Fazlul Hoque Amini | |
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| ফজলুল হক আমিনী | |
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| Member of Parliament forBrahmanbaria-2 | |
| In office 10 October 2001 – 29 October 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Ukil Abdul Sattar Bhuiyan |
| Succeeded by | Ziaul Haque Mridha |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1945[a] Aminpur,Brahmanbaria,Bengal Presidency, British Raj |
| Died | 12 December 2012(2012-12-12) (aged 66–67)[1] Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Resting place | Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh,Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Nationality | British Raj (1945-1947) Pakistani (1947-1971) Bangladeshi (1971-2012) |
| Political party | Islami Oikya Jote |
| Children | 2 sons and 4 daughters |
| Relatives | Hafezzi Huzur (father-in-law) |
| Alma mater | Jamia Binoria,Karachi University,Punjab University |
Fazlul Hoque Amini (Bengali:ফজলুল হক আমিনী) (c.1945 – 12 December 2012)[a] was anIslamic scholar and politician fromBangladesh. He served as anMP in theParliament of Bangladesh[7] from 2002 to 2007. He was an expert in the fields of Islamicjurisprudence (fiqh),hadith andtasawwuf. He also held a number of positions on the boards ofqaumimadrasahs. He was also theprincipal ofJamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh in Lalbagh,Dhaka, one of the largestDeobandi madrasa of Bangladesh.[8]
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Fazlul Haque was born on 15 November 1945 in the village of Aminpur inBrahmanbaria,Bengal Presidency. His father was Alhaj Wajed Uddin.[9] He started his education inJamia Islamia Yunusia at nine/ten years old before spending three years at Mustafaganj Madrasa inMunshiganj under Hafiz Muhsinuddin. His father then took him to Ashraful Uloom Bara Katara where he studied under Principal Pirji Huzur. Then in 1961, he enrolled at theJamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh forHadith studies. In 1969, following the request ofShamsul Haque Faridpuri, Amini advanced his knowledge ofahadith andfiqh by going toJamia Binoria inKarachi,West Pakistan for one year where he studied underMuhammad Yousuf Banuri.[10]
Amini was the chairman of a faction ofIslami Oikya Jote (IOJ),[1] and also a leader of Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat. He was a former component of the BNP-led four-party alliance. In 1970, he became theImam andKhatib of Alubazar Jame Masjid inOld Dhaka where he also founded amadrasa. In the same year, he became a teacher atHafezzi Huzur's founded Madrasa Nuriya inKamrangirchar,Dhaka and married Hafezzi's daughter. In 1972, he completed hishifz (memorisation of the entireQur'an) in nine months. Under the leadership of Hafezzi Huzur, he was a member of the Antarjatik Shanti Mission (International Peace Mission) relating to theIran–Iraq War. He became a teacher and assistantmufti atJamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh in 1975.
In 1984, he became the Chief Mufti of Lalbagh and later became its principal and Shaykhul Hadith in 1987 following Hafezzi Huzur's death. He also taught at Ashraful Uloom Bara Katara. In 1992, Amini organised a long march protest against thedemolition of the Babri Masjid inAyodhya, India.[10] Amini was appointed as the guardian (Muhtamim and Mutawalli) of Ashraful Uloom Bara Katara in 2003.[11]
In his home district of Brahmanbaria, he tackled certain non-governmental organisations (NGOs). In 1996, he stood up as a potential candidate for theBrahmanbaria-2 constituency, as a part of the Sammilita Sangram Parishad party, however he was unsuccessful. He managed to become MP during the2001 Bangladeshi general election as a part of theIslami Oikya Jote party, receiving over 55% of total votes. He was able to create a strong mass movement when theBangladesh High Court ruled in early 2001 to ban thefatwa.[10] During the2008 Bangladeshi general election, he stood up for the same constituency with IOJ party but was beaten byMd. Ziaul Haque Mridha of theJatiya Party.
He spoke out against the Women Development Policy of 2011[12] and the Education Policy of 2012[13] formulated by the Awami League government after coming to power in January 2009, saying the proposed legal reforms were anti-Islamic.[14][15] According to Rashidul Hasan, writing inThe Daily Star in April 2011:
Amini, in his booklet, termed anti-Islamic the policy's section-23.5 that talks about women's equal opportunity and participation in employment, wealth, market and business. So is section 25.2, which seeks to give women full control over the wealth they accumulate through earning, inheritance, loans and market management, according to Amini.[14]
Islamic scholars and academics interviewed byThe Daily Star disagreed with Amini, saying there was nothing anti-Islamic about the policies. They said Amini was misinterpreting theQuran out of ignorance, or was deliberately twisting its words for political gain.[14]
At a gathering on 14 July 2011, Amini, speaking about the15th Amendment to the Constitution, which among other things restored the principle ofsecularism andfreedom of religion, said, "People will throw the constitution, from where the name of Allah has been dropped, into dustbin [sic]".[16][17] He was sued forsedition for this remark, although he argued that it was a figure of speech.[17][18] On 26 September 2011, theHigh Court ordered him to surrender to authorities immediately.[19] He spent the remainder of his life under what he termed "house arrest", his movements confined by police to his home and the IOJ party office inLalbagh Thana, Dhaka.[6][20][21]
Amini's madrasa is now used as the Dhaka coordination office of Hefazat a Islam Bangladesh.[22]
He died in Dhaka on 12 December 2012 at 12:20 (GMT+6).[1]
Following his death, his son, Abul Hasnat Amini, became actively involved withHefazat-e-Islam.[23]
Hefazat-e-Islam, led by Amini's teacherAhmad Shafi,[citation needed] called for a 13-point movement against the government's policies and the demand of a blasphemy law.[24]
তাঁর বয়স হয়েছিল ৭০ বছর [He was 70 years old]
Amini died ... at the age of 70.
He was 69 ... He was born in 1943.
ফজলুল হক আমিনী (৬৭) বুধবার দিবাগত রাত সোয়া ১২টায় ইন্তেকাল [Huq Amini (67), died Wednesday night around 1 pm]
১৯৪৫ সনের ১৫ নভেম্বর বি-বাড়ীয়া জেলার আমিনপুর গ্রামের এক সম্ভ্রান্ত মুসলিম পরিবারে তাঁর জন্ম [On 15 November 1945 in Brahmanbaria district, he was born into a respectable Muslim family in the village of Aminpur]
