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Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri

Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri (Bengali: শাহ সুলতান আহমদ নানুপুরী; 26 June 1914 – 16 August 1997), also known by his daak naam Badshah, was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, teacher and author. He established numerous madrasas in Bangladesh and was the founding principal of Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur for seventeen years.

Imām al-ʿĀrifīn Shah
Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri
সুলতান আহমদ নানুপুরী
Personal
Born
Shah Sultan Ahmad

26 June 1914
Died16 August 1997(1997-08-16) (aged 83)
ReligionIslam
SpouseMomena Khatun
Children2
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
MovementDeobandi
Alma materDarul Uloom Deoband
Muslim leader
TeacherMuhammad Faizullah
Hussain Ahmed Madani
Ibrahim Balyawi
Izaz Ali Amrohi
Disciple ofHussain Ahmed Madani
Azizul Haq
Disciples
Principal of Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur
In office
1958–1995
Succeeded byZamiruddin Nanupuri

Early life and family edit

Shah Sultan Ahmad was born on 26 June 1914, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Dharmapur, located under the Fatikchhari subdivision of the Bengal Province's Chittagong District.[1] His father, Shah Fazlur Rahman, worked in Rangoon, British Burma and his mother, Umdah Khatun, was a housewife. His grandfather's great-grandfather, Akbar Shah, migrated from Arabia to Bengal via Afghanistan for dawah and permanently settled there. Among Fazlur Rahman's children, it was only him that did not die during childhood. When he was roughly two and a half years old, his mother died as a result of a cholera outbreak.[2][3]

Education edit

Sultan Ahmad's education began at a local maktab ran by Ubaydul Haq Mianji. When he reached the age of five, he joined the Garzania Primary School. After his father's instruction, he later joined the Himayah al-Islam Madrasa in Nanupur Kalu Munshirhat. There he began studying from Yazdaham to Jamate Shashum under the likes of Lal Miyan,[1] Obaydul Hoque and Muhammad Faizullah.[4]

In his final year, his father died. After completing his studies, his stepmother advised him to join the Darul Uloom Alia Madrasa in the city of Chittagong. Ahmad stayed there for a few months but did not enjoy the curriculum, and so returned home. Being influenced by his former teachers, he intended to re-enrol from Jamate Shashum at the Darul Uloom Deoband. He therefore travelled to Saharanpur in Hindustan to complete his studies in Deoband. He also briefly studied at the nearby Mazahir Uloom, before graduating (MA) from the faculty of Hadith studies at Darul Uloom Deoband and beginning his philosophy course. Among his teachers were Hussain Ahmad Madani, Izaz Ali Amrohi, Ibrahim Balyawi, Zahur Ahmed, Habibullah Mirathi and Riyaz ad-Din.[4][5]

Career edit

 
Sultan Ahmad became known as the Nanupuri Huzur from his long residence in Nanupur, particularly Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur madrasa.

During his studies in Deoband, Nanupuri served as an imam at the Deoband Central Mosque. After graduating and returning to Bengal, he sent a letter to join the faculty at the Al-Jamia al-Arabia Nasirul Islam in Nazirhat Bazar and was accepted to teach there. The erstwhile principal of the madrasa, Nur Ahmad, later employed Zafar Ahmad Usmani too. Usmani was a supporter of the All-India Muslim League, whilst Nanupuri strongly believed that religious institutions like the madrasa should be free from political influence. Nanupuri subsequently left and became a teacher at Al-Jamiatul Islamiah Azizul Uloom Babunagar for 15 years. Azizul Haq later instructed Nanupuri to become the acting principal, and later the founding principal of Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur in 1961. He served in Nanupur for seventeen years in total, and then gave up the role to Zamiruddin Nanupuri.[6] Among his notable students were Abdur Rahman Chatgami, Muhibbullah Babunagari and Sultan Zauq Nadvi.[7]

Among the other madrasas that he established are Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiyyah Bayt al-Huda and Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiyyah Azizul Uloom Pokkhali. He was also the founder of the Ar-Rashid monthly magazine.[4]

