INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY BBC HAUSA WITH SAYYADAH UMMUHANI IBRAHIM NIASSE

A VERY EDUCATIVE INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY BBC SASHEN HAUSA WITH OUR BELOVED MOM SAYYADAH MAULATUNA UMMUHANI IBRAHIM NIASSE

 

Transcribed & Translated By: Hussein Yushau BabalWaiz, New York 

 

I WAS ASKED BY HER SON SAYYADI ALIYU UTHMAN BASHIR TO TRANSLATE FOR THE BENEFIT OF NON HAUSA SPEAKING LISTENERS & READERS...

 

SHE LAMENTED SAD INSTANCES WHERE SOME SO-CALLED MURIDS ARE ASSOCIATING DIVINITY TO HIM (SHAYKH IBRAHIM NIASSE) WHICH HE WAS INNOCENT..

 

"....I said on countless occasions in the media, at home and other places that Sheikh Ibrahim was a (sincere) lover of Rasulullah s.a.w. All those status he attained were by virtue of his (unflinching) love of Rasulullah s.a.w.

 

He had never claimed divinity (or called himself Allah). He had abided by the sunnah of the messenger of Allah...So whenever such things (of blasphemy) are associated to him, I do shed tears and would have sleepless night... 

 

Some are out there causing insults for him (for a 'crime') he had neither heard nor saw, just as we (his children) neither heard now saw it said in front of him to endorse it)....What makes me worried is that social changes or change of time makes (the youth) introduce strange practices which are not part of our faida (divine flood) and were not taught by Sheikh. This makes me sad..

 

Sheikh had never proudly show himself (to people). He had never urged people to come and love him...Neither his children, grand children nor prominent scholars had mentioned this (about Sheikh)..."

 

The interviewer asked Sayyadah about her own personal life right from infancy and below was some of what she disclosed to us:

 

"...I was born in London 1963. I had memorized the Qur'an in 1976...We used to revise in front of him (Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse) and would ask us to go and write (the suras) on (washable) slates... I returned to Nigeria in 1977 (two years after our father's death in 1975) and we completed the khatim or memorizing the Qur'an in 1976....

 

I had some primary (secular) education (for four years) and a year later, I got married....I had spent 27 years with him (my husband)...

 

Sheikh indicated to us that we have to learn and teach and be obedient and train others...So that is why I have been teaching the Qur'an since I got married in 1980 until now...I taught my younger sisters, my step children, my neighbors' children and my own children until they had memorized the Qur'an....

 

Up till now I still teach the Qur'an and books of Sheikh in this house every friday. As for the other branches of knowledge (aside of the Qur'an), I learnt them from my late husband Alhaji Usmanu Bashir....But my school is currently at home and wish to establish out of home school, soon insha Allah...

 

The suras that i enjoy reading most are suratul kahf and suratul baqarah....

 

What makes me sad was the death of my father, mother and husband...

What makes me happy is to see the holy Qur'an being recited and to see the youth following the deen and sunnah of Rasululah s.a.w....

We (the children of Sheikh) are 75 in all...

 

My ambition is to establish a big school and teach the Qur'an (continuously) in order to guide people as our late father did...

 

I had 10 children with my husband, 1 girl had passed and 5 girls and 4 boys are alive.... Alhamdulillahi!

 

Transcribed & Translated By: Hussein Yushau BabalWaiz, New York

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SECTION A: ENGLISH ONLY 

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

2. Shariah and Haqeeqah: In the Light of the Qur'an and the Prophetic Traditions [by Dr. Awwal Baba Taofiq]

3. The Icon of Mystics: Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse Al-Kawlakhy [by Dr. Awwal Baba Taofiq]

4. New Life Through Sufism (An Introductory Approach to Sufism) [by Shaikh Zikrullah Okukayode Yekeen]

5. Pure Hearted (Al Qalb as-Salīm) [by Balogun Babatunde (Ubaidullah Alli)]

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

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

8. In the Meadows of Tafsir for the Noble Quran (Fī Riyādh at-Tafsīr lil Qur’ān al-Karīm) by Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse (Compiled by Muhammad ibn Abdullah Jayjubi at-Tijānī) - English Translation[1 Volume]

