Tuesday 26 July 2022

SHAYKH SHARĪF ABDU-L MAJĪD (AGEGE, LAGOS)

Written by: Sīdī Muhammad ibn Sheikh Abdullah al-Jayjūbī 

Translated by: AbdulAzeez Sadeeq


Sheriff Abdulmajid bn Muhammad bn Ahmad bn Ibrahim al-Hasaniy RTA is from the offspring of our master, Muhammad Zhul Nafs al-Zakiyyah. He is originally an Arab from Sudan and then became a Nigerian Hausa by place he lived and language he spoke.

Sheriff Abdulmajid was born when his mother was visiting her people in the town of Fashir at the turn of the 20th Century. He studied the knowledge of the fundamentals and branches from many Sheikhs, the most prominent of whom is Allamah al-Faqih Yusuf al-Sudaniy and Sayyid Allamah Sheriff al-Idrisiy Muhammad bn Abdullah al-Wadawiy al-Tijaniy who was an uncle to Sheriff Abdulmajid.

He took the Tariqa Tijaniya after he saw our master Sheikh Ahmad Tijani RTA in a dream. After that, he encountered some difficulties until he chose to emigrate for the sake of his religion and he settled in Lagos Nigeria.

He met Sheikh Ibrahim Inyas RTA in 1950. The Sheikh went out with the intention to perform hajj on behalf of the creation and the plane had a stopover at Lagos. Sheikh Ibrahim RTA stayed with Sheriff Abdulmajid before anyone else. In this respect, the Sheikh RTA says in his Rihla (Travelogue):

            We flew to Lagos reciting the zikr. Glory be to He who took his servant
              At night from the haram to the al-Aqsa mosque in wakefulness
               My heart was full of delight when I met Abdulmajid and my state was purified
               The people of Agege are indeed our reality. They were continuously honouring and loving us

Allah has distinguished Sheriff Abdulmajid with respect to Sheikh Ibrahim Inyas RTA with numerous and uncountable specialties in general, but  for this particular meeting, the following are some of them;

1. He was the first to meet Sheikh among his senior companions

2. He was fortunate that Sheikh lodged with him in his house to the exclusion of any other. The leaders, elders and the wealthy people would have chosen another place for Sheikh had they any choice in the matter.

3. He was fortunate that Sheikh stayed a very long time with him and during that period, Sheikh said to him, you are my beloved, my khalifa, I lodged with you out of my free will and your house is my house.

Then Sheikh did Tajdid (Renewal) for him and attested to the fact that Sheriff Abdulmajid undertook the spiritual path (suluk) and attained the greatest Spiritual Opening (Fath al-Akbar). Sheikh RTA gave him guarantee that he shall attain all his heart desires concerning himself, family and companion. Sheikh RTA bestowed on him several gifts and granted him the Absolute or Unrestricted Permission (Ijaza al-Mutlaq).

Sheriff Abdulmajid RTA once visited Sheikh RTA in his Madina and attended the ceremony that Sheikh invited him to. Sheikh RTA gave him a special residence and there was a special meeting between the two of them. Sheikh RTA ordered the brothers to visit and salute him saying to them ‘if not for the faydah, it would not have been easy for you to see the type of this companion of mine, Sheriff Abdulmajid.

In the last visit of Sheikh RTA to Nigeria, Sheriff Abdulmajid came to visit him in the house of Alhaji Labaran together with some senior Sheikhs. After Sheriff returned to his house and immediately he entered, a messenger came to him from Sheikh with a message that Sheikh wants to see him. He returned quickly and Sheikh RTA said to him, ‘I wrote a praise for your grandfather (SAW) and I want you to listen to it. He ordered one of the young men with him to stand up and recite the eulogy from the Diwan Sayr al-Qalb. When he got to the saying of Sheikh “Verily, the One who returned Musa to his mother will return me to Munhaminnah and I shall be pleased”, Sheriff cried profusely to the extent that the gathering had to end.

