NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY

Course: His 101 (Bangladesh Culture and Heritage)

Section- 3 (Spring 2020) Group 2

Final Assignment

Haji Shariatullah as an Islamic Reformer

Prepared For-

Prof. Sharif Uddin Ahmed (SFN)

Senior Lecturer

Department of History and Philosophy, SBE

Prepared By-

Sohel Ahmed 1612437030

Serial No 9

Submission Date 3rd June 2020

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 INTRODUCTION

The Bengali Islamist reformer of the Indian subcontinent in British India, Haji Shariatullah (1781–

1840). He is eminent for the Faraizi improvement 's foundation. After him is called Shariatpur

District.

EARLY LIFE

All through the British standard in South Asia, Haji Shariatullah was an obvious Islamic analyst

and reformer in the Indian subcontinent. He was imagined in 1781 into the calling of Abdul Jalil

Talukdar. His family (Talukdars) was not rich and classed as an Indian levels of leadership

structure lower budgetary class. Talukdars had no coaching and had cultivating as the basic

wellspring of pay and generational occupation. No buddy reviewed content shows the particular

date or time of first experience with the world and mother's name, anyway its place of birth was

perceived as Shamali, Madaripur District of Faridpur in Bengal Province. He went to Arabia at an

early age of 18 to coordinate Hajj after his underlying guidance in his home. From his educator,

Maulana Basharat, he analyzed Arabic and Persian. Every single through hello there remain in

Arabia, Muhammad container Abdul Wahab's Wahabism was in close touch with him. He

attempted to purify Islam, which was hostile to Hindu power, when he returned to Bengal. He was

the individual who in inconvenient events gave Muslims their chance. He had Mohsin-ud-racket

called his kid.

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 LIFE IN ARABIA

Between 1799 to 1818, Haji Shariatullah lived there and got his exacting direction. In Calcutta,

Haji Shariatullah met Maulana Basharat Ali, a Quranic scientist, who permitted him the

opportunity to partake in his Quranic works out. Maulana hugy affected a stunning course and

breathed life into him to think about both Arabic and Persian, which would enable him later to

build a full data on the Qur'an. In these lingos it took him two years to understand. Haji Shariatullah

imparted his strong wish to join Maulana, also. Following the solicitation of Haji Shariatullah,

Maulana allowed Haji in 1799 to be a bit of the journey to emigrate to Saudi Arabia. He initially

stayed in Mecca until 1818 and made him significantly increasingly acquainted with Islam and

vivacious about improving his understanding and perception of Islam. He has put his vitality in

Saudi Arabia in three particular stages. The ensuing stage was the greatest and made sure about a

period of 14 years, during which he 'was driven by Tahir al-Sumbal Makki, a Hanafi lawful guide.'

In the third point, Mr. Sarkozy referenced agree to continue to ask about the subtleties of Islam

and the theory of his respected instructor Tahir Sumbal at Cairo University, Egypt, as a group with

Mr. Sumbal. In the wake of strengthening himself through Islamic learning, Haji tended to in his

country. Here, he saw out. The condition was particularly upsetting to him as he unequivocally

acknowledged that the present territory of Muslims at the time was "very un-Islamic." Haji

Shariatullah required the Muslims to think cautiously and expectedly auf the exercises of Quran.

He gave his later life to spreading effectively the Faraizi Movement message. As of recently, Haji

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Shariatullah 's conviction was extraordinarily superimposed on those of the Wahhabis.

BELIEFS

He acknowledged that in India the spurned condition of the Muslims provoked the Dar-UI-Harb

country. He said it was hard to offer here Friday request and Eid. He moreover felt that the Muslim

social order had changed its route away from Islam. He required them back to the correct

impression of Faraizi 's Islamic commitments, he thought. The name of his improvement was

Faraizi Movement thusly. The Faraizi Movement bolstered the Jihad thought against the non-

Muslims who bartered the real Isalm values.

FAILURES & ACHIEVEMENTS

The complete Haji Shariatullah blurred in 1818. The immaterial exercises he didn't pull in swarms.