9. 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]

10. Facts about Sufism (by Sayyid Ismaheel Abdulrauf)

11. Jawāhir al-Ma’ānī wa Bulūgh al-Amānī fī Fayd Sīdi Abī-l ‘Abbās at-Tijānī (Jewels of Meanings and the Attainment of Aspirations in the Spiritual Flood of Abu l Abbas Tijānī) by Sīdī ‘Aliyyu Harāzim Berrada -English Translation [Vol 1]

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

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

14. Mukhtārāt min Mu'alafāt al-Fudiyāwiyūn [Selected Writings of the Fodios (Shaykh Usman, Abdullah & Muhammad Bello)] - 11 Vols (English)

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

16. Shaykh Ahmad Tijani and his Spiritual Path

17. Sayyida Fatima Zahara (The Rose)

 

SECTION B: ENGLISH TRANSLATION & ARABIC 

 

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

19. Al-Yaaqutatul Fareeda Fii Tariqatul Tijaniyyah (The Unique Ruby in the Tijaniya Spiritual Path), by Sheikh Muhammad Nazifi (R.A)...Translated by Sayyidi Jafaru Ibrahim

20. Vessel of Spiritual Flood, Translation of Goran Faydah by Shaykh Balarabe Haroon Jega (Hausa-Ajami text & English translation [by Dr. Awwal Baba Taofiq] 

21. Katsina and Kaduna Conferences (Jadhbul ahbab ila hadrat Rabbil arbab) and Mecca Conference -(Translated by Sayyidah Bilqis Grillo)

22. Mawlud lectures of Shaikh Ibrahim Niass(Translated by Sayyidah Bilqis Grillo)

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

24. Al-khususiyyah Fi Mujadid Tariqah Tijaniyyah (The Distinguished Miracles of Shaikh Ibrahim Niass), Compiled & Translated by Dr. Awwal Baba Taofiq

25. Epistle to the World [The Translation of Ayyuha-l-Walad (Dear Beloved Son)] by Imam Abu Hameed Al-Ghazaali....Translated by Abdul-Quadir Adeniyi Okeneye

26. Jawahir Rasail (A Collection of Priceless Expositions via Letters "Letters 1 to 10"): Diamond Sparkles - (Arabic text, English Translation and Commentary by Sayyidah Bilqis Grillo)

27. Softcopy of Numerous Sufi Literature (Arabic & English) - (To be sent via CD & email/googledrive)

28. Kano Conferences by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse

29. Shaykh Inyass’ Special Prayers

30. Rūh al-Adab (Spirit of Excellent Ethics) by Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse [Translated by Abdul-Quadir Okeneye]

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

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

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

 

 

SECTION C: ARABIC ONLY

34. Dalā’ilu l Khayrāt - Collection of prayers upon the Prophet

a) in Plain Arabic and Warsh script” (by Shaikh Sulaiman Jazūlī) – Arabic

b) in Hafs Arabic (small size)

c) in Hafs Arabic (big size)

35. Kanzul Masūn - Collections of Prayers/Supplications (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse) - Arabic

36. Dawāwīn as-Sitt (Six Anthologies) on Prophetic Eulogy (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse) - Arabic

37. Ahzāb wa Awrād (Collection of Prayers/Liturgies and Litanies) of Shaikh Ahmad at-Tijani - Arabic

38. Jihāzu Sārih wa Sā’ihi wa Sābih wal ‘Ākiful Fālihu fī Tawajuhāt bi-Salātul Fātih by Shaykh Muhammad Gibrima Ad-Dāghirī - *Arabic*