A pointer to the special concern that the Sheikh RTA has for Sheriff Abdulmajid and his family, is what his son Sheriff Aliyu Abdulmajid told me which was related to him by his brother Ahmad Sukayrij on the authority of their pious mother. She said Sheriff Abdulmajid once spoke to Sheikh RTA during one of his visits expressing his concern over his wife and family. Sheikh ordered that a white cloak be brought. He held one side of it and asked Sheriff Abdulmajid to hold the other side and then he gathered the family of Sheriff Abdulmajid and covered their head with it. It was as if he imitated the action of the Messenger of Allah SAW with his household on whom the verse “Allah intends to take away filth from you oh! People of the household and purify you…” was revealed. Then Sheikh gave Sheriff Abdulmajid glad tidings of achieving his heart desires.

Sheriff Abdulmajid lived for over 90 years with sound health, in sight, hearing and body. He died on Monday 5-8-1406 Hijra equivalent to 2/18/1986. The Janazah was led by his beloved, the Chief Imam of Agege Central Mosque, Alhaj Aliyu Sufi. He was buried in a place in his house where he used to perform much worship. Moulana Sheikh Khalifa Ahmad Tijjani Inyass came for the condolence on behalf of the family of Sheikh. Sayyid Muhammad Habib became the Khalifa of his father by the choice of the family and companions of Sheriff.
In his investiture of Sheriff Abdulmajid as a Muqaddam, after listing his chains in the Tariqa, Sheikh Ibrahim RTA, wrote;

 “And from Sheikh (Tijjani) RTA without intermediary and such is the favour of Allah that He bestows on whomsoever he wishes and Allah is the possessor of great favours. These chains are authentic and connected to him RTA, I make muqaddam and grant izn and ijaza to Sheriff al-Hajj Abdulmajid Agege, Allah protect him, ameen. I enjoin him and myself to fear Allah in secret and open and also to be truthful in worship. He should not forget me in his pious prayers in secret and open. I beseech Allah to benefit all of us and grant us congruence to what He loves and is pleased with. May He benefit whoever connects to this chain and grant everyone his heart desires and may HE grant us an end with iman for He loves and is able to do so.”

Sheikh of Tariqa and Islam in Africa, Ibrahim bn al-hajj Abdullah al-Kaulakhiy. May Allah be subtle with him. Ameen. 1373 Hijra.

NB: Today marks the 47th year of the transition of Moulana Sahibu al-Fayda, Sheikh al-Islaam wa Sa’adatu al-Anam, Sheikh Ibrahim Inyas RTA. May the rain of the love and remembrance of this great master and succor endlessly pour on our souls by virtue of his beloved, SAW....Ameen!

 Source;
Majmū'at at-Ta'areef bi-sh Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse [An Encyclopedic Biographical Collection of (the Life & Times of) Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse] (Collected by Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Abdullah al-Jayjūbī)

May Allah be pleased with Sheriff Abdulmajid RTA and grant our heart desires by virtue of his love for Sahib al-Faydah RTA, Ameen!

Saturday 7 May 2022

CONVERSION STORY OF NWAGUI OF AFIKPO VILLAGE: THE IGBO CATHOLIC PRIEST WHO ACCEPTED ISLAM

AN ENCOUNTER WITH SHEIKH IBRAHIM NIASSE NWAGUI (FORMERLY KNOWN AS OKPANI EGWANI)


{Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse: A Man Apart}

The following article is taken from the September 1985 AFRICA EVENTS magazine, and is concerning Al Hajj Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse.

via: http://home.earthlink.net/~halimcisse/id41.html


Sayyid Omar Abdalla’s Encounter with Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse Nwagui:

“I Heard This From The Catholic Father (Padre)’s Own Tongue”


The late Al Hajj Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse of Senegal, Renowned Sufi Shaykh, was a most extra-ordinary man, He commands a large following in the whole of West Africa and beyond, including France and the U.S. Sayyid Omar Abdalla describes his encounters with the man.


La ilaha illa-llah, Mashaa Allah, La Quwwata illa Billah. I first knew of Al Hajj al-Allama Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse through a magazine, Al Arab, which used to be published in Karachi under the able editorship of an Egyptian.


