Humayun Ahmed
Mother visits son's grave
Ayesha Fayz, extreme left, mother of the late eminent litterateur Humayun Ahmed, reciting from the Holy Quran beside her son's grave in Nuhash Palli at Pirujali village in Gazipur district yesterday. Photo: Banglar Chokh
Ayesha Fayz, mother of the late eminent litterateur Humayun Ahmed, in her first-ever visit to Nuhash Palli, planted a Talipalm tree near a sculpture, Mother and Child, by the Palli's main gate yesterday. She stayed beside Humayun Ahmed's grave for some time, repeatedly stroking the soil on top of the grave. Reciting from the Holy Quran, she fervently prayed for eternal peace of her departed son's soul. “Allah, you gave honour to Humayun in this world, grant him honour in the hereafter,” she said. Ayesha Fayz arrived at the novelist and filmmaker's favorite retreat at Pirujali village in Gazipur district around noon. Humayun Ahmed's maternal aunt, Rizia Khanam; sister Sofia Haider and her husband Apel Haider; younger sister Roksana Ahmed; brother Ahsan Habib; and other members and relatives of the family accompanied her. Ayesha Fayz offered fateha at the grave and requested all to pray for her son's eternal peace. Later, she and the illustrious storyteller's brothers and sisters spread some soil, brought from the Pirojpur grave of the litterateur's father, Fayzur Rahman Ahmed, around the grave. Prof Md Akhteruzzaman of Mirpur Government Bangla College planted another Talipalm (Corypha Taliera Roxburgh) tree near the grave. Afterwards, Ayesha Fayz and the family went around the Palli and inquired about the well-being of the employees. They again offered fateha at the grave around 3:15pm and then left for Dhaka. Talking to journalists at the Palli, Humayun Ahmed's younger brother, Ahsan Habib, said the Palli would remain as it was now and that it need not be like Shantiniketan. On the case filed in Chittagong over the death of the fiction writer, Ahsan Habib said, “We have been protesting against it. It is a bad culture and a nasty thing to do. It should not be so.” Manager of Nuhash Palli, Saiful Islam Bulbul, said a milad and doa mahfil seeking salvation of the departed soul was held at Humayun Ahmed's Dhanmondi residence, Dakhin Hawa, in the capital after Asr prayers yesterday. Humayun Ahmed, 64, who was a chemistry teacher at Dhaka University before getting fully involved in writing, died at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital in New York on July 19 due to infection in the lungs following two surgeries for colon cancer. His first namaz-e-janaza was held at Jamaica Muslim Centre in New York on July 20. His body was then flown in to Dhaka by an Emirates Airlines flight on July 23. Later, his second namaz-e-janaza was held at the National Eidgah on the High Court premises. He was laid to his eternal rest in a litchi garden in the Palli on July 24.
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