39. Al-Durra al-Kharida fī Shar’h al-Yāqūtat al-Farīda (‘The Unpierced Pearl’ in the Commentary of ‘The Unique Ruby’) - [Arabic, 2 Vols] by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wāhid an-Nazīfī

40. Jawāhir al-Ma’ānī wa Bulūgh al-Amānī fī Fayd Sīdi Abī-l ‘Abbās at-Tijānī (Jewels of Meanings and the Attainment of Aspirations in the Spiritual Flood of Abu l Abbas Tijānī) by Sīdī ‘Aliyyu Harāzim Berrada - Arabic [Single Vol 1/2]

41. Fī Riyādh at-Tafsīr lil Qur’ān al-Karīm (In the Meadows of Tafsir/Exegesis for the Noble Quran) - by Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse (Compiled by Muhammad ibn Abdullah Jayjubi at-Tijānī)
—Arabic [6 Volumes]

42. Kāshif al-Ilbās (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse) - Arabic

43. Fatihu Rabānī fīmā yahtāju ilayhi l Murīd at-Tijānī, by Muhammad ibn Abdullah at-Tijānī

44. Al-Fuyūdāt ar-Rabāniyyah fī Ma’āthar wal Awrād al-Qādiriyyah, by Sayyid al-Hajj ibn Sayyid Muhammad Sa’eed al-Qādirī

45. Sa’ādat al-Anām bi Aqwāl Shaykh al-Islām

46. Al-Budūr as-Suta’i: Shar’h al-Mur’hafati-l quta’i (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

47. Tabsirat al-Anām fī anna-l ‘Ilma Huwa-l Imām (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

48. Kanzul Awliyā fī Tawassuli bi-A’azam al-Asmā’ (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

49. Raf’u-l Malām ‘aman rafa’a wa qabada iqtidā bi-Sayyid al-Anām (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

50. Nujūm al-Hudā fī kawni Nabiyyinā afdala man da’ā ilā llahi wa hadā (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

51. Ziyādat al-Jawāhir min yawāqīt al-fāzin durari hikamin fī funūn ‘ulūm (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

52. Matrab as-Sāmi’een an-Nāzireen: Fī Manāqib ash-Shaykh Al-Hajj ‘Abdullah ibn Sayyid Muhammad (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

53. Al-Bayān wa-t Tabyīn ‘anni-t Tijāniyyati wa-t Tijāniyyīn (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

54. Tanbīhu-l adhkiyā’ fī kawn Ash-Shaykh At-Tijānī Khātim al-Awliyyā (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

55. Dīwān Sayr al-Qalb bi-Mad’h al-Mustafā al-hibb ilā Hadrat Ar-Rabb (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

56. Majmū’ Rihlāt Ash-Shaykh Ibrāhīm [Ar-Rihlat al-Hijaziyya al-ūlā, Nayl al-Mafāz al-awd ilā-l Hijāz, Ar-Rihlat al-Kanāriyya wal Kumāshiyya, Ar-Rihlat al-Kunākriyya] (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

57. Jawāhir ar-Rasā’il al-hāwī ba’ad al-‘ulūm wasīlat al-wasā’il (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

58. Tafsīr al-Jalālayni [by Jalāludeen al-Mahālī & Jalāludeen as-Suyūtī]

59. Tafsīr Ibn ‘Abbās (Tanwīr al-Miqbās) [by Abī Tāhir ibn Ya’aqūb Fairūzābādī]

60. Shams al-Ma’arif al-Kubrā wa Latā’if al-‘Awārif [by Imām Ahmad ibn ‘Aliyyu Al-Būnī]

61. Al-‘Ishrīniyya (Dīwān al-Wasā’il al-Mutaqabala fī mad’hi-n Nabiyyi) [by Wazīr Abdur-Rahmān al-Fāzāzī & Imām AbūBakr al-Muhīb]