I had read in the magazine that a highly spiritual man in Kaolack, Senegal was the cause for a padre (father) from Eastern Nigeria to embrace Islam. Eastern Nigeria was purely Christian and mainly Catholic. Islam was not allowed to enter there. British administrators co-operating very closely with the missionaries put up barriers against Islam entering Eastern Nigeria. Then it transpired that a well-educated padre had a dream that was to change the fortunes of Islam in Eastern Nigeria.


This is what happened, and I heard this from the padre’s own tongue. I had met him in Makkah. He was a very impressive man, very huge and wearing a Turban. His English was fluent and good. I was so much impressed with him that I had to ask him, “Where are you from?” “I’m from Eastern Nigeria”, he said. And immediately I asked, “Are you Ibrahim Niasse, the priest who was converted by Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse of Senegal and then took his name?” “Yes, indeed, I am”, came the reply. I met him again in 1965, at a conference of Muslim scholars from all over the Muslim World.


The former padre related to me his dream. In his dream, he saw very impressive people high up in the sky. With the padre there were two people, one white and the other one black. But he was surprised because the white person, whom he thought might be a European, was not in European attire but was in Islamic dress. He had never met any Arab before. The white gentleman told him, “If you want to join those people up there in the sky, the only person who can take you, who can lead you and guide you to get there is this black person”.But the black person was in Islamic dress. So the padre said to the white man, whom he later realized was the Prophet himself, “How can this man take me there? I’m a Christian, he is a Muslim”.And he was told, “That’s your business. If you want to get there, there’s no other way”. He woke up. As he was an artist he sketched the faces of the two gentlemen who were with him, and then he ignored the dream. But the dream kept on recurring until he thought it was necessary for him to go out of Eastern Nigeria to seek out the black man.


In Western Nigeria someone told him that his sketch of the black man resembled Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse of Senegal who lived in Kaolack. Having heard that, he decided there and then to go to Kaolack. He arrived at Shaykh Ibrahim’s house at 3 o’clock in the morning. He knocked at the door. The Shaykh’s children came out alarmed, thinking that he was a thief or an intruder. “I just want to see your father”, said the padre, “that’s all there is. I’m quite a peaceful person”. Incidentally, all of Shaykh Ibrahim’s children are illustrious. They all have memorized the Qur`an, they are very learned, and they combine both secular and religious education, of course in the Western sense of the dichotomy.


In Islam we don’t have the distinction between the religious and the secular. They are all one thing, all knowledge. And whatever helps you to approach God, to serve God, to develop your personality, is Islamic. Any knowledge which makes you do wrong, even if it is Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) or Tasawwuf (Islamic mysticism), is un-Islamic. And that is why you find in the Traditions of the Prophet, a prayer which says: “Allahumma a`udhubika min `ilmin la fanyaa”, O Lord, I take refuge in you against knowledge which is not useful.


There is no particular branch of knowledge that is not useful except knowledge that does not improve a person, or that does not make a person develop his personality and realize the existence of God and the unity of God and how to serve God, through serving fellow human beings. That is `Ilmin la Fanyaa (useless knowledge). No wonder Muslims in earlier times studied all sorts of knowledge, all branches of science, mathematics, they improved on them and put them on the right path, on the right way to become really scientific. But this is all digression.


Back to Kaolack. Shaykh Ibrahim came out of his house and the first thing he said to the padre was: “Join Islam, embrace Islam”.“That’s exactly what I’m here for”, responded the padre.


He then embraced Islam, stayed with Shaykh Ibrahim for sometime, learned the main principals of Islam, and the ritual practices required. After that he returned to Nigeria as a Muslim and with a new nam, Ibrahim Niasse, the name of his Shaykh, the man who helped him convert to Islam.


There were two churches in Eastern Nigeria that the padre was the responsible for looking after. But now he was a Muslim. He burned them down to make things easy. When he was taken to court for such a sacrilegious act, burning down places of worship, he told the English judge, “Mind you, I did not do that as a contempt of religion, of Christianity. I did that because I used to worship in those two churches, and I was in charge of those churches, which were built as a result of my efforts. Now I am a Muslim. I can’t pray in there. I have demolished the churches to build mosques instead so that I can go in and pray. If I were to go back to Christianity I shall burn down the mosques and build churches again”. The case was dismissed.


