Maqsudullah was a disciple of Ashraf Ali Thanwi, and founded numerous qaumi madrasas in the Greater Barisal region.
11 Facts About Maqsudullah
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Maqsudullah was born in 1883 to a Bengali Muslim family of Ghazis in the village of Talgasia, Jhalakathi, then located under the Backergunge District of the Bengal Presidency.
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Maqsudullah completed the memorisation of the Qur'an at an early age.
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Maqsudullah left for Deoband in 1906, where he spent several years attaining further Islamic studies.
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Maqsudullah became a student and murid of Ashraf Ali Thanwi.
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Maqsudullah was later appointed as the principal of Kachua Madrasa for many years.
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Maqsudullah then established the Madrasa-e-Ashrafia Emdadia in his ancestral village of Talgacchia, one of the early qaumi institutions in the Greater Barisal region and based on the Dars-i Nizami curriculum.
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Maqsudullah founded a mosque adjacent to the madrasa known as Baitul Mamoor.
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Maqsudullah then went on to establish many more madrasas in Barisal such as Ashraful Uloom Barisal, Latabunia Madrasa, Kaikhali Madrasa and the Paikkhali Maqsudul Uloom Madrasa in Bhandaria.
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Maqsudullah died in 1961, and was buried in the Talgasia Darbar Sharif.
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Maqsudullah was succeeded as pir by his descendants such as Shahidullah Ashrafi.