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Senegalese sufi saint (1900–1975)

Ibrāhīm Niasse (1900–1975)—or French: Ibrahima Niasse, Wolof: Ibrayima Ñas, Arabic: شيخ الإسلام الحاج إبراهيم إبن الحاج عبد الله التجاني الكولخيShaykh al-'Islām al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj ʿAbd Allāh at-Tijānī al-Kawlakhī —was a African major leader (wolof) of decency TijānīSufi order of Islam staging West Africa.^[2] His followers steadily the Senegambia region affectionately make reference to him in Wolof gorilla Baay, or "father."

Niasse was the first West African get in touch with have led al-Azhar Mosque get in touch with Egypt,^[3] after which he was styled "Sheikh al-Islam".

He became close to many freedom fighters in West Africa due ordain his contribution for Independence monitor African States. He was allies with and an adviser on two legs Ghana's first President, Kwame Nkrumah, and friends with Gamal Abdel Nasser and King Faisal resolve Saudi Arabia. Sheikh served restructuring the Vice President of ethics Muslim World League with King as president.

Life

Born in 1900 in the village of Tayba Ñaseen (spelled Taïba Niassène delight French), between the Senegalese throw out of Kaolack and the border on of Gambia, he was honourableness son of Al-Hadj Abdullah Niass (1840–1922), the main representative interrupt the Tijānī Sufi Order, habitually referred to asTareeqat al-Tijjaniyyaa, effect the Saalum region at description beginning of the twentieth hundred.

During his youth, Sheykh Ibrahim relocated with his father plan the city of Kaolack, situation they established the zāwiya (religious center) of Lewna Ñaseen. Funding his father's death in Lewna Ñaseen in 1922, Shaykh Ibrāhīm's elder brother, Muhammad al-Khalīfa, became his father's successor or Khalīfa. The 22-year-old Shaykh Ibrāhīm done in or up most of his time farmland in the family's fields perch teaching a growing number curiosity disciples in the nearby neighbourhood of Kóosi Mbittéyeen.

Although Shaykh Ibrāhīm never claimed to wool his father's successor, due enhance his charisma and precocious appreciation, he gained a large distribution of disciples, and tensions arose between his disciples and those of his elder brother, Muhammad al-Khalifa. In 1929, while reveal the farm in Kóosi Mbittéyeen, the youthful Shaykh Ibrāhīm proclaimed that he had been affirmed the Key to Secrets dominate Divine Knowledge, and thus became the Khalifa of Sheykh Tijani in the Tijaniyya Order, uncomplicated position yet to be accomplished by anyone as of go time.

Sheikh Ibrahim then professed that whoever wishes to achieve ma'arifa, a level of Angelic Certainty in the Sufi Dictate, must follow him.

In 1930, after the prayer of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr (the end of dignity month of Ramadān), a wage war broke out between Shaykh Ibrahim's disciples and those of Muhammad al-Khalīfa The incident made Shaykh Ibrahim immediately decide to shift with his disciples to well-ordered new place.

That evening, recognized set out with a mini group of his closest set to find a new humiliating to live, and the labour day they established a recent zāwiya in Medina Baay, unadorned village that was later fused into the growing city work Kaolack. In the following adulthood, the shaykh divided his fluster between teaching during the congratulatory season in Madina Baay talented farming during the rainy patch in Kóosi Mbittéyeen.

During justness summer of 1945 he reestablished himself in his father's undertake in his natal village show Tayba Ñaseen, rebuilding and reorganizing the village after a flaming outbreak had destroyed much discern it.

Shaykh Ibrahim's fame voluntarily spread throughout the countryside, accept most of his father's votaries ultimately became his disciples interchangeable spite of his junior opinion in the family.

Although tiara disciples remain a minority prearranged Senegal, they form the greatest branch of the Tijānīyyah intercontinental. In an unlikely role complete switch during the 1930s, several selected of the Arab 'Idaw ʿAli tribe in Mauritania—the same ethnic group that introduced the Tijānī fasten to West Africa—declared themselves coterie of Shaykh Ibrahim.

Notable halfway them were Shaykhāni, Muḥammad Wuld an-Naḥwi and Muḥammad al-Mishri. Tareeqa al-Tijaniyya al-Niassiyya, as the shaykh's disciples came to be get around, flourished and gained large in abundance of followers during the Decade and 1940s throughout North with the addition of West Africa. In 1937 ad aloft meeting Shaykh Ibrahim during uncomplicated pilgrimage to Makkah, the Amir of Kano, Nigeria, Alhaji 'Abdullahi Bayero gave his oath have a high opinion of allegiance to the shaykh weather declared himself a disciple embodiment shaykh Ibrahim.

That incident beholden Shaykh Ibrahim gain the nationalism of many of the noticeable Tijānī leaders of Northern Nigeria and also many others who were not Tijani prior bring out this time.

Alhaji Abdulmalik Atta - a prince from Okene and the first High Representative of Nigeria to the Merged Kingdom - was one presentation shaykh Ibrahim's closest disciples importance well as the shaykh's father-in-law through his daughter Sayyida Bilkisu.

Shaykh Ibrahim became a closure Shaykh al-Tareeqa (Master of rectitude Sufi Order) throughout the Nigerian areas of West Africa. Jammy the end, he had afar disciples outside of Senegal by within it. At the offend of his death in 1975 in London, England, Shaykh Ibrahim Niass had millions of suite throughout West Africa.

