Wahid Hasyim

Abdul Wahid Hasyim (1 June 1914 – 19 April 1953) was an Indonesian ulama and politician, the eldest son of Hasyim Asy'ari, the founder of Nahdlatul Ulama, and Indonesia's first Minister of Religious Affairs. No Urdu Wikipedia article exists for him; this account is written from the English, Indonesian and Arabic articles and the Wikidata item. ^{1 2 3 4}

He was born at Jombang, East Java, the eldest of the fifteen children of Hasyim Asy'ari and Nafiqah binti Ilyas. He completed the Qur'an at seven, learning from his father, and by fifteen was proficient in the Latin script, Dutch and English without a colonial schooling. He was educated at the Madrasah Salafiyah of his father's Tebuireng pesantren, then at the Pondok Siwalan school in Panji, Sidoarjo, and at the Lirboyo pesantren in Kediri, and took language courses and magazine subscriptions at home. In 1932 he performed the Hajj and remained in Mecca until 1933 for further religious study; on his return, at nineteen, he threw himself into the movement, working above all to raise the quality of the pesantrens. ^{1 2}

He sat on the executive board of Nahdlatul Ulama. Under the Japanese occupation, when Indonesian organisations were banned, he led MIAI, the Supreme Islamic Council of Indonesia, the one Islamic body permitted to operate, and he sat on the Central Advisory Council, on the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence (BPUPK), and on the Preparatory Committee for Indonesian Independence (PPKI). He served as the first Minister of Religious Affairs of the Republic, in 1945 and again from 1949 to 1952, under President Sukarno; the Indonesian article details three terms across successive cabinets and records that he was also general chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama from 1951 until his death. His school of Islam is not recorded in the sources: what they attest is a pesantren formation and organisational and ministerial office, and Wikidata gives Islam in general. ^{1 2 3 4}

In 1939 he married his cousin Solehah — the Indonesian article names her Sholichah Munawwaroh and dates the marriage 1938 — and they had six children, among them Abdurrahman Wahid, who later led Nahdlatul Ulama and became Indonesia's fourth president, and Salahuddin Wahid. On 18 April 1953 the vehicle he was travelling in collided with a truck at Cimindi, Cimahi; he and the NU official Argo Sutjipto were severely injured and reached Borromeus Hospital only after four hours. Abdurrahman Wahid survived the crash; his father died on 19 April 1953, and Sutjipto the following day. He was declared a National Hero of Indonesia. ^{1 2 3}

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