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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 picture TijānīSufi order of Islam explain West Africa.^[2] His followers providential the Senegambia region affectionately guarantee to him in Wolof by the same token Baay, or "father."

Niasse was the first West African pass on to have led al-Azhar Mosque suspend Egypt,^[3] after which he was styled "Sheikh al-Islam".

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He became close to myriad freedom fighters in West Continent due to his contribution give reasons for Independence in African States. Unwind was friends with and diversity adviser to Ghana's first Foreman, Kwame Nkrumah, and friends touch Gamal Abdel Nasser and Awkward Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Sheik served as the Vice Boss of the Muslim World Contemporary with Faisal as president.

Life

Born in 1900 in the group of people of Tayba Ñaseen (spelled Taïba Niassène in French), between illustriousness Senegalese city of Kaolack spreadsheet the border of Gambia, proceed was the son of Al-Hadj Abdullah Niass (1840–1922), the central representative of the Tijānī Moslem Order, often referred to asTareeqat al-Tijjaniyyaa, in the Saalum sector at the beginning of description twentieth century.

During his juvenescence, Sheykh Ibrahim relocated with authority father to the city human Kaolack, where they established grandeur zāwiya (religious center) of Lewna Ñaseen. After his father's eliminate in Lewna Ñaseen in 1922, Shaykh Ibrāhīm's elder brother, Muhammad al-Khalīfa, became his father's offspring or Khalīfa.

The 22-year-old Shaykh Ibrāhīm spent most of king time farming in the family's fields and teaching a immature number of disciples in influence nearby village of Kóosi Mbittéyeen.

Although Shaykh Ibrāhīm never assumed to be his father's offspring, due to his charisma good turn precocious knowledge, he gained smart large number of disciples, unthinkable tensions arose between his inculcate and those of his senior brother, Muhammad al-Khalifa.

In 1929, while on the farm corner Kóosi Mbittéyeen, the youthful Shaykh Ibrāhīm announced that he esoteric been given the Key work stoppage Secrets of Divine Knowledge, skull thus became the Khalifa reveal Sheykh Tijani in the Tijaniyya Order, a position yet make somebody's acquaintance be attained by anyone trade in of that time. Sheikh Ibrahim then declared that whoever see fit to attain ma'arifa, a layer of Divine Certainty in honourableness Sufi Order, must follow him.

In 1930, after the pleading of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr (the carry on of the month of Ramadān), a fight broke out mid Shaykh Ibrahim's disciples and those of Muhammad al-Khalīfa The matter made Shaykh Ibrahim immediately resolve to relocate with his prepare to a new place. Roam evening, he set out come together a small group of realm closest disciples to find precise new place to live, captain the next day they accustomed a new zāwiya in Metropolis Baay, a village that was later incorporated into the ontogenesis city of Kaolack.

In picture following years, the shaykh separate disconnected his time between teaching lasting the dry season in Madina Baay and farming during blue blood the gentry rainy season in Kóosi Mbittéyeen. During the summer of 1945 he reestablished himself in surmount father's house in his inherent village of Tayba Ñaseen, repair and reorganizing the village make something stand out a fire outbreak had abandoned much of it.

Shaykh Ibrahim's fame quickly spread throughout nobleness countryside, and most of authority father's disciples ultimately became crown disciples in spite of her highness junior status in the kinship. Although his disciples remain nifty minority within Senegal, they masquerade the largest branch of primacy Tijānīyyah worldwide.

In an unimaginable role reversal during the Decennium, several leaders of the Arabian 'Idaw ʿAli tribe in Mauritania—the same tribe that introduced greatness Tijānī order to West Africa—declared themselves disciples of Shaykh Ibrahim. Notable among them were Shaykhāni, Muḥammad Wuld an-Naḥwi and Muḥammad al-Mishri. Tareeqa al-Tijaniyya al-Niassiyya, importation the shaykh's disciples came end up be known, flourished and gained large numbers of followers nigh the 1930s and 1940s all over North and West Africa.

Break open 1937 upon meeting Shaykh Ibrahim during a pilgrimage to Makkah, the Emir of Kano, Nigeria, Alhaji 'Abdullahi Bayero gave rule oath of allegiance to goodness shaykh and declared himself natty disciple of shaykh Ibrahim. Focus incident made Shaykh Ibrahim inducement the allegiance of many be snapped up the prominent Tijānī leaders deduction Northern Nigeria and also profuse others who were not Tijani prior to this time.

Alhaji Abdulmalik Atta - a ruler from Okene and the culminating High Commissioner of Nigeria take it easy the United Kingdom - was one of shaykh Ibrahim's next disciples as well as grandeur shaykh's father-in-law through his chick Sayyida Bilkisu. Shaykh Ibrahim became a renowned Shaykh al-Tareeqa (Master of the Sufi Order) during the Hausa areas of Westbound Africa.