From what I read in Al Arab and what the man himself told me, within six months 6,000 people in Eastern Nigeria had embraced Islam. Shaykh Niasse of Eastern Nigeria was a tremendous person who made gigantic efforts with enormous enthusiasm to serve Islam, to spread Islam, and to explain Islam. And he did that very successfully.


When I read about this in Al Arab, I decided that whenever I was anywhere in Europe I would go to Senegal to see Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse of Kaolack, the man who possessed such spiritual powers. In 1961 or 1962 when I was up at Oxford, I received an invitation to go to Ghana to attend the conference on The World Without the Bomb organized by a committee in Yugoslavia and sponsored by Kwame Nkrumah.


I decided immediately, that it was an opportunity for me to go and see Ghana. It was not very easy because the Commonwealth scholarship I had did not allow people to be away from England for more than two weeks, during the teaching period and even during vacations. Anyway, I managed to get to Accra. The driver who was to take me around Accra decided that he would show me some of the buildings that the senior British administrators used to live in. He took me to one very imposing building, and outside the house I found people performing the zikr saying La ilaha illa-llah, La ilaha illa-llah, La ilaha illa-llah (There is no God but Allah).


I recalled that at one time, during the same period of Nkrumah, one of Zanzibar’s pre-independence politicians who was going to Ghana went to say good-bye to al-Imam al Habib `Umar bin Sumeyt, our Grand Shaykh. He was as Grand in East Africa as Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse was in West Africa, or probably more as Shaykh Ibrahim himself said. Sayyid `Umar said to the politician: “You’re going to Ghana. You’ll find people of our party there. When you have taken what you want to take for your party, then take for our party because you’ll find our people there”. When I saw the zikr I said to myself, “this is the party of Al Habib `Umar, the party of La ilaha illa-llah”.


The car stopped there. Someone approached and I asked him what was happening. He told me that there was a very great Shaykh inside the building. “A great Shaykh? Could I meet him?” “Let us go and inform him about it”, the man replied. Then he went inside and came out with a positive answer.


I went in and found a very impressive, highly dignified gentleman with a copy of the Qur`an in his hand. I was surprised because I thought he was a Ghanaian and I had not met any Ghanaian Muslim back in England. When I was there earlier between 1951 and 1953, I hardly met any Muslim Ghanaians, and I though that there were very few Muslims in Ghana. But of course this time I discovered that there were a lot of them. The reason why I did not see any of the educated Ghanaians who were Muslims in England was that education was left in the hands of Christian missionaries. One or two people whom risked sending their children there had them converted. Education was made a means of converting people to Christianity.


I was surprised to see that Shaykh. And I said, “Are you a Ghanaian?” He said he was not. “I am from Senegal”. I asked him if he knew Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse. He said that he knew him well because he was he. He was one of those invited to join the conference. Nkrumah used to get on very well with him. He used to take his advice because Shaykh Ibrahim knew a lot about the world and its ways. He was well versed both in diplomacy and politics and was deeply mystical. Very well read in Islamic subjects - fiqh (jurisprudence), tawhid (unity of God) and tasawwuf (mysticism). In him all sorts of learning merged in one whole. He was an internationally respected figure.


He went to China as the Shaykh of Islam of West Africa. It was during the time of Mao-Tse-Tung and he was well received. He used to get on very well indeed with King Faisal and President Gamal Abd al-Nasir. He reconciled the two of them when they fell apart. I remember to have seen him in Makkah sitting besides King Faisal at the grand Party that the King throws for all the pilgrims. I can now call to mind a picture that was taken at al-Azhar which has Gamal Abd al-Nasir sitting next to Shaykh Ibrahim. They were attending Friday prayers.


Shaykh Ibrahim was a man whose prayers have been answered. His favorite prayer was “O our Lord give us of this world the good things of this world and give us the good things of the next world and protect us from the punishment of hell-fire”.


