Mosharraf asked Sharif information about bridges and culverts of Bangladesh in order to hamper Pakistani occupation army's movement. At the end of June, 1971, Shahadat Chowdhury and Habibul Alam came to Sharif's house with a letter from Sector-2 commander Major Khaled Mosharraf. Sharif and his friend Sajedur Rahman collected and sent money to the freedom fighters. This later became one of the most important publications about the War of Liberation. During the war, Imam's wife Jahanara Imam wrote a diary on her feelings about the struggle. Many joined the liberation struggle, including Imam's elder son Shafi Imam Rumi, who joined the Mukti Bahini to become a Mukti Joddha (Freedom Fighter). In 1971, following the Pakistan army crackdown on 25 March, the Bangladesh Liberation War broke out. In 1948 he married Jahanara Imam, whom he met in Rangpur while studying at Carmichael College.
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