Convicted war criminal Ghulam Azam will be buried at his Moghbazar family graveyard today (Saturday).
The janaza will be held after Zohr prayers at Baitul Mukarram national mosque. He will be buried following the lone janaza.
Within 14 hours of the death, his family members came up with another story of his last wish.
Ghulam Azam’s fourth son Abdullahil Aman Azmi on Friday evening said he would conduct his father’s namaz-e-janaza according to his last wish. Aman said the decision had been made at a family meeting.
“Before his death father said his eldest son Abdullahil Mamun Azmi would conduct the janaza. If he is not available then Motiur Rahman Nizami or Delawar Hossain Sayedee will conduct it,” he said.
“As I told him that Mamun was living abroad and might not manage to come in time, he named Nizami and Sayedee. I told him that they were in jail and might not be available. Then he asked me to conduct the janaza.
“Our family members also wanted me to conduct the janaza. So, we did not apply to the government to realese Nizami and Sayedee on parole,” he said.
However, after Ghulam Azam’s death was formally announced on Thursday night, his lawyer Tajul Islam told the Dhaka Tribune that Ghulam Azam had wished that the janaza be conducted by incumbent Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami; if not possible, then Delawar Hossain Sayedee.
However, when contacted yesterday evening he said: “We are not going to seek their parole as his [Ghulam Azam] family finds it unrealistic.”
Ghulam Azam, who was sentenced to 90 years imprisonment for committing crimes against humanity during the Independence War, died on Thursday at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
The 92-year-old Jamaat guru died at 10:10pm, Brig Gen (retd) Abdul Majid Bhuiyan, director of the BSMMU, told reporters at 11:55pm.