MIGRATION AND COMMENCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES After much opposition and oppression, Shaykh Ibrahim decided to migrate away from Kaolack and find his own settlement due to the difficulties he and his students were experiencing in carrying out their religious and other daily activities. On a fateful morning after the fajr prayers, he informed his students and all those who wish to follow him to leave Kaolack. After obtaining permission from the colonial officers governing Kaolack administrative area, he migrated about 3 miles east of kaolack and camped by a big tree which was to become his home till date. His town is now called Madinatu Kaolack. Since the newly founded abode provided an atmosphere of security and peace he wanted for his students and himself, he focused his attention to fulfill the rites of hajj pilgrimage which he did later the same year. Upon returning back from the pilgrimage, he started the project of building his own mosque, converting people to Islam, educating the Muslims and revival of the sunnah of the Prophet (salla lahu alaihi wa sallam) through the proper understanding of fiqh, Iman and helping them attain the perfect state of Ihsan through the tariqa Muhammadiyya Tijaniyya which he had become its spiritual inheritor and Khalifa. These activities were not only confided within Senegal but throughout North and West African regions. His style, methodology and spiritual zeal had made all and sundry flock to him to quench their thirst from the overflowing flood of knowledge, illuminations, secrets, understanding and perfect state of Ihsan from Shaykh Ibrahim and the tariqa. His distractors were greatly alarmed and disturbed by his success and progress in calling people towards Allah and upliftment of Islam in the surrounding regions and beyond which eclipsed their combined efforts and make them look like amateurs. They connived against him by lying to the French administrator of the region named Bulus that he was trying to build an army of supporters to rebel against the French colonialist, a claim the Shaykh dispelled and was allowed to continue to with his teaching and preaching. ASK YOURSELF WHO IS BAYE?
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 23:28:50 +0000
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