62. Mukāshafat al-Qulūb [by Imām Abū-Hamīd al-Ghazzālī]

63. Ghāyatul Amānī fī Sīrat Sīdī Ahmad At-Tijānī [Compiled by Muhammad ibn Al-Hassan al-Mada’ū Thānī]

64. Ifādatul Ahmadiyyah: Li-Mureed As-Sa’ādat al-Abadiyyah [by Sīdī Muhammad At-Tayyib As-Sufyānī]

65. Majmu’ Qasā’id al-Mawlid an-Nabawī (by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

66. al-Irshādāt al-Rabbāniyyah bi al-Futūḥāt al-Ilāhiyyah li-Sīdī Abī-l ‘Abbās Ahmad al-Tijānī ‘alā Matn al-Hamziyyah li-Abī ‘Abdullah al-Būsayrī (The Lordly Guidance by way of Divine Illumination of Sīdī Abī-l ‘Abbās Ahmad al-Tijānī: Commentary to Text of Hamziyyah by Abu Abdullah al-Busayri) [Published by Sīdī ‘Alī Ḥarāzim Barrādah] – Arabic

67. Sirrul Asraar (by Shaikh AbdulQadir Jaylani)

68. Abu Ma’shar al Falaki (by Shaikh Abu Hayyillahi al-Marzuqi)

69. Ismu-llahi al-a’azam (by Shaikh AbdulFatai Tūkhī)

70. Tansheet as Sufiyya fi’l Ahzaab al-Qaadiriyya (Shaikh Nasiru Kabara & Alfa Nda Salati)

71. Urjuzat Ruh ul Adab (Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse)

72. Al-Burdat al-madeehi(Shaikh Būsayri)

73. Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-'Azīm "lil-Imāmayn Al-Jalālayni" - Warsh & Hafs - 2 Vols (Arabic)

74. Mukhtārāt min Mu'alafāt al-Fudiyāwiyūn [Selected Writings of the Fodios (Shaykh Usman, Abdullah & Muhammad Bello)] - 11 Vols (Arabic)

75. Natā'ij al-Asfār fī-s Salāt 'alā-n Nabiyy al-Mukhtār (by Shaykh Ahmad Abū-l Fat'h al-Yarwāwī)

76.Teebul Fā'ihi Wal Wirdu-s Sā'ihi fī Salātul Fātih (by Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abdul Wāhid an-Nazeefī)

77. Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-'Azīm "lil-Imāmayn Al-Jalālayni" (by Imām Jalālu-Deen Al-Muhalī & Imām Jalālu-Deen As-Suyūtī) [Warsh & Hafs Scripts - 2 Vols]

78. Rūh ul-Bayān fī Tafsīr ul-Qur'ān (10 Volumes Sūfī Tafsīr/Quranic Exegesis) [by Shaikh Ismā'īl al-Haqqī al-Barūsī]

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DEFINING THE REAL PERSONALITY OF OUR BELOVED PROPHET (PBUH) BY BAYE NIASSE

INARGUABLY, NO SCHOLAR IN OUR CURRENT AND CONTEMPORARY TIME COULD DEFINE THE REAL PERSONALITY OF OUR BELOVED PROPHET (PBUH) THAN HOW MAULANA SHEIKHUL ISLAM AL-HAJI IBRAHIM NYASS

WOULD DEFINE HIM IN HIS NUMEROUS WRITINGS, BOTH IN PROSE AND POETRY...!!!

قال الشيخ إبراهيم نياس في تفسيره (رياض التفسير) في هذه الآية الكريمة:《وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ》

Maulana Sheikh Ibrahim Niass said in his Quranic Exegesis (IN THE MEADOW OF EXEGESIS) in regards to this noble verse: 

《(Oh Muhammad) You Posses The Greatest of Morals》

أخبر الجليل تبارك وتعالي أن محمدا صلي الله عليه وسلم على خلق عظيم.  قالت عائشة: كان خلقه القرآن. من أحب أن يعرف خلق محمد فليقرأ القرآن " قد أفلح المؤمنون الذين هم في صلاتهم خاشعون والذين هم عن اللغو معرضون والذين هم للزكاة فاعلون إلي الآية 11، هذه أخلاق محمد صلي الله عليه وسلم.