Personal life edit

During his education in Deoband, Nanupuri spent seven years under Hussain Ahmad Madani, pledging bay'ah to Madani on 18 November 1944. However, after the Partition of India in 1947, Nanupuri was unable to maintain a close relationship with Madani, and could not meet with Ashraf Ali Thanwi either as he was ill. Madani responded to Nanupuri in a letter giving him permission to master tasawuuf under a different Sufi scholar. Nanupuri then became a murid of Azizul Haq of Patiya, and received khilafah (spiritual succession) from him after 15 years.[8]

Nanupuri first completed Hajj with his pir, Azizul Haq. In 1967, a businessman named Niamat Ali Sawdagar funded Nanupuri for Hajj. His third hajj took place in 1970, alongside Mohammed Younus and Abdur Rahman Chatgami. His fourth and last hajj was in 1991, alongside Mufti Said Ahmad (founder of Jamia Sultania Lalpol) and Afsar Ahmad (Qari of Nanupur Madrasa).[4]

On 21 January 1945, Nanupuri married Momena Khatun, the first daughter of Munshi Abdul Khaliq. They had four sons and six daughters, although two sons died at an early stage. His son, Imdadullah Nanupuri, is also an Islamic scholar and the principal of Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiyyah Bayt al-Huda.[9]

Death and legacy edit

Nanupuri died on 16 August 1997 in his own room at Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur, after being ill for three years. The next day, Ali Ahmad Boalvi led his janaza at the Nanupur Madrasa courtyard. Nanupuri's elder son Hussain Ahmad Nanupuri was unable to participate as he was in the United Arab Emirates at the time and so when he returned, Nanupuri's younger son Imdadullah Nanupuri led a second funeral prayer. After the prayer, Nanupuri was buried in the Maqbara-e-Sultania.[5]

Nanupuri's leading khalifah (spiritual successor) Said Ahmad established a madrasa in Feni named after him as Al-Jamiah al-Islamiyyah as-Sultaniyyah. He also wrote a biography on his teacher titled "Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri's life and teachings" which was published by the Hakimul Ulama Foundation Bangladesh.[8] Shah Ahmad Ghani also wrote a biography on Nanupuri, and Abdul Majid Muhajir-e-Makki wrote an eleven-volume Urdu biography titled "Marif-e-Sultan". Abdus Salam Chatgami later edited the work and published it in two volumes.[10][11] His disciples have founded numerous institutions and organisations in his name such as the Allama Shah Sultan Ahmad Foundation Bangladesh, and his speeches have been collected and published. In 2018, Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiyyah Bayt al-Huda began publishing a seasonal magazine named after him as the Samayiki As-Sultan.[9] Among his other biographies are:

  1. Hayat-e-Nanupuri Rah. (1999) - Professor Munawwar
  2. Nanupuri Rah. Er Jibon O Dorshon (2000) - Imdadullah Nanupuri
  3. Fuyuz-e-Sultani (2005) - Mawlana Rafiq
  4. Kemon Chilen Nanupuri (2008) - Mahmudul Hasan
  5. Mawayez-e-Sultan (2008) - Mufti Moinuddin (Chief Mufti of Basundhara Madrasa)
  6. Malfuzat-e-Nanupuri

