Tehai Madaripur aka Dharampur Narayan is my Dadiahal and about 10 km away Mauna Sharif is my Nanihal where I was born. Therefore, I have been commuting between these two hamlets via Rampur Hari with motorcycle, bicycle and four wheelers, though my late maternal grandfather Maulana Abu Zafar Siddiqui would visit his alone daughter, late Amina Khatoon on foot sometimes.
While entering the path leading to this Muslim dominated village starting from three direction road, we come across some orchards and fields of grain. Only some hundred meters to the east from Patna Sitamarhi National Highway 77 rests our great grandfather late Maulana Ishaq, a pious and religious man known for his piety and handsomeness. He left this transient world for heavenly abode early in his existence.
Adjacent to this graveyard, there is another graveyard about one thousand meters in measurement belonging to the Government of Bihar that is now under occupation of Hindu brothers, who have erected their houses, shops and one temple after the venture of a daily market failed. The conversion of the graveyard to the temple and Hindu owned establishments was facilitated by some respectful personalities from Tehai Madaripur.
Before the old and perhaps first mosque in this settlement, there is a modern chicken shop owned and operated by Mr Ansar. To the west of the mosque some prosperous and thriving business establishments of grocery, building materials, shoes and others exist and exists the ancestral home of the biggest Muslim land owning family looked after by Mr Fakhruddin Sb here.
The three direction road here, which has become four- direction-path, runs to the south passing some fields and graveyards. This village proper starts from a small bridge that was a menace in the past while we would go to the mosque for Friday prayers. Passing dozens of houses including Master Wazul Haq and Master Hashim Sb, we arrive at the school chowk where the chicken shopper Mr Hasnain runs his chicken outlet and grocery shops. Tehai Madaripur Urdu Middle High School exits for a longtime where I might have studied for some months as I still recollect the voice of Master Salam Sb who still passes in front of our house saluting everyone he meets ‘Assalam Alaikum’. A number of our clan houses are lined to the west of one of three paths merging at the school.
The road crossing the Barelvi mosque in the middle of the village goes to Madrasa Tahfizul Quran founded by Maulana Abdul Bari Siddiqui, whose house is situated near this crossing. This crossing too leads to three (Tehai) directions. One goes to Ansari Mohalla where Ansari community is planning to erect a mosque as well as a Madrasa and another one passes Madrasul Banat and Madrasa of Tehai Madaripur. On this very road lie the houses of Maulana Wahid Sb and late Aqeel and his clan. This lane ends near the house of Dr Khursheed and once again the roads diverge to three directions, one to Narma and another to Chhapra.
The road going Chhapra divides at the house of Janab Ali Imam Sb, whose son is a software engineer in Pune and who looks just like a foreigner and he is still a suitable bachelor to be married. One section of this road goes towards my house near Tehai Madaripur Urdu Middle School.
The road between the house of Janab Ali Imam Sahab and the bridge in north passes both Eidgahs, Eidgah and mosque near the house of Master Mohit Sb and another Eidgah at the house of Janab Inam Sb.
The roads from four directions crossing outside the village Tehai Madaripur diverge to Shahpur in the south, Kafen in the east before entering and one direction goes to Nihalpur and then Chhapra Tiraha, where we alight from public transportation coming from Muzaffarpur smart city and fourth largest in Bihar.
I would deal with other features of this ancestral village of mine in other articles and end my article on probable naming of this settlement that as there are multiple Tirahas and one Sufi Buzurg in the Faqeer Toli lived in the past, this village was named Tehai Madaripur and officially known as Dharampur Narayan and Madaripur Karn falling in the development block Minapur, post and police station Rampur Hari about 15 km away from Muzaffarpur. (Hamid Siddiqui)
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