Haji ShariatUllah

And Islam in
Bengal
A reformer: Haji
ShariatUllah. • Name: Haji ShariatUllah.
• Profession: Islamic scholar.
• Place of birth:  Faridpur district,
Bengal.
• Year of birth: 1781.

Profile • Father's name: Abdul Jalil

Talukdar.
• About father: A farmer who died
when Haji Shariatullah was 8
years old.
• Known for: Faraizi movement.
Faridpur district, Bengal • Children: Mohammad Mohsin
(Dadhu Miyan).
 The nowadays Madrassa of
Murshidabad.
•Got early education from his
village. 
•Received further education
from the famous Madrassa
of Murshidabad.
Early Life •At age12, He ran away to
Calcutta. 
•Learnt Arabic and Persian in
two years from his Quran
teacher: Maulana Basharat.
 Muhammad Bin Abdul Wahab,
founder of the Wahabi
Movement.

EARLY
LIFE

Interested in the
Performed hajj at age Wahabism
of 18. Got his religious Movement, started by
education while staying Muhammad bin Abdul
in Arabia (1799-1818).  Wahab (whom he was
greatly influenced from). 
 BELIEF
Muslims suffering due to Hindu
dominance.
S Muslims still being tortured.

Focus was to Told that Friday

purify Islam that prayer and Eid
was impaired by can’t be offered
Hindu Influence. there.
 BELIEF
Eid-ul-Fitr Prayer, a sacred congregation.
S

Believed that the Wanted Muslims to

Muslim community return to the proper
had moved away observation of
from Islamic Islamic duties
practice. called Faraiz.
The Faraizi Movement The Founder himself.

Background
• 'Faraizi' is deduced from 'farz',
standing for mandatory/compulsory
duties ordained by Allah. Slave trade in Bengal before the movement.
• Place of incident: Bengal
• Founded in: 1818.
• Founder: Haji ShariatUllah.
• Main involvement was of: most
depressed section of Muslim society,
i.e. artisans, tenants, farmers etc.
(known as the Faraizis).
 The Faraizi Namaz, an obligatory practice in Islam.

Movement
PURPOSE
• To discard un-Islamic practices
and customs.
• Muslims to act upon their
duties/religious obligations/faraiz Hajj, one of the mandatory
and commandments of faith. religious duties in Islam.
• To protect rights of depressed
section of Muslim society, i.e.
tenants, farmers and artisans etc.
• Objectives of Faraizis: to impose
mandatory religious duties.
The Faraizi
Movement
His
Intentions

To assimilate To follow the

all religious Sunnah of the
obligations in Prophet
Quran. PBUH.
 The Faraizi
Movement

Effects
The faraiz obligatory for all Muslims.

His popularity made Muslims realized

Hindus jealous. Hindus and performed
harassed him and were
determined to throw their religious
him out from Bengal. duties properly.
 Importance of
work

Awakened Muslims discarded un-Islamic After death in 1840, his

practices and son, Muhammad Mohsin
of Bengal by
customs/encouraged organized the movement
initiating the Faraizi to act upon the who carried on the work
Movement. faraiz/duties. of his father.
Haji ShariatUllah Bridge. Shariatpur District.

Legacy
One of the districts in Bangladesh issued The 450 m (1,480
the Dhaka Division a postage stamp ft) Haji Shariatullah
was named Shariatpur commemorating Bridge over the
District in honor of him on 10 March Arial Khan River is
him. 1993. named after him.