He came back to Makkah at this phase to approach his educators for direction. His instructor, Taher

Sombal, carried him to the Qadiriyeh Sufi Tariqah and took him back to Bangladesh with overall

blessings in 1820. The new Sufi measurement worked like a magnet by calling to hold the image

in the qalb (heart). In the current year's lifetime in the neighboring regions of Dhaka, Barisal and

Comilla his change, known as Faraizi, was wide-running and well known in all cases. He

underlined that he trusted Tawhid (Unity of Allah) and Muhammad's prophethood with incredible

trust and went cautiously (help to) with no adulterating celestial creatures and goddesses.

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Moreover, it phenomenally focused on crafted by the exacting commitment of Islam, including

continuous supplications (blended green) ordinarily, the diminishing in dejection portion in severe

obligation (zakat) and the fasting in the Ramadan mouth (saum) and accomplishment of Hajj

(compulsory) and the creation in such manner was likewise alluded to as Fari. He likewise focused

on Muslims and the honorability of solidarity, fraternity and reproved perpetual isolation of

humankind which had subverted Muslim society. This emphatically denounced the various un-

Islamic, stately and polytheistic gradual extra customs that had been brought into Muslim society

by debasing non-Muslim neighborhood practices.

THE FARAIZI MOVEMENT

Faraizi improvement is the demanding change progression of the nineteenth century started by

Shariatullah haji. The word Faraizi begins from the enunciation "farz" which recommends

important duties compelled by Allah. Along these lines, the Faraizi are the ones planned to satisfy

the demanding obligations. Haji Shariatullah, the support and instigator of the improvement for

Faraizi, everything considered had tended to the term in a substitute manner, and that proposed

that the Quran and the Prophet's sunnah acclimatized all the demanding responsibilities appointed.

Shaikh Tahir Sombal, an authority at Hanafi School, got the hang of demanding gauges and made

his outing to Makkah for a long time. Back home he moved a Bengali Muslims improvement to

follow the real social affairs of Islam. The Muslims of Bengal had gotten a handle on, for

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chronicled purposes, different indigenous practices, customs and organizations far away from the

musings of Islam. Most Muslims in Bengal have not gotten Islam's fundamentals. The Bengal

Muslims Shariatullah promised to follow the genuine heading of Islam. He focused on the five

focal rules of Islam, referenced that unadulterated monotheism be understood absolutely and

carefully clung to, and pardoned all deviations from the essential activities as Shirk and Bid'at.

Different organizations, for example, Chuttee, Puttee, Chilla, the motorcade of Shabgasht, Fatihah,

Milad and Urs, were restricted. They were moreover blocked to wed, to wed or to death.

Consecrated love was additionally announced evade, demonstrating wrong love for the Pir, and

raising the Taziah during the Muharram. He focused on congruity, social correspondence and

Muslims' general participation. The British principle in Bengal Haji Shariatullah thought about the

demanding nearness of the Moslems to hurt. As indicated by Hannafi law, he said the Muslims

held the advantage to lead congregational petitions without a veritable Muslim caliph or master

official in Bengal. In a for the most part non-Muslim state, similar to Bengal, the Congregation of

Friday was reprehensible for the Faraizis. Moreover, it began to spread in the locale of Dhaka,

Faridpur, Bakerganj, Mymensingh, Tippera (Comilla), Kittagong, and Noakhali with basic pace

(the nation remained separated during British Indian occasions, henceforth these zones were all

around ensured about by Bengal 's past bound together state), and in Assam 's area. Regardless, in

those Provinces where Muslim workers had been debased appallingly under the despot authority

of the Hindu Zamindars, turned European indigo plantters, the Faraizi Movement got its most

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observable imperativeness. At the other hand, different Muslims, with help from the Hindu

Zamindar, didn't adhere to the Faraizi rule. The landowners of Dhaka as such guaranteed the

release from Ramnagar or Nayabari, where he assembled his deliberate presentation base, of Haji

Shipullah by the police in 1831. This improvement develop through unfaltering commitment with

Hindu proprietors and European indian plants into a fiscal issue which under Shariatullah 's youth

Dudu Miyan and his relatives changed into the greater part of the Faraizi headway. Regardless of

reliably lease the proprietors gathered different abwabs and these abwabs were unlawful in law 's

sees. Different abwabs had demanding character. This activity was bound by Shariatullah.

