'''Dr. U. Bapputti
Haji''' ( {{lang-ar|'''د.يو.بابدي الحاج'''}} {{lang-ml| '''ഡോ.യൂ. ബാപ്പുട്ടി ഹാജി'''}}, village physician by profession, is the
think tank of [[Malabar]] [[Muslims]] and founder of Southern Indian greatest
Islamic university, [[Darul Huda Islamic University]] [{{cite web
|url= http://www.darulhuda.com/ |title= DARUL HUDA OFFICIAL WEBSITE
|accessdate= 2012-10-23}}], founder leader of Sunni Mahal Federation
(SMF).
==Early life==
Dr.Baputti Haji was born
in 1929 September as son of Kunjaalan Kutti Vaidyar and Puthukkutti
Kunchikkadiumma in [[Chemmad]]. His full name was Kunjavaran Kutti and Baputti
was his nickname. His father was one of the physician families. In childhood
Baputti Haji lived in Islamic nature because he has reputation in [[Chemmad]].
His father Kungalan Kutti forced him to gain Islamic knowledge and Islamic
culture. [{{cite web |url= http://www.ashrafnlkn.tk/ |title=
AshrafNlkn OFFICIAL WEBSITE ]
|accessdate=
2012-10-23}}
After the establishment
of Tirurangadi orphanage, Baputti Haji’s father admitted him in the orphanage.
Kunjalan Kutti was one of the orphanage’s committee members. But,
unfortunately, Kunjalan Kutti called back him thanks to some problems erupted
in committee members. After that Baputti Haji gained the primary education from
his father. When he was six year old, Baputti Haji gained the [[Quran]] study
from Nilimaavukkal Kunchi Usthad’s Madrasa. Baputti Haji entered to his school
life in Nilimavukkal A.M.L.P School. When he was ten years old he gained
education from Tirurangadi A.U.P School. But he paid attention only to the
Islamic knowledge from Tirurnagadi Noorul Islam Madras which he studied the
most famous Islamic books.
In 1943, Baputti Haji
began to study in Parappil Madrsathul Muhammadiyya. In his 13th age, he gained
Islamic knowledge from Vilakkandathil Muhyadheen Kutti Haji and MN Kunjutti
Musliyar by studying like famous Pathu Kithab, Fathul Mueen AND Noorul Absar.
He entered to all types of knowledge in his childhood. After the result of SSLC
he completed the modern education. He expressed his intention to study the medicine and
imbibed the knowledge of [[Sanskrit]] language. In 1914 Baputti Haji admitted
in Arya Vaidyashala College. After the one year duration of study he was
enrolled as village physician.
Baputti Haji wished to
become a student in religious affairs under the well known teachers of that
time. Baputti Haji discussed with C.H Hydrose Musliyar and MA Basheer Musliyar
about Sunni Mahal Federation (SMF) and he spent his lion share of life in
thought provoking discussion about noval model for the religious education
mixed with material subject. [{{cite web |url= ]
http://www.mdiathlangara.tk/
|title= Malik Deenar Islamic Academy OFFICIAL WEBSITE |accessdate=
2012-10-23}}
==Dedication and target==
Dr.U Baputti Haji
understood life way from western readings and many books. He understood the
need of western education as well as modern subject to uplift of society. He
shared the about the education of
[[Muslim]] with his companions like Maulana Quthubi Muhammed Musliyar, Kottumal
Aboobacker Musliyar, Marhoom Kooriyad Thanu Musliyar and Chappanangadi Bappu Musliyar. He gave
birth for new food of thought that creation of new mechanism of education that
will provide both material and non material subject under single umbrella. He
loved the Islamic leaders by his deeds. He possessed spirituality, humanity,
innocence, honesty as well as piousness. Baputti Haji saw the problem of
community as his own problem and did his
best for the surviving.