Allah Exalted and Almighty has revealed that Muhammad (PBUH) possesses the greatest of morals. Aisha (RTA) said: "His morals (encapsulates) the Qur'an". So whoever wishes to know the morals of Muhammad should (always) recite the Qur'an. "Verily the believers who are very devout to their prayer, who eschew from lewdness and who do pay their zakat (regularly) have succeeded. Up to the end of the verse. These are the morals or manners of Muhammad (PBUH).

 أخلاق محمد القرآن، كل ما أمر به القرآن يقوم به و كل مانهي عنه القرآن لم يقرب منه صلي الله عليه وسلم، بل القرآن هو عين محمد صلي الله عليه وسلم. القرآن معنوي و محمد حسي فكل ما في القرآن فهو في محمد صلي الله عليه وسلم حتي أنك إذا تفكرت تجد أن القرآن تشخص في محمد بن عبد الله بن عبد المطلب. 

The morals (charcater) of Muhammad is Al-Qu'ran. Whatever the Qur'an commanded he would implement it and whatever the Qur'an kicked against he (PBUH) wouldn't get closer to it. Even the Qur'an is the real (personality) of Muhammad (PBUH). The Qur'an is spiritual (book) and Muhammad is a physical (being). So whatever is in the Qur'an is within (the spiritual and physical being of) Muhammad (PBUH). Even when you think deep, you would observe that the Qur'an (in it's entirety) embodies (the personality of) Muhammad bun Abdallah bun Abdul Muttalib.

هذا معني وهذا حسي، جاء القرآن مخصوصا بوجود محمد بن عبد الله بن عبد المطلب. تجمع فيه جميع أخلاق الأنبياء. والأنبياء لهم مكارم الأخلاق ولكن تفاوتوا في بعض الأخلاق. في محمد صلي الله عليه وسلم صفاء آدم، وفي محمد صلي الله عليه وسلم شكر نوح، وفي محمد صلي الله عليه وسلم خلة إبراهيم، وفي محمد صلي الله عليه وسلم إخلاص موسي، وفي محمد صلي الله عليه وسلم صبر أيوب، وزهد عيسي ويحيى، وفي محمد صلي الله عليه وسلم صبر وشكر يوسف هو جمع بين المقامين فابتلي أولا فصبر وأعطي النعمة أخيرا فشكر.

This (Qur'an) is a spiritual (book) and this (Muhammad) is a physical (being). The entire morals of the prophets are encapsulated in it. And the prophets have noble morals. But they vary from each other. Within (the psyche of) Muhammad (PBUH) you would find the serenity of Adam. Within (the psyche of) Muhammad (PBUH) you would find the gratitude of Nuhu. Within (the psyche of) Muhammad (PBUH) you would find the companionship of Ibrahim (to Allah) Within (the psyche of) Muhammad (PBUH) you would find the sincerity of Musah. Within (the psyche of) Muhammad (PBUH) you would find the patience of Ayyub. Within (the psyche of)  Muhammad you would find the asceticism of Issah and Yahya. And within (the psyche of) Muhammad (PBUH) you would find the paitence and gratitude of Yusif. He had combined both status, then he was tested (with challenges[being thrown in the well and being imprisoned]) first and was patient and then (later) was graciously blessed (with leadership in Egypt) and then became thankful (to Allah).

Translated By: Husseini Yushau BabalWaiz, New York, (currently in Kumasi-Ghana).

LIFE & LEGACY OF SAYYIDA MARIAM NIASS

LIFE & LEGACY OF SHEIKHAT SAYYADAH MARIAM IBRAHIM NIASS ALKOALAKHI...!!!

