Life Born in 1900 in the village of Tayba Ñaseen (spelled - TopicsExpress



          

Life Born in 1900 in the village of Tayba Ñaseen (spelled Taïba Niassène in French), between the Senegalese city of Kaolack and the border of Gambia, he was the son of Allaaji Abdulaay Ñas (1840–1922), the main representative of the Tijānī Sufi Order, often referred to asTareeqat al-Tijjaniyyaa, in the Saalum region at the beginning of the twentieth century. During his youth, Sheykh Ibrahim relocated with his father to the city of Kaolack, where they established the zāwiya (religious center) of Lewna Ñaseen. After his fathers death in Lewna Ñaseen in 1922, Shaykh Ibrāhīms elder brother, Muhammad al-Khalīfa, became his fathers successor or Khalīfa. The 22-year-old Shaykh Ibrāhīm spent most of his time farming in the familys fields and teaching a growing number of disciples in the nearby village of Kóosi Mbittéyeen. Although Shaykh Ibrāhīm never claimed to be his fathers successor, due to his charisma and precocious knowledge, he gained a large number of disciples, and tensions arose between his disciples and those of his elder brother, Muhammad al-Khalifa. In 1929, while on the farm in Kóosi Mbittéyeen, the youthful Shaykh Ibrāhīm announced that he had been given the Key to Secrets of Divine Knowledge, and thus became the Khalifa of Sheykh Tijani in the Tajaniyya Order, a position yet to be attained by anyone as of the time. Sheikh Ibrahim then declared that whoever wishes to attain maarifa, a level of Divine Certainty in the Sufi Order must follow him. In 1930, after the prayer of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr (the end of the month of Ramadān), a fight broke out between Shaykh Ibrahims disciples and those of Muhammad al-Khalīfa The incident made Shaykh Ibrahim to immediately decided to relocate with his disciples to a new place. That evening, he set out with a small group of his closest disciples to find a new place to live, and the next day they established a new zāwiya in Medina Baay, a village that was later incorporated into the growing city of Kaolack. In the following years, Shaykh divided his time between teaching during dry season in Madina Baay and farming during raining season in Kóosi Mbittéyeen. During the summer of 1945 he reestablished himself in his fathers house in his natal village of Tayba Ñaseen, rebuilding and reorganizing the village after a fire outbreak destroyed much of it. Go shehu
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 04:53:23 +0000

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