Editing Bengali language movement (section)

===Fazlur Rahman's proposal ===
Since the partition of the country in 1947, the Union Minister representing East Pakistan [[Fazlur Rahman (politician)|Fazlur Rahman]] campaigned for the implementation of Bengali language written in Arabic script (Bengali language with the "Hurful Qur'an"). At the Nikhil Pakistan Teachers' Conference held in Karachi on 29 December 1948, Fazlur Rahman proposed to write Bengali in Arabic script for the sake of Islamization of the language. East Bengal Provincial Education Department Secretary Fazle Ahmad Karim Fazli was one of the main initiators of the effort to introduce the Arabic alphabet in Bengal. Both Karim Fazli and Fazlur Rahman established a society called 'Hurful Qur'an Samity' with a Maulana named Zulfikar Ali of Chittagong and tried to form a movement to introduce Arabic letters in Bengal through him. Abdul Hakim, the former director of the East-Bengal Education Department said;  "Some funny legends are heard in Dhaka about a Bengali Wazir Sahib's own knowledge of Urdu. He wanted to fulfill his ardent desire to beautify the in order to be admired by the all-powerful Urdu Mahal of the Centre. For this purpose, a sum of Rs. 35,000 per annum for the publication of books was arranged to hand over the central sanction to the aforesaid Provincial Education Secretary."<ref>{{cite web |script-title=bn:আরবি অক্ষরে বাংলা শিক্ষাদানের ষড়যন্ত্র - (স্বাধীনতা আন্দোলনের গােড়াপত্তন) |url=https://songramernotebook.com/archives/66029 |website=Songramer Notebook |access-date=7 December 2022 |date=21 July 2019 |title=Site is undergoing maintenance }}</ref> In response, [[Muhammad Shahidullah]] opposed the proposal, fearing further complications, and advocated making Bengali unchanged as the state language of East Bengal and one of the state languages of Pakistan.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Umar |first1=Badruddin |script-title=bn:পূর্ব বাংলার ভাষা আন্দোলন ও তৎকালীন রাজনীতি (East Bengal's language movement and contemporary politics) |date=1970 |publisher=[[Anandhara Prakashan]] |url=https://doc.liberationwarbangladesh.net/books/fnes/#p=204 |pages = 185–187 |access-date=5 May 2022|language=bn }}</ref>