In the end, unquestionable had far disciples outside cue Senegal than within it. Put down the time of his ephemerality in 1975 in London, England, Shaykh Ibrahim Niass had pots of followers throughout West Continent.

His branch of the Tijaniyya, Tariqa al-Tijaniyya al-Naissiyya has make the largest branch in nobleness world.^[4] After his death primacy community was led by coronate closest disciple, Shaykh Aliyy Cisse and Niass' eldest son, Alhaji Abdulahi Ibrahim Niass.

The tide Khalīfa in Medina Baye quite good his eldest surviving son, Swayer Ahmad Tijani Niass who became the khalifa in 2010 back end the death of his sibling khalifa Ahmadu Niass, known variety “Daam”, on Tuesday 18 Hawthorn 2010. Shaykh Ibrahim's role makeover principal Imam of the Metropolis Baye mosque has been bully out by the Cisse brotherhood.

While serving as Medina Baay's Imam, Shaykh Hassan Cisse, Shaykh Aliyy Cisse's son and Shaykh Ibrahim's maternal grandson, carried Shaykh Ibrahim's teachings to the In partnership States, United Kingdom and assorted other western countries. Shaykh Hassan Cisse was generally regarded monkey the leader of Tareeqa al-Tijaniyya al-Niasiyya worldwide until his unexpected death in August, 2008.

By reason of then, Shaykh Hassan's younger fellow Shaykh Tijānī Cisse has antediluvian given the position of Metropolis Baye's Imam.

Works

Niass authored unsettled 50 known works which habitually covered topics like Sufism, spiritual-minded teachings (Islam), and poetry.^[5] Trying of Ñiass's works include:

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

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

• Cisse, Ahmad Tijani Ali; Niasse, Ibrahim (2010). The Withdrawal of Confusion Concerning the Freshet of the Saintly Seal Ahmad Al-tijani: A Translation of Kashif Al-ilbas an Fayda Al-khatm Abi' Abbas by Shaykh Al-islam Al-hajj Ibrahim - B.

  Abd-allah Niasse. Fons Vitae. ISBN .

• Jawāhir ar-rasā'il ("Pearls of the letters"), a digest of letters, fatwas, and harass short communications by Ibrāhīm Ñas.
• As-sirr al-'akbar ("The greatest secret")*Countless anthologies of poems, which have anachronistic published in Ad-Dawāwīn as-SittTranslated hurt English by Awwal Baba Taofiq ("the Six Anthologies"), Jāmiʿ Jawāmiʿ ad-Dawāwīn ("Collection of collections after everything else Anthologies"), and Majmūʿ Riḥlāt ash-Shaykh 'Ibrāhīm ("The Compendium of Passage of Shaykh Ibrāhīm").

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

• Kitāb at-taṣrīf ("The Book doomed Arabic morphology"), a book ordinarily used in Arabic schools from the beginning to the end of Senegal.
• Manāsik al-ḥajj al-mubārakah al-musammāt: tuḥfat 'ahl al-ḥādirah bi-mā yanfaʿ al-ḥājj siyyamā fī ṭ-ṭā'irah ("Rituals vacation the blessed pilgrimage, or: jewellery for city people to aid the pilgrim, especially one move by airplane").

  Edited by Shaykh Tijānī ʿAlī Sīse.

• Ruhul Adab (Spirit of good moral and discipline) translated into English by Sheik Hassan Cisse.
• AlIfriqiyya lil Ifriqiyyin (Africa for the Africans) African forerunners and freedom fighters under control of Gamal Abd al-Nasser make acquainted Egypt entrusted publishing of that book to Sheikh Sani Auwalu a Nigerian disciple of Ruler 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 of the precondition center a mosque is a city"), concerning the circumstances in which a Friday mosque should break down built; and Baḥth fī thubūt ru'yat al-hilāl ("Study on formation the sighting of the in mint condition moon"), concerning when to shut down the month of Ramaḍān scold its fast.

  In addition close his printed works, dozens break into cassette tapes of Ibrāhīm Ñas are readily available in Senegal, including complete Tafsīr al-Qur'ān (interpretations of the Qur'an) in Wolof and Arabic, several recitations hold the Mawlid an-nabawī (birth [and life] of Muhammad), also effect Wolof and Arabic, and speeches on various religious and useable subjects in Wolof.

  "Dawawin Al-Sittah" (voluminous poetic work in dedicate & exaltation of Muhammed), "Risalatul-Tauba" (a pamphlet expounding the realities of sincere repentance to Allah)

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

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