicts the objectives of the Katipunan Government; Liberty, Equality, Fraternity...

1) To advocate complete independence from Spain, to be achieved through armed struggle.
2) To take back lands, gold, personal savings, personal properties confiscated by the church and Spanish Cortes from the poor masses. They also saw it as their personal responsibility to help the poor, the oppressed and to teach them good manners, hygiene and morality.
3) To dismiss the elite society and social classes, instead create an equal social status.

The Imus Assembly presided by Supremo Andres Bonifacio, ended without a resolution of the conflict and issues. Upon the event of restructuring, according to Santiago Alvarez and Artemio Ricarte, the assembly agreed to appoint Supremo Bonifacio as the head of a legislative committee and was given the authority by both factions to appoint members he considers worthy in setting up a new government. The Supremo requested for the minutes of the meeting to establish this given authority, but these were never provided.
- ka tony
the 29th of December, 2013