Immediately we became very close. If I can let my audacity run away with me, I will say that we became very good friends from that particular day. We used to meet while I was in Ghana and I used to cantilate to his some religious qasidas, especially those from the anthology of al-Imam al-Mujaddid Al-Habib Abdalla ibn Alawi al-Haddad and al-Imam al-Kabir al-Habib Ali ibn Muhammad al-Habshy. I remember that he was absolutely spiritually intoxicated and he lost his balance when I recited this, “Lidh li fil `ilmi inni bil fanaa atlaqtu qaidee.” “If you know the knowledge of the knower, with knowledge of annihilation your chains are unlocked.”


This is taken from the Diwan of al-Habib al-Murshid, al-Imam al-Kabir Ali ibn Muhammad al-Habshy. I also used to recite this from the anthology of al-Imam al-Mujaddid al Habib Abdalla ibn Alawi al-Haddad, “Anaa mashghoolun bilaylaa, `an jamee`al kauni jumlahu fa’idhaa qulta min dhaa, qul huwas sabbul maulahu.”


When I recited the first he was overwhelmed, and he said he did not know in which world he was. He absolutely was out of the material world - his essence. Shaykh Ibrahim expected to keep on repeating these qasidas from the anthologies of as-Sadat al-Alawiyyah.

I asked him all about the conversion of his namesake who was in Eastern Nigeria, and who in turn converted thousands of Muslims. Shaykh Ibrahim confirmed the truth of the whole story.


I was in Senegal again to attend a conference on the teaching of economics. I was then the Principal of Muslim Academy in Zanzibar. On arrival the very first thing I did was to go to Kaolack to see the Shaykh. I was told he had gone to a neighboring country to open a mosque but would be returning to lead Friday prayers. When the time for prayers came his Khalifa took me to the mosque and put me right in front of al-mihrab (the pulpit). I found the Shaykh delivering the Friday sermon. What a pleasure it was, when while coming down from the pulpit to lead prayers, he turned and faced me. He said, “Ahlan Wassahlan, how is Shaykh `Umar”, that was the first thing he asked me. By that he meant Sayyidina al-Imam al-Habib `Umar ibn Ahmad ibn Sumeyt.


In these countries, when someone is called a Shaykh, he is really a Shaykh in knowledge, in upbringing, in training people, in guiding people on the path to God.


We went home in the afternoon, and from a rather ornate cupboard he brought out the photo of al-Habib `Umar, the very one I gave him. Then he gave it to his Khalifa, who was equally bawled over. And then Shaykh Ibrahim took the picture reverently and put it back where it was. I mentioned the incident to al-Habib `Umar, and he said “Aha! We have known him now and we shall pour into his heart spiritual endowments”.


That is the testimony to al-Habib `Umar’s great stature. For after all, Shaykh Ibrahim was a great personality in many spheres, political, diplomatic, spiritual, widely respected by people in all walks of life, and highly regarded throughout the world including China, and yet there he was paying homage to al-Habib `Umar.


Once he was passing through Rome, when someone approached him and asked him to go and see the Pope. Shaykh Ibrahim said it was a wonderful idea, but “the Pope must come to me”, he said, “I represent Muhammad, upon whom be peace and blessings of Allah, and he represents Christ, upon whom be the peace and blessings of God, and Muhammad is greater than Christ. If he won’t come to me, then I won’t go to him.” *** Copyright Sayyid Omar Abdalla Africa Events September 1985.This article, The Eternal Islam, and The 17th Anniversary of the Disappearance of Shaykh Ibrahim were published in Newsletters of The African American Islamic Institute, in 1998, but the newsletters were not distributed. You may contact us by e:mail for copies. Insha-llah.










