Ala Bakhsh
Muhammad Ala Bakhsh | |
|---|---|
মুহম্মদ আলা বখশ | |
| Personal | |
| Born | |
| Died | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Flourished | 16th century |
| Children | Elahi Bakhsh |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Tariqa | Naqshbandi |
| Relations | Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali |
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Shāh Muḥammad ʿAlāʼ Bakhsh (Bengali: শাহ মুহম্মদ আলা বখশ) was a 16th-century Bengali theologian, activist and Islamic scholar. He was the ancestor of Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali, a prominent Ṣūfī the 20th century.
Early life and family[edit]
Bakhsh was born in the 1500s in the disintegrating Sultanate of Bengal to a Bengali Muslim family of theologians from Sylhet. He was a descendant of Shāh Kamāl Yemenī (also known as Shah Pahlawān), a disciple of Shāh Jalāl who contributed in the Muslim conquest of Sylhet in 1303.[1][2] Shah Kamal Yemeni settled in the village of Moqamduar in Jalālpur, along with Shāh Muʿīn ad-Dīn and Shāh Jawhar ad-Dīn, where he was later buried in a mazar (mausoleum).[3]
Bakhsh migrated from Jalālpur with his family for spiritual reasons, eventually settling down in the village of Fultalī. He also had a son named Shāh Elāhī Bakhsh.[4]
Beliefs and views[edit]
In connection to his ancestors and descendants, Bakhsh is generally thought to be a member of the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī order. This is also backed up by Bakhsh being a follower of contemporary scholar Aḥmad Sirhindī of Punjāb.[4] Similarly, Bakhsh was a critic of the Din-i Ilahi established by Mughal emperor Akbar and took part in Sirhindī's opposition movement in the 1580s.[5]
Legacy[edit]
Bakhsh's descendants continued the family tradition of being notable regional transmitters of religious knowledge. His grandson, Shāh Muḥammad Ṣādiq, had a son named Shāh Muḥammad Dānish, who had a son named Shāh Muḥammad Hiron. Hiron was the father of Shāh Muftī Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Majīd an-Naqshbandī al-Mujaddidī who was bestowed the title of Choudhury. Hiron's grandson, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Chowdhury Fultalī, gained prominence as the founder of the Fultalī movement in Bangladesh, India and the United Kingdom.[5] Shaykh Fāṭir ʿAlī, another descendant of Bakhsh, established the Badedeorail Fultali Kamil Madrasa in 1920.[6]
See also[edit]
- Ali Sher Bengali, another 16th-century Muslim scholar of Bengali origin
- Usman Bengali, another 16th-century Bengali Muslim scholar
- Yusuf Bengali, another 16th-century Bengali Muslim scholar
References[edit]
- ↑ Huda, Muhammad Shehabul (1985). The Saints And Shrines Of Chittagong (Thesis). Chittagong: University of Chittagong. p. 63.
Shah Kamal Yamani
- ↑ Ali, Syed Murtaza (1971). Saints of East Pakistan. Oxford University Press, Pakistan Branch. p. 27. Search this book on
- ↑ Qurashi, Ishfaq (December 2012). "তিন'শ ষাট আউলিয়ার বিবরণ" [Description of the three hundred and sixty saints]. শাহজালাল(রঃ) এবং শাহদাউদ কুরায়শী(রঃ) [Shah Jalal and Shah Dawud Qurayshi] (in Bengali). Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Family Background". Fultali. 2007. Archived from the original on 1 September 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ahmed, Abdul-Azim; Ali, Mansur (2019). In Search of Sylhet – The Fultoli Tradition in Britain (Thesis). Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- ↑ Amin, Faysal (19 February 2020). "ফুলতলী কামিল মাদরাসার শতবর্ষ উদ্যাপন ২০ ফেব্রুয়ারী" [Centenary celebration of Fultali Kamil Madrasa on 20th February]. Daily Inqilab (in Bengali).
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