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In 1921, Advocate Abdur Rahim was born into a respected Muslim family in the village of Baradi in Koya union of Kumarkhali upazila. His father, the late Munshi Hossain Ali, was a householder by profession. Hossain Ali had two sons, the late Mohammad Abdul Karim and the late Abdur Rahim, and two daughters.
Student life – In his student life Advocate Abdur Rahim left ample proof of accomplishment and talent. His primary education began at Sultanpur Primary School in Koya union, his paternal home. In 1933, in the class-five scholarship examination at Sultanpur Primary School, he stood second within the then Nadia district. After finishing primary education he was admitted to the then United High School [now Kushtia High School] and stood in the matriculation examination in 1938. In 1940 he passed Intermediate in the second division from Krishnanagar Government College. In 1942 he passed BA from the same college in the second division. In 1943-1944 he obtained a BT degree from the Dhaka Teachers' Training College. Then in 1948 he obtained a BL degree in law from the University of Calcutta.
Career – The veteran lawyer Abdur Rahim was endowed with extraordinary talent, and in his working life he possessed a remarkably gifted and many-sided mastery of fields including jurisprudence, politics, social ethics, religious ethics and philosophy. He was immensely patient and tolerant. He never considered anything in life an obstacle. From student life he stepped straight into professional life. Alongside his studies he gave private tuition to meet his own expenses. In 1945 he taught English for some days as a teacher at the Murshidabad Government School. Being exceptionally meritorious and learned, at that time he was offered the post of school inspector, but he did not join it. In 1947-1948 he worked for some days as rector at Bheramara High School. In 1949, taking membership of the Kushtia District Lawyers' Association, he devoted himself to the legal profession.
He began work as a junior to Advocate Mahatab Uddin, and from then until his death he remained regularly engaged in the legal profession with great success. While in the profession, at various times he discharged the duties of GP and PP with a good name. He also served as president of the Dhaka Law College. He was elected president and secretary of the Kushtia District Lawyers' Association more than ten times. He was a member of the Supreme Court Bar Association. For being engaged in the legal profession for more than 50 years, the Bangladesh Bar Council honoured him and presented him with a crest at a simple ceremony on the occasion of his golden jubilee in 2000. In the Kushtia District Lawyers' Association he was the most senior member, a banyan-tree-like figure.
Political life - The political life of the many-sided and politically learned Abdur Rahim was highly successful. In 1962 he took part in the politics of the Muslim League and began his political career. At that time he travelled to Pakistan. In 1978 he joined Jubodal (the youth wing). In 1979 he took charge as founding convener of the BNP. In the same year he was elected a Member of Parliament of the BNP. While an MP he travelled to Japan as a member of a parliamentary committee. Abdur Rahim was a favourite of Kushtia's distinguished personalities, including Moulvi Afsar Uddin and Jehir Mandal of Kushtia.
Social contribution - Abdur Rahim was a kind-hearted man. He was in great demand at the courts of Kushtia, Meherpur and Chuadanga. But by the end of the day, when he returned home, his pocket was almost empty. When he got on a rickshaw to go home, fifteen or twenty poor and needy people would surround him, and he would give money to all of them as far as he could afford. It is widely said that many clerks and junior advocates would take up cases in his name and fight them through him, and that he pleased them all too, helping and cooperating with them in various ways. He fought the cases of many poor people without any fee.
Social reformer - Seeing our neglected, backward social order, Abdur Rahim's heart seemed to weep. So he carried out various developmental works for society. He played a pioneering role in establishing the Islamic University, the construction of the Kushtia-Rajbari road, the Kushtia Chand Sultana Balika Vidyalaya, Kushtia Government Women's College and Kushtia Islamia College, among others. He was the founding professor of Kushtia Law College. He was president, vice-president and general secretary of various educational institutions including Kushtia Muslim High School, Mohini Mohan Vidyapith, Kushtia High School, Sultanpur Mahtabia School, Kushtia Alia Madrasa and Afsar Uddin Balika Vidyalaya. He was the founding president of the Kushtia Court Station Jame Mosque, the Hosenia and the Abdul Karim Dakhil Madrasa. He was a member of the governing committee of Kushtia Government College. He performed the holy Hajj in 2001.
Family life - He was not a man of wealth and luxury. He led an utterly simple life. He had three sons, four daughters and his wife Hosne Ara. His eldest son, Advocate Mahdi Hasan Mukul, is a tax lawyer and a member of the Kushtia Bar; his second son, Iman Hasan Tuhin, now lives permanently in America; his third son, Imam Hasan Tushar, lives at the family home. His eldest daughter, Yachira Mahasena, BSc, is a teacher at the Kushtia Kolkakoli School and is married; his second daughter, Munira Momen, BA (Honours) in Economics, is married; his third daughter, Dr. Humaiya Muslim, MBBS, is married and now lives in America; and his fourth daughter, Mohayana, MA in Political Science, is married. His three nephews and niece are learned members of the Kushtia District Lawyers' Association: Advocate Abdullah Hel Baki, Advocate Jahangir Alam Galib and Salma Akhtar.
Resigning from the Muslim League, he joined the Awami League, inspired by Sheikh Mujib's Six Points, and from 1966 to 1969 his house served as the temporary office of the Six Point movement. The then student leaders Abdur Razzak, Tofayel Ahmed, ASM Abdur Rob, Shahjahan Siraj, Sheikh Shahidul Islam, Manirul Chowdhury, Zinnat Ali, Kazi Aref, Hasanul Haq Inu and many other student leaders stayed and ate at his house in Kushtia. Almost all the meetings of the Chhatra League were held at his residence. Local student leaders such as Sheikh Dalil, Marfat Ali, Samsul Hadi, Bahauddin, Akhtaruzzaman Masum, Murshed Alam Modhu, Jahid Hossain, Abdul Hannan, Fazlul Haq, Samsul Bari, Yakub Ali, Mohiuddin of Gangni, Jowharul Islam, Mirza Ziaul Bari Noman, Shahidul Islam Kislu, Abdul Bari, Nur Alam Ziku, Akkas Ali Manju, Samsul Huda and Abdul Jalil, and many others besides, would often meet and hold secret meetings of the Six Point, and later the One Point, movement.
His house itself was the venue of the secret meetings of the mass movement of '69, which is why the police often raided it. Student leader Abdul Momen lived in that house and encouraged the students in politics from there, for which he had to face humiliation from the administration. Because he was the PP, many leaders of Kushtia did not have to be arrested at that time.