CONVERSION OF SHAYKH IBRAHIM NIASSE NWAGUI: A MIRACULOUS EVENT THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY OF EXPANSION OF ISLAM IN THE IGBO~SPEAKING AREA OF NIGERIA

Pic and Write~Up are contained in the Book: “THE ICON OF MYSTICS: SHAYKH IBRAHIM NIASS AL~KAWLAKHY”

By: Khalifa Awwal Baba Taofiq 


Abdur~Rahman Doi reports that; around 1960, a miraculous event changed the course of history of expansion of Islam in the Igbo~speaking are of Nigeria. Nwagui, an Igbo and a native of Afikpo who was well~grounded in the Christian doctrines saw some mysterious dreams in which an unknown turbaned and bearded African looking like a Muslim summoned him to come to him, leaving his present practice of religion. Being troubled by the repeated dreams, he consulted Muslim Mallams describing the man he saw in his dreams. Someone pointed out to him that the description seemed like that of Shaykh Ibrahim Niass of Kawlakh in Senegal, the spiritual head of the Tijaniyyah path in West~Africa. Nwagui prepared to visit Senegal where he saw and recognized him immediately. He spent several years in his presence after accepting Islam. He adopted the same Muslim name as that of his spiritual mentor.


Faydah Tijaniyyah spread to the Eastern part of Nigeria and Afikpo became the nerve centre of Faydah. Afikpo became reservoir of renowned Islamic scholars in the Eastern part of Nigeria. The pathfinder, Shaykh Ibrahim Niass Nwagui after his return from Kawlakh, began to tour round Igbo communities propagating the religion of Islam and spreading the Faydah. The Shaykh (Nwagui) built a large Islamic Center in his hometown Nnofia, the center included a large mosque, a Primary and Qur’anic school, a Library, a small Hospital and fairly close to the compound, his own personal residence from where he could supervise the activities of the center.----------{A.R.I Doi: Islam in Nigeria, 1984.p.171} cited in {“The Icon Of Mystics: Shaykh Ibrahim Niass Al~Kawlakhy” of Shaykh Awwal Baba Taofiq, 2008}.


He (Nwagui) was converted to Islam by Shaykh Ibrahim Niass who gave his name to the new convert and requested him to propagate Islam in the Eastern region of Nigeria. Shaykh Nwagui claimed to have carried out the assignment successfully by converting many people into Islam and destroying many idols. Giving report on his activities, Nwagui said:


“On October 28th 1958, the whole people of the village of Anofia, Afikpo, men and women numbering upto 2,000 embraced Islam and voluntarily handed over their individual and communal jujus, idols and shrine to me….to destroy”---------This is contained in the letter which Shaykh Nwagui wrote on 14th January, 1960 to Sir Ahmadu Bello, the then Premier of the Northern Region.


In 1964, Shaykh Nwagui made another significant conversion exercise which is duely recorded in a newspaper. The paper slated thus:


“Hajj Sayyid Ibrahim Nwagui, a Muslim leader of Eastern Nigeria….Who is on a religious tour of some parts of Eastern Nigeria arrived at Abriba Ikomoru town with his Secretary~General, Muhammad Uchendu and thirty followers……..after five hours of preaching Islam to them, the chief juju priest including one hundred and thirty-three pagans and twenty-four Christians surrendered themselves to him and embraced Islam in his hand that same day”----Nigeria Citizen, Saturday 26th Sept, 1964.


Shukran jazeelan (Many Thanks) to Shaykh Awwal Baba Taofiq for his book, which has enlightened us so much. May Allah more fruitful years to propagate Islam and Faydah, Ameen!!!




THE GREATEST JIHADIST THAT HAS LEFT UNBEATABLE LANDMARK IN IGBOLAND WAS SHAIKH IBRAHIM NIASSE NWAGUI OF AFIKPO

Written by Badmus N.O. Abdul Azeez

via: Perspective in the Advent, Spread and Consolidation of Islam in Igboland: The role of Jihad and the Jihadists: {http://www.egodiuchendu.com/}


The Jihad and the Jihadists


The discussion of Jihad in its macro perspective revealed that the most effective Jihad took place in Igboland was executed by the Igbo Muslim themselves.


The greatest Jihadist that has left unbeatable landmark in Igboland was Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse Nwagui of Afikpo. Ibrahim started his Jihad after his historical journey to Senegal where he embraced Islam.


He used his Nnofia near Afikpo as center for his Islamic activities. Before his death he was able to convert most of the people of the area into Islam.


