Bony Islam Khan

I hope you are at peace, and your family and friends insha'Allah will know peace as well while grieving your passing. Innalillahi wa innaillaihi wa raji'un.

Student of 2018

As a president of Bangladeshi Student and Alumni Association in Belgium I worked together our students and community to send his dead body to his home country.

The news coverage as follows:

The Bangladeshi and student communities in Belgium are in deep mourning following the untimely death of Boni Islam Khan, a Bangladeshi student who was studying in Brussels. According to a press release from the Bangladeshi Students and Alumni Association in Belgium (BSAAB), Boni felt sudden chest pain late on October 13. A Bangladeshi friend living with him immediately took him to the hospital; however, despite the medical efforts, he sadly passed away that same night.

Following his unexpected passing, the Bangladeshi Students and the Bangladeshi community in Belgium are grieving and have expressed their deep condolences to Boni's family. With the initiative of the Bangladesh Students and Alumni Association and the overall support of the Bangladeshi community in Belgium, all arrangements were made to send Boni's body back to Bangladesh. The association, through discussions with the family, coordinated with senior community members residing in Belgium to ensure that all necessary arrangements were taken care of
On Friday, October 18, after the Jumu'ah prayers, Boni’s Janaja (funeral) prayer was held at the Bangladesh Cultural Centre Jame Mosque in Brussels. The Janaja was attended by around 600 people, including members of the Bangladeshi community from various cities in Belgium, as well as members from other communities. Among those present was the president of the Bangladeshi Students and Alumni Association in Belgium (BSAAB), Mr. Ekram Hossain. In his speech, he expressed his gratitude to all the students studying in Belgium, especially Boni's friends, whose tireless efforts and the support of the entire Bangladeshi community, both directly and indirectly, have been invaluable. He thanked everyone for standing by Boni and creating a unique example of cooperation. He highlighted the community’s unity, saying, "The brotherhood displayed by the Bangladeshi community in standing by Boni is truly commendable. The students living in Belgium are an integral part of the community; every Bangladeshi living Belgium is part of this community and supports one another."
Mr. Ekram also added, "The collective effort of the Bangladeshi Students and Alumni Association in Belgium and the Bangladeshi community in Belgium will strengthen our bond in the future."
Following the funeral, Mr. Mohammad Rejaul Islam, representing the Bangladesh Embassy in Brussels, also delivered a speech.
It has been reported that Boni's body was laid to rest on October 20 in his hometown of Guatola, Shibchar in Madaripur district. Members of the Bangladesh Students and Alumni Association in Belgium participated in an online prayer session after the burial.
Boni Islam Khan was a student of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). His untimely passing has left the Bangladeshi Students and Alumni Association in Belgium, the Bangladesh Embassy, the Bangladeshi community, his friends, and fellow students deeply saddened. Everyone has prayed for the peace of Boni Islam Khan’s departed soul and expressed their deepest condolences to his grieving family. Overall, Boni's family and relatives express their gratitude to all the students studying in Belgium and all Bangladeshi residents in Belgium for creating such an unprecedented example of support, and they pray for everyone.

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My sincere condolences to the family and close friends of our dear dormmate Bony. Our time together in the dorm was short, but enough to know how good and kind your heart was and you will be greatly missed.

Warm, kind, compassionate, thoughtful, curious, inquisitive. The words that come to mind when I think of Bony. The kind of student every teacher hopes for. Such a loss. My heartfelt condolences to Bony's family and friends.

My heartfelt condolences to Bony's family, friends, fellow students and loved ones. He will be forever in our hearts.

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Bony. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and fellow students during this difficult time.
Find support in each other and hold on to the beautiful memories.
The Study Guidance team at VUB

My sincerest condolences to Bony’s family, friends and fellow students. Words are inadequate to express the sorrow we feel for the loss of a young, promising student. Hope that his memories will live on in your hearts.

My heartfelt condolences go out to Bony's family, fellow students and friend of Bony during this time of sorrow . He was a wonderful person and will be deeply missed.

As vice-programme director of the Multilingual Master in Linguistics and Literary Studies (MUMA), I would like to express my heartfelt condolences to Bony's family and friends for the terrible and far too early loss. The MUMA community will fondly remember Bony for the joy, warmth and dedication he radiated. My deepest sympathy goes out to all who have to miss him now, and I hope that your memories of him will bring you comfort in these difficult times.

My deepest condolences to Bony's family and friends during this time of deep sorrow in this "season of mists". The photo of Bony reminded me of the last ode that the English Romantic poet John Keats wrote, the last major work that he completed before he too passed away at a far too young age, also in a foreign land. It is entitled "To Autumn" and I would like to share it with you as a tribute to Bony. We will think of you each time

To Autumn (by John Keats)

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

As Dean of the faculty of Languages & Humanities, as lecturer in the MuMA and MuBA programs, and as a father of two children, I felt extremely sad when I heard of Bony’s unexpected and untimely passing. My thoughts and heart go out to Bony’s parents, family, friends and fellow students. I wish them all the strength and courage it takes to see them through these painful, difficult times. And I hope that, once time has done its healing work, his family and friends will be able to remember Bony with a smile and keep him alive in their thoughts and memories.

None of us could have imagined we’d be writing these messages after your passing, Bony. Your family and friends in Bangladesh and Belgium have loved you and will always love you.
Rest in peace, Bony.

Bony, I won't write about you in the past tense. You are truly a kind, respectful, and warm person. I’m also proud of all you have accomplished in less than two years with us as a student. You are hardworking, dedicated, and still such a lovely person. It has been an absolute pleasure to be your thesis supervisor for that time, and I will remember you fondly.

Rest in peace my beloved brother ❤️

Rest in peace,
He was a good man

He was one of the nicest people I knew. Always warm and welcoming. And a hardworking person.

Bony, I know you're in a better place. Rest in peace, my friend.

May you rest in peace my dear friends. We love you forever. Hope you are safe, happy and peaceful in the good place.

I know you’re in a good place. You were such a good person, full of life. I wish I had spent more time with you. I really regret not giving us chance to be friends since you loved Moroccans and their culture. إن لله وإن اليه راجعون.

May you rest in peace dear Bony. You'll always be a part of our hearts, and your memory will stay with us forever.

He was more than a friend, a brother to me. I will live with all the memories we created together for the rest of my life. See you again.