References edit

  1. ^ a b al-Kumillai, Muhammad Hifzur Rahman (2018). "العالم الرباني الداعية الكبير المحدث الشيخ سلطان أحمد بن الشيخ فضل الرحمن النانوفوري" [al-ʿĀlim ar-Rabbānī, the great propagator, the Muhaddith, the Shaykh Sulṭān Aḥmad ibn Faḍl ar-Raḥmān al-Nānūfūrī]. كتاب البدور المضية في تراجم الحنفية (in Arabic). Cairo, Egypt: Dar al-Salih.
  2. ^ Aminul Islam, S. M.; Islam, Samar (January 2014). "মাওলানা সুলতান আহমদ নানুপুরী রহ.". বাংলার শত আলেমের জীবনকথা. Bangla Bazar, Dhaka: Baighar. pp. 336–338.
  3. ^ Khan, Dawlat Ali (25 August 2017). "এক দুনিয়া বিমুখ আধ্যাত্মিক রাহবার". Daily Inqilab (in Bengali).
  4. ^ a b c d Islam, Aminul; Islam, Samar (2014). বাংলার শত আলেমের জীবনকথা [Biographies of hundreds of Bengali scholars] (in Bengali). Dhaka-1100: Book House. pp. 109–113.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. ^ a b Ahmadullah, Hafez; Qadir, Ridwanul (2018). মাশায়েখে চাটগাম [Mashayekh-e Chatgam] (in Bengali). Dhaka: Ahmad Publication. pp. 162–185. ISBN 978-984-92106-4-1.
  6. ^ Nizampuri, Ashraf Ali (2013). "রাহবারে তরীকত মাওলানা সুলতান আহমদ নানুপুরী রহ.". দ্যা হান্ড্রেড (বাংলা মায়ের একশ কৃতিসন্তান) (in Bengali) (1 ed.). Hathazari: Salman Prakashani. pp. 362–364. ISBN 978-112009250-2.
  7. ^ Sayyid, Ahsan (2006). বাংলাদেশে হাদিস চর্চা উৎপত্তি ও ক্রমবিকাশ (in Bengali). 19 Segunbagicha, Dhaka: Adorn Publication. p. 261. ISBN 9789842005602.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  8. ^ a b Ahmad, Said. শায়খুল আরব ওয়াল আজম, কুতুবুল আলম আল্লামা শাহ সুলতান আহমদ নানুপুরী রহ. এর জীবন ও আদর্শ (in Bengali). Lalpol, Feni, Bangladesh: Hakimul Olama Foundation.
  9. ^ a b "আল্লামা শাহ সুলতান আহমদ নানুপুরী রহ. এর স্বরণে সাময়িকী". As-Sultan (in Bengali). Nanupur: As-Sultan Kafela. November 2018.
  10. ^ Ghani, Shah Ahmad. আল্লামা শাহ সুলতান আহমদ নানুপুরী রহ. এর জীবন ও অবদান. Nanupur: Allama Shah Sultan Ahmad Foundation Bangladesh.
  11. ^ Muhajir-e-Makki, Abdul Majid. Maarif-e-Sultan.