He also toured round Igboland preaching his faith in native language. He was able to win strong people like Musa Udaemba Eme from Aberiba, Alhaji Tijani Akabuo of Orlu, Umar Isa from Ndibe, Alhaji Okpaloko of Oweri, Ibrahim Chukwu Idam including others into the fold of Islam.


At Nnofia, his home town, he built a large Islamic center equipped with a large Mosque, library, primary school, hospital and residential apartment.


He was reported to have burnt down all the houses of traditional worship in Nnofia on his return from pilgrimage to Mecca in 1966.


If jihad means propagation of Islam, only few people could match Nwagui in the contemporary history of Nigeria.


Nwagui also established the Muslim Jama’ah in Igboland and issued identity card to member prolytes.


His center at Nnofia was latter chose as operational office of the World Muslim League headed by Shaykh Amanatullah from India who served at the place for several years and upgraded it to the level of the best Islamic center in Nigeria.


The center has produced many young scholars of repute in Arabic and Islamic Studies who are at present propagators of Islam through Arabic, English and their various mother tongues.


“The impact of Islam was felt towards the end of 19th century due to little effort of Hausa and Nupe traders who settle in Igboland. Thus, the Muslim faithful was limited to emigrants until 1960’s when Nwagui dreamt and became a Muslim. He started open-air preaching and built Islamic school, mosques and went to Mecca. His effort was to be complemented by Prof. Babs Fafunwa and other Yoruba scholars in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, also, the role of the military formation in Igboland.”---- National Open Unversity of Nigeria Lecture Note on “Islam In Nigeria”. Course Developer/Writer: Dr. Salau Sule Omotoso


LITERARY WRITINGS OF SŪFĪ SCHOLARS: ENGLISH COLLECTION (39 ITEMS)

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1. Who is this Shaikh “Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse Al-Kaolacky” [by Dr. Awwal Baba Taofiq]


 2. Handbook for every Tijaniyyat [by Shaikh Ahmad Bello As-Suufi Harazimi]


3. Practical Guide on the Wird(Litany) of the Tariqah Faydah Tijaniyyah (The Adherent Handbook)-(Compiled by Sayyidah Bilqis Grillo)


4. Durratu Tāj (The Crown Jewel and Fundamental Needs of the Murid, Regarding the Essentials of the Rules & Requirements of the Tariqa Tijaniyyah Spiritual Path): A Concise Instructional Handbook/Pamphlet), by Abdul-Karīm ibn al-Arabī [Translated by Shaikh Hassan Cisse & Alhaji Lawal]


5. The Qualities and Uses of Zamzam Water (A Scientific & Islamic Exploration) by Abdul-Quadir Adeniyi Okeneye


6. Who is Shaykh Jamiu Bulala (by Ustaz Olanipekun Shittu Tunde)


7. Understanding the Concept of Will-Making in Islam (Fee Manzoori-l-Islam) by Abdul-Quadir Adeniyi Okeneye

 

8. Majmū’at ad-Dawāwīn (Collection of Eulogy Works) of Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse’ (Arabic text & English translation [by Dr. Awwal Baba Taofiq]


 9. Vessel of Spiritual Flood, Translation of Goran Faydah by Shaykh Balarabe Haroon Jega 

(Hausa-Ajami text & English translation [by Dr. Awwal Baba Taofiq]


10. Dalā’il al-khairāt wa Shuwāriq al-Anwār fī Dhikr as-Salāt ‘alā-n Nabiyy al-Mukhtār (The Indices of Virtues/The Waymarks of Benefits and the Brilliant Burst of Sunshine in the Invocation of Allah’s Blessing on the Chosen Prophet) by Imām Sulaiman Jazūlī [Re-Arranged into Arabic text, Translation, Transliteration by Alhaji Marooph Raji]


11. Risalat at-Tawbah (Epistle of Repentance) of Shaykh Ibrahim Niyass al-Kawlakhi" - (Translation & Commentary by Dr. Razzaq Solagberu)


12. At-Taiseer (Simplification): The Means of Attaining Purification Through Poetry with Allaah's Most Beautiful Names, By Shaykh El-Hajj Malick Sy 


13. Qasida al-Hamziyya (Panegyric which contains the Biography & History of Prophet Muḥammad) by Shaykh Muhammad Būsayrī [Translation & Commentary by Ibrahim Jafaru] - Arabic & English


