Dula Mia Saudagar
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Dula Mia Saudagar | |
|---|---|
| Personal life | |
| Born | 1910 |
| Died | 2000 (aged 89–90) |
| Children | Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Ibrahim |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
Haji Muhammad Dula Mia Saudagar (1910 – 2000) was a Bangladeshi jeweller.[1]
Biography
[edit]Saudagar was born in 1910, to a Bengali family of Muslim Saudagars in the village of Bathua, Hathazari in the Chittagong District of the Bengal Presidency. His father, Haji Muhammad Nazu Mia Saudagar, was a gold jeweller based in Chittagong. There is a commercial area and bazaar in Chittagong district named after his father as Nazu Miar Hat.[2]
He dropped out of high school but inherited the business from his father.[3] In 1943, his shop was bombed by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service during the Burma campaign (1942–1943) and so he moved to 20 Bakhshir Hat instead based in Khatunganj, Chittagong. His house was later partially bombed by the Japanese, and so he briefly returned to Bathua, his ancestral village, along with his family. Saudagar was a member of the Muslim League National Guard.[4]
Saudagar was a disciple of Maulana Shah Abdus Salam Arakani and Jamiat politician Qutbul Alam Sultanul Auliya Maulana Shah Abdul Majid (Bara Huzur Qebla, Garangia Darbar Sharif), both of whom were spiritual successors of Maulana Shah Alhaj Hafiz Hamid Hasan Alvi of Azamgarh, India. Saudagar was a member of the committee which overlooked the Khanqah-e-Hamidiyyah on Kazem Ali Lane in Khalifapatti, Ghatfarhadbeg. This was the oldest purpose-built khanqa in Chittagong city and established by Shah Abdul Majid of Garangia in the 1960s. In 1959, Saudagar and his family established a building called Niribili in Panchlaish, just west of the United Nations Park. Everyday he would still go to the gold shop in Khatunganj from Panchlaish as well as the Wali Khan Mosque, he would walk there in a pair of kharams for the completion of Fajr and Asr prayers. He completed the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca three times.[4] Saudagar expanded his business into multiple sectors, including a packaging factory as well.[3]
Personal life and death
[edit]He was married to Sufia Khatun in 1930, the daughter of a landowner in the Chittagong-Arakan region. They had 7 sons and 2 daughters. Among them is Muhammad Yunus, the Chief Adviser of Bangladesh, and the academic Muhammad Ibrahim.[3]
Saudagar died in 2000, aged 89 or 90. He was a very notable personality and so the Government of Bangladesh permitted for a road to be named after him as Haji Muhammad Dula Mia Road near Bathua.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Ibrahim, Syed Muhammad (2011). মিশ্র_কথন (in Bengali). Easy Publications. p. 18.
- ^ Hossain, Iqbal. "ড. ইউনূসের বাবার নামের সড়কটি এবড়োখেবড়ো, নামফলক ভাঙা" [The road named after Dr. Yunus' father is bumpy, the nameplate is broken]. Jagonews24.com (in Bengali).
- ^ a b c Choudhury, Ahmadul Islam (21 August 2024). "ড. ইউনূসের পিতা গারাংগিয়া তরিকতের সুফি" [Dr. Yunus' father is a Sufi of the Garangiya order.]. Dainik Azadi (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 28 April 2025.
- ^ a b Yunus, Muhammad (31 March 2007). Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-546-7.
- ^ "প্রধান উপদেষ্টার পিতা হাজি দুলা মিয়া সওদাগর সড়কের বেহাল দশা, চলাচল অনুপযোগী হাটহাজারী শিকারপুর সড়ক" [Chief Adviser's father Haji Dula Mia Saudagar Road is in a bad condition, Hathazari Shikarpur Road is unfit for traffic]. Daily Inqilab (in Bengali). 18 August 2024. Archived from the original on 1 May 2025. Retrieved 1 May 2025.