While the rise of new
organization, [[Muslims]] raised MSF’s problem in their hand, but Baputti Haji didn’t concentrated to this problem. He
only focuses on the Islamic affairs rather than the political and personal
issues. He took decision in very slow pace and with long sight. Baputti Haji
engages in social affairs and insisted that every child should read the Ayyuhal
Valad.
==Family background==
Baputti Haji gave all
rights to family while his essence of services. His special attitude that
moulding up of family is the first step
of his renaissance set apart him from other social workers of his time. He was
strict in implementation of Islamic rule in personal life.
Baputti Haji’s family
include six sons and sevens daughters with his brother’s daughter and sixty-one
granddaughters. He loved every member and tried his best to pay attention to
all deed of his sons and didn’t allow them to wander in market. He encourages
them to enter the venues of speech or religious occasion. He also keen in
agriculture also and encouraged his sons to do like him. He compelled his
children to study modern subjects like [[English]] and mathematics and in
summer vecation in Madras subject.
Baputti Haji adopted poor
children and helped them to study with his own worth. The poor children were
eating and playing with Baputti Haji’s children and he served them as father.
After the education he didn’t allow them to sit in home but insisted them to
work.
When his sons completed
fifteen years, he called them and began advice “ from very this day you have
completed your childhood and now you are matured, so you have to live with your
own responsibility and don’t go to kitchen. You have to keep your eye from non
Mehrams”. Baputti Haji spent money for his child to perform hajj in very
begning of childhood.
==Essence of services==
The relations of
religious service gave him happiness and hard work was symbol of his life.
Baputti Haji made a part o fhis life with prophet’s Sunnath. His polic;y was
one have to becom ea teacher or student or
ahelper of Islamic thoughts. He was a propagator of nice teachings and
find satisfaction from this work.
Dr. Baputti Haji gained
the improvements within a few days . he
thought all problems than other scholars did and lvied with local people. He
wished to live under the tinge of scholars. He carried the duty of general
secretary of Chemmad Darul Huda Islamic Unviersity, state treasurer of Samastha
Kerala Sunni Mahal Federation, Malappuram district treasurer, president of
Chemmad Qidamathul Ilsma Madrasa, executive member of Vidybyasa board,
president of Majlisu Dawathul Islamiyya and treasurer of Tanur Islhul Arabic
college. He travelled in his all duties through the sincere path of
organization. He didn’t create relation with bank among his work and protected
his way of Islam during his social work.
==Caricature of life==
Bapputti Haji’s life
include pretty and peace . He delt with keen intellect in social and religious
affairs . Bapputty haji delt with Organization and institution in his life that
was the doors in his services.
He was a thin man. He put
on white dress. It was his habit in childhood. In his clothes jubbah and a
kerchief in his head as a cap was
prominent Bapputty haji travelled in white Ambassador car in all nook and
corner of Islamic regions in Kerala. He kept life system and time in his
work. He was very amiable and very soft
minded towards children and used to ask children about his home and background.
One day a student was walking close to Baputti Haji, then he took a piece of
paper from his pocket. Baputti Haji asked “what is this?” then student replied
“this is some English words”. Baputti Haji advised him: “it is not better to
write only English words but
firstly study using and meaning. He
encouraged students to speech.
While the improving of
Chemmad Haji discussed with committee members for more progressive Islamic
system. One day the principle of Chemmad
Madras took a piece of midrib of palm leaf from Madrasa’s courtyard. Then
Baputti Haji said: “this is the property of Madras. If we take it for your uses
how we can answer in front of Allah.
Baputti Haji was role
model to every person. He entered to Darul Huda Islamic University in his 55th.
He was the member of samastha. But unfortunately he cant to reach in meeting,
so that he gave up executive membership of samastha. He gave up his career of
physician fearing the loss of piety .
==Life way of organizer==
Baputti Haji was a role
model organizer and spent his lion share of life in service and institution. He
was the warrior of Sunnath Jaamth. There is no example to Baputti Haji in
Islamic history of [[Kerala]].