sultan, ahmad, nanupuri, shah, bengali, লত, আহমদ, june, 1914, august, 1997, also, known, daak, naam, badshah, bangladeshi, islamic, scholar, teacher, author, established, numerous, madrasas, bangladesh, founding, principal, jamiah, islamiah, obaidia, nanupur, . Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri Bengali শ হ স লত ন আহমদ ন ন প র 26 June 1914 16 August 1997 also known by his daak naam Badshah was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar teacher and author He established numerous madrasas in Bangladesh and was the founding principal of Al Jamiah Al Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur for seventeen years Imam al ʿArifin ShahSultan Ahmad Nanupuriস লত ন আহমদ ন ন প র PersonalBornShah Sultan Ahmad26 June 1914Dharmapur Chittagong District Bengal ProvinceDied16 August 1997 1997 08 16 aged 83 Al Jamiah Al Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur BangladeshReligionIslamSpouseMomena KhatunChildren2DenominationSunniJurisprudenceHanafiMovementDeobandiAlma materDarul Uloom DeobandMuslim leaderTeacherMuhammad FaizullahHussain Ahmed MadaniIbrahim BalyawiIzaz Ali AmrohiDisciple ofHussain Ahmed MadaniAzizul HaqDisciples Said AhmadStudents Abdur Rahman ChatgamiMuhibbullah BabunagariSultan Zauq NadviPrincipal of Al Jamiah Al Islamiah Obaidia NanupurIn office 1958 1995Succeeded byZamiruddin Nanupuri Contents 1 Early life and family 2 Education 3 Career 4 Personal life 5 Death and legacy 6 ReferencesEarly life and family editShah Sultan Ahmad was born on 26 June 1914 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Dharmapur located under the Fatikchhari subdivision of the Bengal Province s Chittagong District 1 His father Shah Fazlur Rahman worked in Rangoon British Burma and his mother Umdah Khatun was a housewife His grandfather s great grandfather Akbar Shah migrated from Arabia to Bengal via Afghanistan for dawah and permanently settled there Among Fazlur Rahman s children it was only him that did not die during childhood When he was roughly two and a half years old his mother died as a result of a cholera outbreak 2 3 Education editSultan Ahmad s education began at a local maktab ran by Ubaydul Haq Mianji When he reached the age of five he joined the Garzania Primary School After his father s instruction he later joined the Himayah al Islam Madrasa in Nanupur Kalu Munshirhat There he began studying from Yazdaham to Jamate Shashum under the likes of Lal Miyan 1 Obaydul Hoque and Muhammad Faizullah 4 In his final year his father died After completing his studies his stepmother advised him to join the Darul Uloom Alia Madrasa in the city of Chittagong Ahmad stayed there for a few months but did not enjoy the curriculum and so returned home Being influenced by his former teachers he intended to re enrol from Jamate Shashum at the Darul Uloom Deoband He therefore travelled to Saharanpur in Hindustan to complete his studies in Deoband He also briefly studied at the nearby Mazahir Uloom before graduating MA from the faculty of Hadith studies at Darul Uloom Deoband and beginning his philosophy course Among his teachers were Hussain Ahmad Madani Izaz Ali Amrohi Ibrahim Balyawi Zahur Ahmed Habibullah Mirathi and Riyaz ad Din 4 5 Career edit nbsp Sultan Ahmad became known as the Nanupuri Huzur from his long residence in Nanupur particularly Al Jamiah Al Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur madrasa nbsp Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri reciting a Persian poem by Hafez source source Problems playing this file See media help During his studies in Deoband Nanupuri served as an imam at the Deoband Central Mosque After graduating and returning to Bengal he sent a letter to join the faculty at the Al Jamia al Arabia Nasirul Islam in Nazirhat Bazar and was accepted to teach there The erstwhile principal of the madrasa Nur Ahmad later employed Zafar Ahmad Usmani too Usmani was a supporter of the All India Muslim League whilst Nanupuri strongly believed that religious institutions like the madrasa should be free from political influence Nanupuri subsequently left and became a teacher at Al Jamiatul Islamiah Azizul Uloom Babunagar for 15 years Azizul Haq later instructed Nanupuri to become the acting principal and later the founding principal of Al Jamiah Al Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur in 1961 He served in Nanupur for seventeen years in total and then gave up the role to Zamiruddin Nanupuri 6 Among his notable students were Abdur Rahman Chatgami Muhibbullah Babunagari and Sultan Zauq Nadvi 7 Among the other madrasas that he established are Al Jamiah Al Islamiyyah Bayt al Huda and Al Jamiah Al Islamiyyah Azizul Uloom Pokkhali He was also the founder of the Ar Rashid monthly