Moulana Minnathulla Rahamani

  MOULANA MINNATHULLA RAHAMANI

Date of Birth: 1912 and Date of Death: 1991

            , who provided shelter to freedom fighters and who made his house ‘Khankha Rehamani’ a secrete center for the activities of freedom struggle, was born in 1912 in Bihar state.  He gave a call that it was the primary duty of every Muslim to take part in the National Movement and fight against the British rule.  He participated in the movement with a systematic plan.  He supported everyone from Bihar who fought for total independence.  He served two terms in prison as his activities angered the British government.  All the publicity material meant for the independence movement that used to be designed and prepared at ‘Khanqah Rahmani’ was supplied secretly to all parts of Bihar.  Khanqah Rahmani was visited by Gandhiji and several other top leaders of Indian National Movement.  When he was released from jail, he started appealing directly to the people to take part in the freedom movement.  Under the supervision of Minnathullah, Khanqah Rahmani became a ‘refugee camp’ to all the activists of National Movement during the oppression of British government.  During the earth quake in Bihar in 1934, Khanqah Rahmani served as the head quarters for all the activity of help and rehabilitation.  National leaders of Indian freedom movement such as Mahatma, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan and Jawaharlal Nehru organised several programmes from Khanqah Rahmani as head quarters.  He actively took part in the programmes of National Movement organised by Jamath-e-Ulma-e-Hind and won the elections of 1936 as a candidate of Muslim Independent Party.  He opposed the Pakistan resolution.  He kept resenting the actions of British and continued supporting the activities of freedom movement.  He politely refused the seat for Rajyasabha offered by Jawaharlal Nehru through then the Chief Minister of Bihar Krishna Singh in the post independence India.  Later on he turned ‘Khanqah Rahmani’ into a ‘Centre for Islamic Knowledge’.  He participated in religious and social reform activities and wrote several books, widely acclaimed as ‘Amir-e-Shariat’ by people and scholars alike.  Moulana Minnathulla Rehamani passed away in 1991.