Maqsudullah | |
|---|---|
মকসুদুল্লাহ | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 1883 |
| Died | 1961 (aged 77–78) Talgachhia,Bakerganj District,East Pakistan |
| Resting place | Talgachhia Darbar Sharif |
| Education | Kachua Madrasa Darul Uloom Deoband |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Teachers | Saeed Ahmad Kalkini Ali Ahmad Hasanpuri |
| Tariqa | Chishti |
| Movement | Deobandi |
| Muslim leader | |
| Disciple of | Ashraf Ali Thanwi |
| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | Maqṣūd Ullāh مقصود الله |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | ibn Thanāʾ Ullāh ibn Ḥijr Ullāh بن ثناء الله بن حجر الله |
| Epithet (Laqab) | Talgasiar Pīr Ṣāḥeb তালগাছিয়ার পীর সাহেব |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | al-Ghāzī الغازي al-Barīsālī البريسالي |
Maqṣūd Ullāh ibn Thanāʾ Ullāh ibn Ḥijr Ullāh al-Ghāzī (Arabic:مقصود الله بن ثناء الله بن حجر الله الغازي; 1883–1961), commonly known asMaqsudullah (Bengali:মকসুদুল্লাহ), was aBengaliDeobandiIslamic scholar best known as the inauguralPir of Talgasia Darbar Sharif.[1][2] He was a disciple ofAshraf Ali Thanwi, and founded numerousqaumimadrasas in theGreater Barisal region.[3]
Maqsudullah was born in 1883 to aBengali Muslim family ofGhazis in the village ofTalgasia,Jhalakathi, then located under theBackergunge District of theBengal Presidency. His father,Moulvi Ghazi Sanaullah, died in 1898 whilst returning from theHajj pilgrimage and so Maqsudullah was mostly raised by his mother, Amena Khatun, and his paternal grandfather, Moulvi Ghazi Hijrullah.[4]
Maqsudullah completed thememorisation of theQur'an at an early age. His grandfather then took him to the nearby Kachua Madrasah where he entrusted him to the supervision of Saeed Ahmad of Kalkini.[4] After completing his studies in Kachua, Ahmad instructed Maqsudullah to travel toHindustan and enrol at theDarul Uloom Deoband seminary. Maqsudullah left for Deoband in 1906, where he spent several years attaining furtherIslamic studies.[5] Among the other Barisali students at Deoband during his time were Zainul Abedin, Muhammad Yasin, Mansur Ahmad and Fajruddin. Maqsudullah became a student andmurid ofAshraf Ali Thanwi.[6] Thanwi later sent him to study under Ali Ahmad of Hasanpur. After spending some time studying in Hasanpur andSaharanpur, Maqsudullah returned to Deoband in 1916 where he receivedkhilafat (spiritual succession) from Thanwi within a few days in the fourtariqas.[7]
Maqsudullah returned toBengal in 1919. He was later appointed as the principal of Kachua Madrasa for many years. He then established theMadrasa-e-Ashrafia Emdadia in his ancestral village of Talgacchia, one of the earlyqaumi institutions in theGreater Barisal region and based on theDars-i Nizami curriculum. He also founded a mosque adjacent to the madrasa known as Baitul Mamoor. Maqsudullah then went on to establish many moremadrasas in Barisal such as Ashraful Uloom Barisal, Latabunia Madrasa, Kaikhali Madrasa and the Paikkhali Maqsudul Uloom Madrasa inBhandaria.[4]
On 13 December 1947, a consultation conference was held at the Chawkbazar Jame Ebadullah Mosque presided by Syed Mahmud Mustafa. The conference was attended by the majorulama of Greater Barisal including Maqsudullah of Talgasia who assisted in the establishment of the Mahmudia Madrasa.[8]
Maqsudullah died in 1961, and was buried in the Talgasia Darbar Sharif. He was succeeded aspir by his descendants such as Shahidullah Ashrafi.[9]