Mahayasi Begum Rokeya is a pioneer of women's awakening

Mahiyasi Begum Rokeya, a pioneer of women's awakening, especially a pioneer of Muslim women's awakening, was born on 9 December 180 in the village of Payraband in Rangpur district. He grew up with family obligations from an early age. Through her various compositions, she showed the way to the light of Muslim women at that time. We notice that Rokeya was born in a besieged aristocratic Muslim family but was revived only by her husband's courage. Later he found a wide path for social reform and development of free thinking and jumped into the wider social reform. In 185, he received his English education from the Bengali and European governors in the company of his elder sister Karimunnesa. In 1896, she married Khan Bahadur Syed Sakhawat Hossain, a native of Bhagalpur in the Indian state of Bihar.

After marriage, two daughters were born, but one died at the age of four months and the other at the age of five months. When her husband Syed Sakhawat Hossain passed away in 1909, she was buried at Bhagalpur. Later Begum Rokeya established a school there with only 5 students. She left Bhagalpur in 1910 and moved to Calcutta and in 1911 she established the Sakhawat Memorial Girls' School there. At that time Muslim men and women, especially women, lost their education, literature and culture when they were confined inside the house, began to live as captives with only some Arabic education and became accustomed to fatwa, scrubbing and feasting with distorted interpretations of religion.

At that moment Begum Rokeya became a defendant and established herself as an enlightened man. At that time, women find the wide path of liberation in the path shown by him and try to walk the enlightened path shown by Rokeya themselves. Begum Rokeya never hesitated to dedicate her life to the pursuit of various reforms in the society through self-realization. Especially in the case of illiteracy, mis-reform, veil, captivity, backwardness of women, she established herself in a strong position. "Lest people say something," she said, pointing a finger at the backward women in the Muslim society. She has become a vocal opponent of the enslavement and blockade of women's society, especially in the name of the veil.

At one stage, she dedicated her life to modern education and initiation of women in the society and to establish women in the society with human dignity. Through various writings, Begum Rokeya has shown the way for women to come out of captivity to protect the rights of women. In his books 'Matichur', 'Abhrodh Basini', 'Padmarag' etc., the movement of captivity of women nation that we see is a protest form of the entire women's society. Begum Rokeya said in the introduction of the book Aborodhabasini- “We have become accustomed to being under siege for a long time. ... if the fisherman is asked if the stench of rotten fish is good or bad - what will he answer? Married women also use veils against masculine wives like Bajikar Vanumati. The more curtains you can cover and the more you can hide in the corner of the house like an owl, the more noble he is. ” Despite being imprisoned in such a fence at that time, Begum Rokeya did not care about any obstacle in front of the Muslim women. From the establishment of schools for girls to the establishment of various women's organizations, she addressed the first Bengal Women's Education Conference on 19 February 1928 and read the essay Educational Ideates for the Modern Indian Girl at the Fifth Bengali Women's Education Conference in 1931, presiding over the Health and Children's Exhibition at Calcutta Town Hall.

The reading of an essay entitled 'Shishu Palan' and its subsequent publication in the Bengali Muslim Sahitya Patrika bear witness to his great courage. Begum Rokeya was aware of the society from her childhood, due to which no obstacle could hinder her movement. The knowledge he sought from the inner court was very difficult for the daughter of a Muslim family at that time. Growing up with indomitable courage, Begum Rokeya did not compromise against the exploitation-deprivation, oppression, famine-poverty and imperialist oppression of India during the British rule.

Permanent settlement, language reform, education and literary culture when pushing Muslim society backwards; At that time, he became a protestant against all this and took a strict stand on the one hand and writing on the other. We can know how much Begum Rokeya was devoted to her work and how much she cared for the schools established by her by reading letters written to her friends, relatives and well-wishers at different times. For example, in a letter written to Mohsena Rahman, we note that he wrote: “Mona of my affection, God bless you. I am happy to receive your message.

Boy! I would be more than happy to send four or five rupees to the school fund without your consent. One person is collecting donations for the school from far away Rangoon - he sent 26 rupees last month, this time he sent 59 rupees six annas. ” In another letter to Mary, we notice: “I have nowhere to go in the summer. This is the calculated office work related to the school, who will do these things, so I can't leave the school even if I get an invitation from heaven. ” Evidence of Begum Rokeya's deep love for the school is evident in her numerous letters about the school.

The role that Begum Rekeya has left in the contemporary Muslim society in various social movements including continuous struggle, establishment of schools, education movement is still strong today. Her efforts to bring about a revolutionary change in the Muslim society in the Indian subcontinent continue to set a unique example in the Muslim women's society even today. That is why Begum Rokeya is still a clear statement to the entire women's society.