magazine 4 Personal life editDuring his education in Deoband Nanupuri spent seven years under Hussain Ahmad Madani pledging bay ah to Madani on 18 November 1944 However after the Partition of India in 1947 Nanupuri was unable to maintain a close relationship with Madani and could not meet with Ashraf Ali Thanwi either as he was ill Madani responded to Nanupuri in a letter giving him permission to master tasawuuf under a different Sufi scholar Nanupuri then became a murid of Azizul Haq of Patiya and received khilafah spiritual succession from him after 15 years 8 Nanupuri first completed Hajj with his pir Azizul Haq In 1967 a businessman named Niamat Ali Sawdagar funded Nanupuri for Hajj His third hajj took place in 1970 alongside Mohammed Younus and Abdur Rahman Chatgami His fourth and last hajj was in 1991 alongside Mufti Said Ahmad founder of Jamia Sultania Lalpol and Afsar Ahmad Qari of Nanupur Madrasa 4 On 21 January 1945 Nanupuri married Momena Khatun the first daughter of Munshi Abdul Khaliq They had four sons and six daughters although two sons died at an early stage His son Imdadullah Nanupuri is also an Islamic scholar and the principal of Al Jamiah Al Islamiyyah Bayt al Huda 9 Death and legacy editNanupuri died on 16 August 1997 in his own room at Al Jamiah Al Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur after being ill for three years The next day Ali Ahmad Boalvi led his janaza at the Nanupur Madrasa courtyard Nanupuri s elder son Hussain Ahmad Nanupuri was unable to participate as he was in the United Arab Emirates at the time and so when he returned Nanupuri s younger son Imdadullah Nanupuri led a second funeral prayer After the prayer Nanupuri was buried in the Maqbara e Sultania 5 Nanupuri s leading khalifah spiritual successor Said Ahmad established a madrasa in Feni named after him as Al Jamiah al Islamiyyah as Sultaniyyah He also wrote a biography on his teacher titled Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri s life and teachings which was published by the Hakimul Ulama Foundation Bangladesh 8 Shah Ahmad Ghani also wrote a biography on Nanupuri and Abdul Majid Muhajir e Makki wrote an eleven volume Urdu biography titled Marif e Sultan Abdus Salam Chatgami later edited the work and published it in two volumes 10 11 His disciples have founded numerous institutions and organisations in his name such as the Allama Shah Sultan Ahmad Foundation Bangladesh and his speeches have been collected and published In 2018 Al Jamiah Al Islamiyyah Bayt al Huda began publishing a seasonal magazine named after him as the Samayiki As Sultan 9 Among his other biographies are Hayat e Nanupuri Rah 1999 Professor Munawwar Nanupuri Rah Er Jibon O Dorshon 2000 Imdadullah Nanupuri Fuyuz e Sultani 2005 Mawlana Rafiq Kemon Chilen Nanupuri 2008 Mahmudul Hasan Mawayez e Sultan 2008 Mufti Moinuddin Chief Mufti of Basundhara Madrasa Malfuzat e NanupuriReferences edit a b al Kumillai Muhammad Hifzur Rahman 2018 العالم الرباني الداعية الكبير المحدث الشيخ سلطان أحمد بن الشيخ فضل الرحمن النانوفوري al ʿAlim ar Rabbani the great propagator the Muhaddith the Shaykh Sulṭan Aḥmad ibn Faḍl ar Raḥman al Nanufuri كتاب البدور المضية في تراجم الحنفية in Arabic Cairo Egypt Dar al Salih Aminul Islam S M Islam Samar January 2014 ম ওল ন স লত ন আহমদ ন ন প র রহ ব ল র শত আল ম র জ বনকথ Bangla Bazar Dhaka Baighar pp 336 338 Khan Dawlat Ali 25 August 2017 এক দ ন য ব ম খ আধ য ত ম ক র হব র Daily Inqilab in Bengali a b c d Islam Aminul Islam Samar 2014 ব ল র শত আল ম র জ বনকথ Biographies of hundreds of Bengali scholars in Bengali Dhaka 1100 Book House pp 109 113 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location link a b Ahmadullah Hafez Qadir Ridwanul 2018 ম শ য খ চ টগ ম Mashayekh e Chatgam in Bengali Dhaka Ahmad Publication pp 162 185 ISBN 978 984 92106 4 1 Nizampuri Ashraf Ali 2013 র হব র তর কত ম ওল ন স লত ন আহমদ ন ন প র রহ দ য হ ন ড র ড ব ল ম য র একশ ক ত সন ত ন in Bengali 1 ed Hathazari Salman Prakashani pp 362 364 ISBN 978 112009250 2 Sayyid Ahsan 2006 ব ল দ শ হ দ স চর চ উৎপত ত ও ক রমব ক শ in Bengali 19 Segunbagicha Dhaka Adorn Publication p 261 ISBN 9789842005602 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location link a b Ahmad Said শ য খ ল আরব ওয ল আজম ক ত ব ল আলম আল ল ম শ হ স লত ন আহমদ ন ন প র রহ এর জ বন ও আদর শ in Bengali Lalpol Feni Bangladesh Hakimul Olama Foundation a b আল ল ম শ হ স লত ন আহমদ ন ন প র রহ এর স বরণ স ময ক As Sultan in Bengali Nanupur As Sultan Kafela November 2018 Ghani Shah Ahmad আল ল ম শ হ স লত ন আহমদ ন ন প র রহ এর জ বন ও অবদ ন Nanupur Allama Shah Sultan Ahmad Foundation Bangladesh Muhajir e Makki Abdul Majid Maarif e Sultan Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sultan 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