When Sayyadah Mariam was born, Maulana Sheikh Ibrahim Niass was expecting a boy, he however predicted her future life in a brief sentence as follows....

"...إنني كنت أتوقع أن يكون لي ولد ، لكنها ستعيش ويكون لها مكانها بين الرجال ، وتتنافس معهم على المعرفة والاحترام والتقوى..."

"....I was expecting to have a boy, but nevertheless, she will grow to have her own place among men (to be intellectually independent) and compete with them base on knowledge, honor and piety..."

My fellow reader, just take a short 'tour' with me through these paragraphs to the end and judge by yourself whether what her father Baye Niass  had prophesied and predicted (as a waliyi/saint) about her came to fruition in her life....

And reflect upon the commonality between her international prominence and recognition and that of her father...You would see why the Arabs would say...!كيف ماكان المربي يكون المربى

 A trainee tends to be like the trainer!

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أعلن اليوم في السينغال عن رحيل خادمة القرآن الكريم السيدة مريم بنت الشيخ ابراهيم انياس شخصية صوفية سنغالية، ارتبط اسمها بتدريس القرآن الكريم حتى لـُـقبت محليا "خادمة القرآن". والدها هو الشيخ إبراهيم انياس الذي يعتبر أحد أبرز شيوخ التصوف بغربي أفريقيا.

The death of the "Servant of the Qur'an" Sayyadah Mariam daughter of Sheikh Ibrahim Niass was announced today in Senegal. As a devoted Senegalese sufi personality, her named was linked to teaching the holy Qur'an to the extent of giving an alias "Servant of the Qur'an". Her father was Sheikh Ibrahim Niass, who was considered as one of the prominent Sheikhs of sufi order in west Africa.

المولد والنشأة

ولدت مريم بنت إبراهيم انياس بن عبد الله الكولخي يوم 24 ديسمبر/كانون الأول عام 1934 في مدينة كولخ السنغالية، لأسرة علمية صوفية ذات تأثير مجتمعي كبير لكونها والدها شخصية علمية بارزة ويتزعم فرعا كبيرا من الطريقة التجانية الصوفية.

Birth & Upbringing 

Sayyadah Mariam Ibrahim Niass bun Abdallah was born on December 24, 1934 in Madinatu Kaolack, Senegal from a knowledge and sufi oriented family, which is of huge societal impact and it leads a huge constituence of the followers of Tijjani sufi path.

 الدراسة والتكوين

التحقت مريم انياس في سن مبكرة بمدرسة لتعليم القرآن وهي مدرسة أسسها والدها في مدينة كولخ فحفظت القرآن الكريم وهي في 13 من عمرها، وبعد حفظه بدأت دراسة اللغة العربية والعلوم الإسلامية على والدها الشيخ إبراهيم نياس.

Education & Training 

Sayydah Mariam Niass was enrolled into the school established by her father in Madinatu Kaolack at a very early age to learn the Qur'an and she memorized the holy Qur'an at 13 years of age. So after her memorization (of the Qur'an), she started learning Arabic language and Islamic knowledge under the supervision of her father Sheikh Ibrahim Niass.

أصبحت عام 1950 مدرِّسة للقرآن الكريم في "مدرسة شيخ الإسلام" بمدينة الشيخ إبراهيم نياس التي تُعرف اختصارا بـ"مدينة"، وأسست بعد انتقالها إلى العاصمة داكار للاستقرار مع زوجها هناك سنة 1960 مدرسة قرآنية في منزلها، وكانت تشرف بنفسها على تدريس أطفال الحي الذي تسكنه، ثم تحولت المدرسة إلى قبلة رئيسية للعشرات من أطفال داكار الراغبين في تعلم القرآن الكريم.

