Poverty and family duties kept many of them from learning to read the Quran as children. Now, past fifty, more than fifty working people in Kamarkhanda upazila, Sirajganj, are spelling out its verses every evening and learning to perform the five daily prayers correctly.
On Friday night at Kamarkhanda Upazila Central Jame Mosque, 42 elderly learners who completed a free Quran course in the Madani method, run by the Sheikh Abdus Salam Foundation, were given copies of the Quran. For more than a year the mosque's imam, Abdul Momen, taught these day labourers, small traders and vegetable sellers.
In a lottery at the event, a travel agency, Sam Travels and Tours, gave 70-year-old Shafiqul Islam Tara a free Umrah pilgrimage.
Maulana Qari Muaz Nomani, a director of the Bangladesh Quran Education Board, said this was the second batch, whose classes began on 9 July 2025. Lessons run every day from after the Maghrib prayer until the call to Isha, and the learners came regularly after a full day's work. Three months remain for this batch; a third will follow, and the organisers plan to keep the free programme going.
Kamarkhanda's assistant commissioner (land) Abdulla Al Mamun, Maulana Qari Md Muaz Moha, director of the foundation's adult Quran education programme, and Hafez Md Rafiqul Islam, secretary of the Belkuchi Olama Oikya Parishad, were among those present.
This report is based on reporting by Ittefaq's Sirajganj correspondent.
Photo: Youseftarekyahia / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Source: Ittefaq
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