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Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria

Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria Mojumder (Bengali: আবু বকর মুহাম্মাদ যাকারিয়া মজুমদার; born 1969) is a Bangladeshi Islamic Islamic scholar, media personality, professor, writer, preacher and Islamic speaker.[1][2] He is currently serving as a professor in the Department of Fiqh and Legal Studies at Islamic University Kushtia. He has been discussing Islamic programs and Islam in various newspapers and magazines on various Bangladeshi television channels, including NTV, Peace TV and so on.[3] He also giving sermons at various Islamic mahfils and pre-Jumu'ah prayers Khutba at various places.[4][5][6] His "Tafsir Zakaria" has been published by King Fahad Printing Press, the official publication of Saudi Arabia, which is appreciated by the Muslim readers of Bengal.[7][8] His two Arabic books, Al-Hundusiyyah Wa Ta'assuru Fi Ba'dil Firaqil Islamiyyati Biha[9] and Shirk fil Kadim wal Hadith are very popular in the Arab world. Besides, his books are also in curriculum in public higher studies of Bangladesh.

Early life and family

Muhammad Zakaria Majumdar was born in 1969 to a Bengali Muslim family of Majumdars in the village of Dhanusara in the Chauddagram subdivision of East Pakistan's Comilla district. His father, Muhammad Siddiqur Rahman, was the principal of the local Dhanusara Islamia Madrasa.

Education

Abu Bakr Zakaria received his early education from his father. He passed from Dhanusara Islamia Madrasa c. in 1982 and passed Alim in 1984. Then in 1986 he passed Fazil from the same madrasa. He was admitted to Dhaka Alia Madrasah in 1988. He was first in the first class in Kamil's combined merit list.[10]

He was admitted to the Arabic department of Dhaka University in 1986. But while studying in the second year of Dhaka University, he got admission in Islamic University of Madinah. In 1989 he was admitted to the Shariah department of the Islamic University of Madinah. He jointly placed fifth in the combined graduation or honors examinations of the Shariah department.[a] He graduated from the University of Medina with a degree in Aqeedah. After graduation, he completed his PhD on comparative theology under the supervision of Abdullah Al-Gudayyan.[citation needed]

Apart from Abdullah Al-Gudayyan, Abdur Rahim, Maulana Fakhruddin, Maulana Wajihuddin and others are among his local teachers.[citation needed]

Career

After completing his studies, Zakaria returned to Bangladesh and joined Islamic University, Bangladesh (IU) as a lecturer in the Department of Fiqh in 2005 as an incharge.[10][11] He is also a founding member of Kulliyatul Qur'anil Karim Wad-Dirasatil Islamiyah, an Islamic Arabic educational institution in Bangladesh. He was a contemporary of IU teaching Khandaker Abdullah Jahangir, who simultaneously researched comparative theology and various subjects.[3][4][5] He has also given lectures and lectured at various places on YouTube. The central theme of his speech is Aqeedah. He follows and propagates Salafi ideology. He has a lot of followers in social media. Bangladeshi cricketers Tanzim Hasan Sakib and Mrittunjoy Chowdhury both follow him online and offline. Currently, he is serving as the founder and managing director of an under-construction multi-purpose Islamic institution called Abu Bakr Siddique Complex in Chouddagram of Comilla.

Criticism

Muhammad Zakaria was quoted in June 2021 as criticizing Abu Taha Muhammad Adnan, another young Islamic speaker, for his religious teachings. Both of them posted videos on YouTube and Facebook targeting each other.[12][13]

In September 2023, Bangladeshi cricketer Tanzim Hasan Sakib went viral in social media for sharing a comment Zakaria posted on his Facebook page a few years before, in which he discouraged women from being employed.[14]

Published books

Muhammad Zakariya has written books on Islam, including beliefs, Islamic law, hadith, interpretation of the Qur'an, and fiqh.[15] The list of his books is as follows:

Bengali translations

Original works

Bengali

In the Hajj of 2023, his two-volume Bengali tafseer published from King Fahd Glorious Quran Printing Complex has been given as a gift by the Saudi government to all the Bengali pilgrims.

Arabic

His book, Al-Hundusiyyah Wa Ta'assuru Fi Ba'dil Firaqil Islamiyyati Biha[9] and the two books of Shirk fil Kadim wal Hadith are popular in the Arab world.

The book Hindusiat, which he initially composed as a thesis under Saud bin Abdul Aziz al-Khalaf,[18] he took the direct help of his teacher Ziaur Rahman Azmi in the composition and closely followed Azmi's book "Fusulun fi Adianil Hind" (Chapters on Indian religions).

The book Shirk fil Qadim wal Hadith was also authors thesis under Ahmed bin Attia Al-Ghamdi, is very popular in Arab world as an academic book, many scholars have used this book as a reference in their written books and articles[23] including Ali al-Sallabi.[24][25][26]

His book Hindusiat wa Tasur was highly praised by Abdullah bin Salam al-Batati in the program "Al-Khajanah" of Zad TV owned by Muhammad Al-Munajjid and wished to be translated in English giving the book highly importance as a detailed work on Hinduism from the Islamic perspective.[27]

Indonesian

His book Ash-Shirk fil-Qadim Wal Hadith has been partially translated into Indonesian by Abu Umamah Arif Hidayatullah as "Syirik pada Zaman Dahulu dan Sekarang".[28][29] Besides, the same translator also translated some of his other works into Indonesian language.[30]

Academic

His book "Hindusiyat wa Tasur" is in the Department of Dawah and Islamic Studies at Kushtia Islamic University. Another book "Comparative Theology and Muslim Manisha" in five courses of undergraduate, postgraduate, MPhil and PhD in the Department of Dawah and Islamic Studies, Kushtia Islamic University and one course in the syllabus of the postgraduate syllabus of the Department of Islamic Studies, University of Dhaka.[31][32] Also a book titled "Comparative Review of Different Fiqhs" is included in a course of post graduate and MPhil of University of Chittagong.[33]

See also

Footnote

  1. ^ At the University of Madinah at that time, instead of a separate examination in each department, there was a single examination of a faculty consisting of several departments, in which Muhammad Zakaria was ranked 5th with more than one student.

References

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