the town of Itawah near Agra
Zamir-ul-Hasan was the only male child left in the family after his elder brother’s sad demise. Syed Zamir-ul-Hasan’s ancestors hailed from a town Shooshter (pronounced as Shuster in India & Pakistan), now in Iran’s mainly Arabic, oil rich Khuzestan Province closed to the Iraqi border. Approximately, 4 centuries ago, his ancestors migrated from Shuster along with Qazi Syed Noor Ullah Shusteri (Shaheed-e-Salis – The 4th Martyr), to Agra.
In Itawah, India, 21st Ramadan Majlis and Procession was first organized by his maternal uncle and Zamir-ul-Hasan was one of the organizers. It was this maternal legacy which Syed Zamir-ul Hasan Moosvi brought to Karachi in 1947.
How The Procession Began
The first ever central Majlis and Procession marking the martyrdom anniversary of Hazrat Ali (A.S) was organized in the history of Karachi at his initial residence at Khemchand building near the now DJ Science College, and SM Law College, Burns Road. Allama Rashid Turabi, Maulana Mustafa Johar, Mualana Ibn-e-Hasan Jarchwi, Mufti Jafar Husain etc. etc. were among the many scholars who addressed those Majalis.
the 21st Ramadan Majlis and Procession
Later, in early 1950s, the 21st Ramadan Majlis and Procession had already assumed shape as an institution of learning and mourning,
was transferred to and organized in Jahangir Park,
near the Empress Market, the center and hub of the capital. Allama Ibn-e-Hasan Jarchvi,
one of the highest-ranking members of the Muslim League (founding party of Pakistan), was a prominent and sine quo non speakers
of this congregation at the Jahangir Park.
The Procession then, was mainly a non matami (non-chest beating / non self-flagellating), and its fundamental features included sermons, speeches and nohas by prominent figures during the entire route, from Jahangir Park, to the termination point, Bara Imambara, Kharadar, at Iftar time.
the instructions of the Federal Government
In 1961, the venue, on the instructions of the Federal Government, was again shifted to the present center of Karachi’s mourning congregations,
Nishtar Park.Among the primary speakers at
Nishtar Park on 21st Ramadan’s Majalis since then were; Maulana Mohammad Naqi, Mufti
Naseer-ul-Ijtehadi, and Allama Talib Jauhari.
Maulana Mohammad Naqi addressed the 21st Ramadan Majalis at Nishter Park for almost 25 consecutive years followed by Allama Talib Jauhari, for almost 2 decades.