He is a candle that melts
for social life. His personality and his all services recognized as social
activities. Baputti Haji was treasurer of many institutions and he solved all problems
of money and used it with cares. He used to tell his helpers while they are
going to donate something: “accept donation of pleasant people, because some
people donates with laziness. So that it is not better to give food for
students. He didn’t love the banking system at [[Darul Huda Islamic
University]]. He didn’t wish to that salary from banking. He believed in god’s
help during a financial crisis at Darul Huda Islamic University.
Baputti Haji didn’t
interest in political affairs. He wished to become the [[Muslim]] society with
unity. He encouraged the [[Muslims]] to meet in social affairs and solve it.
Baputti Haji was an active member of [[Muslim league]]. In 1952 he participated
in [[Muslim league]]’s meeting to see Sayyid Bafaqi. He respected all Sayyid
hailing from Panakkad and built a section in [[P.M.S.A Pookoya Thangal]]’s name
at [[Darul Huda Islamic University]].
==Indelible memories==
Baputti Haji expressed
many influences in his life of [[Islamic]] renaissance. The endurances is the
perfect virtue of his life. While the
construction of [[Chemmad]] Madrassa, he wanted for a big building but some
opposed an later the madras improved and needed for five hundred students .
Baputti Haji moulded up an alliance of [[Muslim]] youth and so called Muslim
Yuva Jana Sangam he opposed party of AP Aboobacker Musliyar.
While the improving of
DHIU, some people opposed the institution but later it became the greatest move
in the history of [[Kerala]] Muslim. The AP friction partly captured the city
of Chemmad then he struggled against to them and recaptured his region. In all
services he faced much opposition but he survived it. During the establishment
of MSF, some of his rivals said: there is wing called SYS and there is no need
for the new wing. In Chemmad election for Mahal administration he secured the
thrilling win with majority o f 456 VOTES
==The leader of unity==
Baputti Haji wished to
make calm atmosphere in all sides. He was dreaming a united society and
environment. Baputti Haji was one member of [[Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul
Ulama]]. He believed in it and wished that scholars are sphere of a society.
Baputti Haji can’t suffer the clashes of society in Maslaa. He understood this
as a social problem like the segregation in the translation of holy [[Quran]]
in [[Malayalam]] and the dismissal of scholars from Samastha.
Baputti Haji discussed
with Kantapuram AP Aboobacker Musliyar to realize the unity between two
fractions but that remained as distant one.
==Beginning of thought of
renaissance==
Baputti Haji decided to
bring reformation in society. He saw the needs of education in all sides. He
found time for it and struggle against darkness with campaign for the creation
of region of knowledge. He made new symbol of renaissance and he discussed with
MM Basher Musliyar and CH Hydrose Musliyar.
He thought about the
importance of education and improvement of [[Chemmad]]. He called people and
advised them: “My dear friends, we are [[Muslims]] and have to understand the
Islamic ideas. There is hard need of
propagation in our society as well as the team for purification of our
own society”. This speech influence the hearts of young people of Chemmad.
After that they created an ofganization known “Muslim Yuva Jana sanagam”
baputti Haji brought Vazakkad Saad Musliyar to teach the people about islam.
Gradually this speech
influenced the more number of people and some people saw it very pleasantly,
thy began to werk hard to its victory. People coincided to this calss. Baputti
Haji brought Saad Musliyar in all days to teach the people about islam. The
thought went to deep and they understood about the islam they cooperated ti
Baputti Haji to mould up a new generation o Islamic scholars in their region.
MM Basheer Musliyar and
Hydrose Musliyar was good companion of Islam. If we look the history of
[[Chemmad]], we can see the reputation and the sharing of Baputti Haji there.
==Realization of Islamic
state==
Baputti Haji’s dreamrealized within few days. He
molded up the generation of educative people by the youth and their patents to
Islam. Mahals are the certain region of [[Muslim]] [[Kerala]], he was his Mahal
rarely and understood that there are many needs and many improvements he said:
“unity is the spear of the society and when it disintegrate the sociery will be
destroyed. Baputti Haji brought the Islamic culture in his Mahal through this
way we can trace the Islamic ways.