14. Sufism “The Orthodox Path” (At-Tasawwuf “Minhāj al-Qawīm”) [Arabic text & English translations ], by Oseni Aliu Olalekan


15. Facts about Sufism (by Sayyid Ismaheel Abdulrauf)


16. Hizbul Bahr (Arabic, Translation & Transliteration by Alhaji Marooph Raji)


17. Hizbu Sayfi (Arabic, Translation & Transliteration by Alhaji Marooph Raji)


18. 37 Praises in Qur'an (Arabic, Translation & Transliteration by Alhaji Marooph Raji)


19. Understanding Sufism: Transcripts of Lectures on Tasawwuf (by Olanipekun Shittu Tunde)


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SHAYKH ABUBAKR JUBILLEE JALLOR

{Muqaddam of Shaykh Ahmad Hamahullah in Nigeria}

By: Professor Y. A. Quadri (University of Ilorin, Nigeria)

Culled from the Article titled;
The Hamahullah Group: A Sub-Tijaniyyah Movement and its Traces in Nigeria.

Published in:
Islamic Studies Quarterly Journal. Vol. xxiv Summer 1405/1985 No.2. Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad-Pakistan

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..A few followers of the Hamahullah movement have been identified in another part of Nigeria. They are found in Oke-Ode, Igbaja, and Ilorin, all in Kwara State. Some members of this movement are also resident in Lagos. 

The leader of the group in Nigeria is one Muqaddam (a sectional leader in the Tijaniyyah) Abubakr Jubillee, a Fulani man who has lived at Oke-Ode for about fifty years. 

He was born in Ilorin around 1905 and later moved to settle at Oke-Ode. In about 1950 he met a member of the Hamahullah in Baani, a village near Alapa, via Ilorin. He initiated him into the Tijaniyyah and impressed upon him to visit Nioro, in Mali for further training in the Tijaniyyah. 

Five years later he went to Nioro where he spent three years under the leadership of one Muqaddam Muhammad 'Abd al-Rahman who also appointed him a muqaddam.

When muqaddam Abubakr Jublli returned to Nigeria he started to preach the doctrines of his group in his settlement at Jubill, Oke-Ode, near Ilorin. 

He became widely known in the area in particular as a mysterious man because he is believed to possess supernatural powers and this attracted many people to him who went to him with their problems for solution. Through this contact he initiated some people into his way.

As we have indicated earlier, the members of the Hamahullah group are not many in Nigeria. A number of factors can be attributed to this. For example, muqaddam Abubakr Jublli is the only authorized leader that can initiate a prospective member known as murid into the group. In effect, it means that such a prospective murid will have to travel to Oke-Ode since there is no other known muqaddam of the Hamahullah outside Oke-Ode. 

Further to that muqaddam Jubili in his own case does not embark on recruitment tours to win members for his group. His attitude is in contrast to many other muqaddams of the Tljaniyyah who believe in bringing many people into the Order by extensive touring.

Another factor that is responsible for the paucity of members of the Hamahullah in Nigeria is the strictness of their muqaddam. He does not initiate any body except if he is convinced that such a person actually manifests a sincere interest in the Tljaniyyah and the doctrines of the Hamahullah in particular. He often turns people back and asks them to go and think properly and come back after a month or two if they are still interested. 

We will like to observe that the practice of this muqaddam is in conformity with the dictates of the Tljaniyyah which require a life membership of the Order. A muqaddam is expected to explain all the rules and regulations governing the Tijaniyyah to a prospective member and the muqaddam must be convinced that such a person fully accepts them convincingly before he is initiated into the Order (Bughyat al-Mustafld, p. 286). 

The absence of such strictness on the part of some muqaddams whereby they initiate people into the Tijaniyyah indiscriminately and recklessly, too, seems to account for the resignation of some members from the Order.

Primary Source of info;

Muqaddam Abubakar Jubillee was interviewed by the writer (Prof. Y. A. Quadri) in October 1980 at Oke-Ode, Kwara State, Nigeria.


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