Muhiuddin Khan

Muhiuddin Khan ( bn, মুহিউদ্দিন খান; 1935–2016) was an Islamic scholar from Bangladesh and editor of ''Monthly Madina''. Khan was also a Quranic commentator, journalist, poet, writer and translator. He translated for the first time tafseer Maariful Quran into Bengali.

Early life and education

Khan was born on 19 April 1935 at the home of his maternal grandfather in the village of Chhaychir in Pakundia, Kishoreganj District, Bengal Province. His mother's name was Mosammat Rabeya Khatun. Khan belonged to a Bengali Muslim family originally from Ansarnagar in Gafargaon, Mymensingh District. His father, Hakim Ansaruddin Khan, was an educationist and '' moulvi''.

Khan passed ''Aalim'' in 1951 and ''Fazil'' in 1953 from the madrasa. In 1953, he was admitted to Govt. Madrasah-e-Alia, Dhaka where he studied under Abdur Rahman Kashgari and other schoalrs. In 1955, Khan received the ''Kamil'' degree in Hadith and in 1956 he got a ''Kamil'' degree in fiqh from the madrasa.

Career

Khan edited ''Weekly Naya Jamana'' in 1960, ''Monthly Dishari'' from 1963 to 1970. From 1961 until his death, he served as the editor of ''Monthly Madina'' and ''Aaj'' (Today). Khan was appointed a member of the central executive committee of Saudi-based international organization Rabataye Aalame Islami in 1988. He has been honored as a well-known writer in West Bengal, Assam, Tripura. He was the president of Mutamar al-Alam Al-Islami Bangladesh unit, the founder chairman of the Jatiya Seerat Committee of Bangladesh, the chairman of the Nastik-Murtad Protirud Andolon Islami Murcha, and the leader of Jamiate Ulamae Islam.

Khan co-operated and assisted the Bengali freedom fighters during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. In December 1976, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh held a conference at the Patuakhali Jame Mosque in which Azizul Haque was made the party's president and Khan as its general-secretary. Khan resigned from this post in 1978. However, at the Jamiat Central Council of 1996, Khan was appointed as the executive president of a 51-member executive council. After the death of the council's erstwhile president, Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi, on 20 May 2005, Khan was given the responsibility as acting president.

Works

Khan wrote, edited and published Islamic literature in Bangla. He gave the realization of the fact that Muhammad can be a separate topic of literature, and it can be unique. Today, ''Seerat'' Literature is a rich section of Bengali language. He has translated and compiled nearly 105 books. He translated the eight volume Tafsir book ''Maarreef al Quran'' of Muhammad Shafi Deobandi from Urdu to Bengali. It is published from the ''Islamic Foundation Bangladesh''. In 1413 Hijri, the ''King Fahd Quran printing project'' of Madinah distributed the Tafseer printing in one volume in Bengali to the Bengali speakers throughout the world free of cost. Khan translated Al-Ghazali's ''Ihyau Ulumuddin'' and Abul Kalam Azad's ''Insaniat Mawt ki Darwaje Por (The form of humanity in the face of death)''. His established ''Madina Publications'' has published 600 quality books from the year 1957 in various subjects including the Quran, Hadith, Seerat-e Rasool, history, tradition and dictionary.

List of books written or translated by Muhiuddin Khan
* Islam and Our Life (ইসলাম ও আমাদের জীবন)
* The Right Path (সিরাতুল মুস্তাকীম)
* Maariful Qur'an (মারেফুল কোরআন সংক্ষিপ্ত বাংলা অনুবাদ সহ)
* Holy Jamjam (জান্নাতের অমীয়ধারা পবিত্র যমযম)
* Tajreedul Bukhari(তজরীদুল বোখারী)
* Azadi Movement 1857 (আযাদী আন্দোলন-১৮৫৭)
* Extra-Ordinary Incidents of Prophet Muhammad's Life (খাসায়েসুল কুবরা: নবী (সা:) জীবনের অত্যাশ্চর্য ঘটনাবলী )
* Biography of Prophet Muhammad's (সীরাতুন নবী)

See also

* Shah Ahmad Shafi
* Mufti-e-Azam Allama Faizullah
* Faqihul Millat Mufti Abdur Rahman
* Mufti Mizanur Rahman Sayed
* Fazlul Hoque Amini
* Allama Junaid Babunagari

References

External links

BanglaKitab.com

Bangladesh Qawmi Madrasah Education Board

Official Website of Darul Uloom Muinul Islam Hathazari

A Presentation by the leaders of Hefazot-e-Islam Bangladesh

কওমি মাদ্রাসার আধ্যাত্মিক প্রতিষ্ঠাতা হচ্ছেন রাসূলুল্লাহ (সা.)

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Deobandis
20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Sunni Islamic movements
Bangladeshi Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
1935 births
2016 deaths
People from Mymensingh District
Government Madrasah-e-Alia alumni
Translators of the Quran into Bengali
20th-century Bengalis
21st-century Bengalis
Secretary General of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh
Bengali Muslim scholars of Islam