Baputti Haji tried to
improve [[Chemmad]], so that he gave them water and another necessary things.
Baputti Haji created a group under the Qidamathu Islam for improvements. It
helped them to collect distribution from [[Chemmad]]. Baputti Haji discussed to
his native people about improvements.
From his reformation in
1962, he laid foundation for new organization called “Ithihadul Islam Sangam”
to teach the new generation the ideal ideas of [[Islam]]. In 1975, he gave
birth to new organization named as Jamiyyathul Muhmineen and in 1976, to SMF.
At last due to his work, there took new changes and it paved path for new
Islamic based state.
==Birth of Sunni Mahal
Federation (SMF)==
Baputti Haji was the
founder of Mahal organization and he was accompanied by the MM Bahseer Musliyar
and CH Hydrose Musliyar. In April 1976, there was held two conference of
Samastha at Edaukkula and Chemmad and in both conference the new organization
to coordinate the Mahal was the main agenda. Eventually in 26th April 1976,
Sunni Mahal Federation came to existence at [[Chemmad]] North zone conference.
After a year from the
establishment new committee, in which Baputti Haji was treasurer, came to
power. Edakkara, Kalikavu Mancheri, [[Malappuram]], Kottakkal, Tirurangadi,
Kondotti, Arikkode, Tanur, Tirur, Edappal, Ponnani, Kuttipuam and
Perinthalmannna were the main place of
SMF.
==Birth of Darul Huda
Islamic University==
Baputti Haji decided to
bring society to further studies and acknowledged the deficiency of old
education system. Baputti Haji, Basheer Musliyar and CH Hydrose Msuliyar
decided to include the modern pattern of education with primitive style of
Dars. In 1962, they put this experiment in Kondotty Darse and it becomes
thrilling victory and morale booster. They brought further changes by teaching
[[English]], [[Arabic]] and [[Urdu]].
In 1980 under the Sunni
Mahal Federation gave the novel model dares in Vengara, Mabbpura, Kottakkal,
Nediurup and Kadalundi. In this time Haji and other scholars thought about a
new foundation that will imbibe a new education system. In 25th December 1983,
they laid foundation stone for [[Darul Huda Islamic University]].
==Darul Huda Islamic
University under the Baputti Haji==
Baputti Haji’s dream
about [[Darul Huda Islamic University]] was to mould up new generation of
scholars, well equipped and possessed good command in three international
languages, [[English]], [[Arabic]] and [[Urdu]], and native language of
[[Malayalam]]. In a morning of 1983five persons including MM Basheer Musliyar,
CH Hyrose Musliyar, Dr. U Baputti Haji and Chemmukkal Kunfapu Haji and Pulikkod
Saydalavi Haji gathered in Kottkkal MA Tourist Home and decided about further
plan about [[Darul Huda Islamic University]].
Firstly Haji and
companions were seeking for land to build an academy. They travelled in many
regions seeking good site and at last they found at [[Chemmad]]. In 25th
December 1983 foundation stone was laid and in 25th June 1986 first admission
was don. In 1987 January 22, MM Basheer Musliyar left the mortal world and it
became a great blow on Haji.
[[Darul Huda Islamic
University]] entered to its more successfully period and in first batch there
were eighty students. Baputti Haji encouraged student to speech in various
languages and to write for magazines published from the outer states. He was
also very anxious in the backwardness of northern muslim, so he sent a team to
propagate them including Dr. Bahahudden Nadwi and other scholars. Following to
this travel and report submitted by aforementioned scholars, he set up new Urdu
National Medium.
==Departure==
Baputti Haji, the yuva
turkey of Malabar went to glory in 22nd July 2003 at his own residence. His
mortal body was buried In [[Darul Huda Islamic University]] campus.