If I die, everyone will call you the wife and children of the martyr
September 24, 20244 Mins Read
Jumbangla Desk: 'I will be a martyr if I go to the movement. I will take my child to the movement. Put my child in front, I will stay behind. If I die, then everyone will call you wives and children of martyrs. And if my child dies, then everyone will call us martyr parents.'

Hujur

This is what Mazharul Islam Masroor alias Ali Azgar (29) used to say to his wife Bibi Salma when she was forbidden to go to the movement.

On Tuesday (September 24) at noon, Bibi Salma told the reporter these things in a crying voice with a new baby in her arms.

Meanwhile, Masroor's wife Salma was eight months pregnant when she was shot dead. Just a month and a half after his death last Sunday (September 22), his wife gave birth to a baby boy. The baby has yet to be named. The fatherless boy's future life is clouded.

Apart from this, he has a three-and-a-half-year-old daughter named Nafiza Akhtar. Who used to talk to his father on mobile phone every day. Nafiza has not spoken to her father for the past one and a half months. His eyes watered when he asked about his father. What is the pain of losing little Nafiza father? Maybe he doesn't even understand. But in the presence of everyone in the house, his two eyes only look for his father. Maybe her thoughts—her father coming home from work. However, Nafiza often cries for her father because she cannot speak, said her mother Salma. Salma with her son and daughter is now at her father's house in Falkon village of Charfalkon union.

Bibi Salma said, Masroor asked me to be his companion in the movement. I was persuaded to go to the movement. There will be a Hajihat procession, I have been asked to go. But also asked to take my child. Now everyone is there, only Masrur is not. But our situation ahead is bleak. I am somehow now. Allah knows, in what condition I will live with my children.

On the day of the incident, Salma spoke with Masrur. At that time, Masroor was in the shop. He told Salma that he will go to the movement. When Salma asked about eating, she said, I will go to the movement first, then I will eat and chase. Later Salma came to know from her brother that Masroor had died.

On August 5, Masroor was shot and killed in Gazipur along with anti-discrimination student activists in the movement to overthrow the dictatorial government. He is the son of old man Abdul Khalek of Charbaralia village area of ​​Hat union of Patwari under Kamalnagar upazila of Laxmipur. In order to make a living, he also taught in madrasah, poultry farm and electrical equipment business. But could not settle anywhere. Last about seven months ago in Gazipur his father-in-law. Go to Mustafa to do business. Business was doing well there. But he was always active in the movement to overthrow the dictatorial government as the Islamic movement made politics in Bangladesh. Masrul was the organizing secretary of Hat Union branch of Patwari Islami movement.

Masrur's teaching colleague Sirajul Islam Mehraj said that on the day of the incident, Masrur told one of his friends that he was taking someone who had been shot to the hospital. The man who was shot was his friend. After that there was no talk with him. Later his body was found in the mortuary of Shaheed Medical College Hospital in Gazipur. He is believed to have been taken to hospital with gunshot wounds. He hid the incident that day so as not to worry his family or relatives.

Masrur's younger brother Humayun Kabir said, my brother has suffered a lot in life. Self-educated. He also suffered for us. He established a madrasa. After explaining the responsibility of that madrasa to me, he went to Gazipur to do business. My brother died of gunshot wounds. All said, there was a bullet in his body. But after the last bath, two bullet marks were found on his stomach and back.

Masrur's uncle and father-in-law Omar Farooq said that Masrur was not financially independent. Before going to Gazipur, he left his pregnant wife at his father-in-law's house. Now they are spending their days somehow. As time goes by, anxiety is increasing as to how they will proceed. If the government looks up to the family, maybe Masrur's wife will be able to lead a normal life with her son and daughter.

As soon as he asked about Masrur, his old father Abdul Khalek's eyes began to shed tears. He said in a tearful voice, Masroor was better than everyone. He took care of everyone in the family. He died while doing religious work. I am grateful. Death cannot be prevented, even at home he would have died. Family decisions will be made regarding his sons and daughters and wife.

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Incidentally, after Masrur's death, South Temuhani area of ​​Laxmipur district town has been declared as 'Shaheed Masrur' square and written on the Laxmipur-Ramgatti road. On the east side of the road, a big banner was also put up by the Islamic Movement Bangladesh declaring Masroor Square.