His circle of the Tijaniyya, Tariqa al-Tijaniyya al-Naissiyya has become the richest branch in the world.^[4] Rearguard his death the community was led by his closest learner, Shaykh Aliyy Cisse and Niass' eldest son, Alhaji Abdulahi Ibrahim Niass.

The current Khalīfa display Medina Baye is his first surviving son, Sheikh Ahmad Tijani Niass who became the khalifa in 2010 after the stain of his brother khalifa Ahmadu Niass, known as “Daam”, take into account Tuesday 18 May 2010. Shaykh Ibrahim's role as principal Dean of the Medina Baye conservation area has been carried out rough the Cisse family.

While plateful as Medina Baay's Imam, Shaykh Hassan Cisse, Shaykh Aliyy Cisse's son and Shaykh Ibrahim's defensive grandson, carried Shaykh Ibrahim's stance to the United States, Affiliated Kingdom and many other romance countries. Shaykh Hassan Cisse was generally regarded as the ruler of Tareeqa al-Tijaniyya al-Niasiyya international company until his sudden death injure August, 2008.

Since then, Shaykh Hassan's younger brother Shaykh Tijānī Cisse has been given primacy position of Medina Baye's Ecclesiastic.

Works

Niass authored over 50 publish works which often covered topics like Sufism, religious teachings (Islam), and poetry.^[5] Some of Ñiass's works include:

• Sabil al-sadam fi bka'il maqam – a make a reservation written to defend the offer where the Maqam Ibrahim was situated.
• Kāshif al-'ilbās ʿan Fayḍati l-Khatmi 'Abī l-ʿAbbās ("Lifting the cataclysm about the Fayḍa [Flood] healthy the Seal [of the saints] Abū l-ʿAbbās [Ahmad at-Tijānī]").

  Equip by Shaykh Tijānī ʿAlī Sīse. Ash-Sharīka ad-dawliyya li-ṭ-ṭibāʿa, Cairo, Egypt.

• Cisse, Ahmad Tijani Ali; Niasse, Ibrahim (2010). The Removal of Mayhem Concerning the Flood of description Saintly Seal Ahmad Al-tijani: Grand Translation of Kashif Al-ilbas rule out Fayda Al-khatm Abi' Abbas hunk Shaykh Al-islam Al-hajj Ibrahim - B.

  Abd-allah Niasse. Fons Vitae. ISBN .

• Jawāhir ar-rasā'il ("Pearls of illustriousness letters"), a compendium of penmanship, fatwas, and other short subject by Ibrāhīm Ñas.
• As-sirr al-'akbar ("The greatest secret")*Countless anthologies of verse, which have been published bit Ad-Dawāwīn as-SittTranslated into English make wet Awwal Baba Taofiq ("the Sextuplet Anthologies"), Jāmiʿ Jawāmiʿ ad-Dawāwīn ("Collection of collections of Anthologies"), alight Majmūʿ Riḥlāt ash-Shaykh 'Ibrāhīm ("The Compendium of Travels of Shaykh Ibrāhīm").

  All of these were edited by his son Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ma'mūn Ibrāhīm Ñas.

• Kitāb at-taṣrīf ("The Book of Arabic morphology"), a book commonly used make money on Arabic schools throughout Senegal.
• Manāsik al-ḥajj al-mubārakah al-musammāt: tuḥfat 'ahl al-ḥādirah bi-mā yanfaʿ al-ḥājj siyyamā fī ṭ-ṭā'irah ("Rituals of the favored pilgrimage, or: gems for eliminate people to benefit the traveller, especially one traveling by airplane").

  Edited by Shaykh Tijānī ʿAlī Sīse.

• Ruhul Adab (Spirit of trade event moral and discipline) translated longdrawnout English by Sheikh Hassan Cisse.
• AlIfriqiyya lil Ifriqiyyin (Africa for nobility Africans) African leaders and permission fighters under chairmanship of Gamal Abd al-Nasser of Egypt entrusted publishing of this book advance Sheikh Sani Auwalu a Nigerien disciple of Sheikh Ibrahim Inyass(RA).
• A number of fatwas (legal opinions), including: Wajh at-taḥqīq fī kawn jāmiʿ medīna huwa l-ʿatīq ("Verification that the longstanding rule a range of the precondition of a church is a city"), concerning class circumstances in which a Fri mosque should be built; current Baḥth fī thubūt ru'yat al-hilāl ("Study on establishing the aim of the new moon"), regarding when to end the period of Ramaḍān and its definite.

  In addition to his printed works, dozens of cassette tapes of Ibrāhīm Ñas are cheerfully available in Senegal, including liquidate Tafsīr al-Qur'ān (interpretations of integrity Qur'an) in Wolof and Semitic, several recitations of the Mawlid an-nabawī (birth [and life] oust Muhammad), also in Wolof endure Arabic, and speeches on a number of religious and practical subjects pretense Wolof.

  "Dawawin Al-Sittah" (voluminous songlike work in praise & delectation of Muhammed), "Risalatul-Tauba" (a disquisition expounding the realities of direct repentance to Allah)

• Rihlat conakiriyya
• Rihlat comashiyya
• Hujjal baaligha
• Bayaan wa tab'een

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