Undoubtedly, even in the Eid-ul Azha period, the proprietors had obliged a denial on butchering

of dairy animals. The Farizis prompted their campesinos not to consent to a boycott thusly. All

these hot cases have accumulated pushed and upsetting ties between the Faraizies and the

proprietors, in every practical sense every one of them Hindus. This was another remarkable

standard clarification, which incited the Fairizi improvement in the long run to these two

demanding social occasions denying one another. The offended land owners started the UK's

deliberate introduction drive, proposing the defiant point of view of the Faraizes. In 1837

Shariatullah was blamed for attempting to build up his own space, as Titu Mir. They have

additionally brought different genuine techniques against the Faraizes in which European indigo

maker have sufficiently arranged. More than once Shariatullah was under police master in Faridpur

for purportedly causing agrarian hardship. The pioneer of the Faraizi improvement was acclaimed

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on the going in 1840, in Haji Shariatullah just adolescent Muhsinuddin Ahmad fake name Dudu

Miyan. The Faraizi progression took over agrarian attitude under his position. The abused

completely open had been machined and aced by him against merciless land owners. The Hindu

landowners and indigo maker attempted, in trembling retribution, to keep Dudu Miyan by setting

up bogus gatherings of verification against him. Regardless, with normal specialists he had turned

so notable that the courts conflictingly found an affirmation against Dudu in those couple of gave

cases. Dudu Miyan 's essential triumphs got the eye of the individuals, and in their regard his

prominence ended up being ceaselessly lifted up. The Faraizi improvement was additionally given

a critical motivation in these occasions, and its social event was fuelled by not just various Muslims

who had been cold up to this point. Introduction of Dudu. Dudu Miyan 's early triumphs got the

enthusiasm of the individuals, and his notoriety made in their noteworthy respect. This occasion

in like way gave the Faraizi improvement an additional fundamental impulse and pulled in various

cold Muslims, yet what's more Hindus and indigenous Christians who attempted to watch the Dudu

Miyan against their oppressive rulers. Mediorials Palong rather thana was named as the Shariépur

District in the memory of Haji Shariatullah in the Dhaka Division of focal Bangladesh.

RECEPTION

In its day, the Faraizi Movement was especially popular and stays standard. In the locales of

Dhaka, Faridpur, Madaripur, Barisal, Mymensingh and Comilla, the Faraizi advancement started

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to spread at fantastic pace. On the other hand, a couple of Muslims reacted emphatically against

him, especially Dhaka landowners and that created a scene in the area, Noyabari. In Noyabari,

Dhaka Dis Town, a couple of Muslims on the other hand, and explicitly Dhaka's occupants, re-

acted compellingly against him.

DEATH AND LEGACY

His barren kin, Muhsinudin Ahmad, most routinely insinuated as Dudu Miyan, had been moved

to the Faraizis after Haji Shariatullah 's going in 1840. The zone in the Dhaka division of

Bangladesh was renamed Shariatpur District to pay tribute to Hadschi Shariatullah, Palong, rather

than to Madaripur. On 10 March 1993, Bangladesh gave a postage stamp regarding him. His name

is Araal Khan River on the Mawa Bhanga interstate, Haji Shariatullah Bridge, which rises 450

meters (1480 ft) above sea level. At 59 years of age in 1840, the structure of his home in his

neighborhood city of Shamail encased Haji Shariatullah. His grave was cleared by an ascent from

his home, and his grave was kept up by the Asian Society of Pakistan. It remains, particularly in

the class of Islamic pioneers on the India subcontinent, one of the most convincing and clear

Muslim reformers to date. He is remarkable in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan with his Faraizi

advancement and his association and associations. In the normal understanding material and in

Islamic works, Faraizi motivations behind concern can be found.

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