In 1950, she became a teacher of the holy Qur'an in the "School of Sheikhul Islam" in Madinatu Kaolack Sheikh Ibrahim Niass which is shortly known as "Madinah". And after she moved to Dakar in 1960, she established a Quranic school in her home. So she devoted herself teaching the kids and children of the neighborhood she lives in. Then the school was transformed into a major learning center for tens of children of Dakar, willing to learn the holy Qur'an.

التجربة الدعوية

قامت مريم انياس سنة 1975 بإنشاء مؤسسة أهلية لتعليم القرآن الكريم أطلقت عليها "دار القرآن الكريم"، وقد ساهم الدعم المالي الذي تلقته من أمراء ورجال أعمال خليجيين لاحقا في توسعة المدرسة، إذ تقدر طاقتها الاستيعابية بحوالي 1600 طالب (حسب معطيات المؤسسة لعام 2014).

Da'awah (Deen Advocacy) Experience

Sayydah Mariam had established a civil society institution for teaching the holy Qur'an and named it "Darul Qur'anul Kareem". In fact she had obtained financial support from kings and businessmen in the gulf regions (including Saudi Arabia) for the school expansion project.

Her students capacity was estimated at about 1600 (according to the 2014 foundation data).

وقد خرجت المدرسة على مدار السنوات الأخيرة المئات من حملة القرآن الكريم من السنغال ودول أفريقية مجاورة مثل غامبيا وغينيا بيساو. ويأتي طلبة "دار القرآن الكريم" في "طليعة" الطلبة الأفارقة الذين يشاركون في المسابقات الدولية لتحفيظ القرآن الكريم.

Hundreds of students from Senegal and from neighboring Africa nations like Gambia and Guinea Bissau who had memorized the holy Qur'an have graduated from the school in the past years. And the students of "Darul Qur'anul Kareem" would always be outstanding or at the forefront among the African students who would participate in the international Quranic competitions for memorization of the holy Qur'an.

لم يتوقف جهد مريم انياس في نشر الثقافة الإسلامية والعربية في البلاد على تأسيس مدرسة "دار القرآن الكريم"، بل وضعت اللبنة الأولى لـ"مجمع شيخ الإسلام الحاج إبراهيم انياس التعليمي" في داكار سنة 1984. ويعتبر المجمع من أهم المؤسسات المحلية لتعليم العلوم الإسلامية والعربية بمنطقة غربي أفريقيا.

The effort of Sayydah Mariam was not limited to spreading the Islamic culture and Arabic (language) in the country on establishing "Darul Qur'anul Kareem" alone, but she laid the first building block for "Sheikh Ibrahim Niass Educational Complex" in Dakar in 1984. And the complex is considered among the most significant local institutions for Islamic and Arabic teachings within the west African sub-region.

قامت مريم بالعديد من الرحلات العلمية في عدة بلدان أفريقية في إطار أنشطة منظمة العالم الإسلامي التي كان والدها أحد أعضائها المؤسسين، كما أشرفت على تسيير عدة رحلات إلى الحج لمواطنين من دول غربي أفريقيا، وذلك بالتعاون مع بعض فاعلي الخير في دول الخليج العربي.

Sayydah Mariam (just like her father) embarked upon numerous educational trips in many African countries, within the framework of the activities of the Islamic World Organization, which her father happened to be one of its founding members. She as well facilitated so many trips of hajj or pilgrimage (to Makkah) for west Africa citizens. And that was with the help of some philanthropists in the Arabia gulf nations. 

تجاوز تأثير مريم انياس -بفضل شبكة علاقاتها الخارجية- المجال التعليمي كما تخطى الإطار المحلي، فقد  ساهمت

في حل بعض الأزمات الدبلوماسية التي واجهت السنغال في العقود الأخيرة.

Sayyadah Mariam Niass have had an overriding impact, by virtue of her overseas network or leverage. The educational field also exceeded the local framework. In fact she contributed in resolving some of the diplomatic crises facing Senegal in recent decades.

ومن هذه الجهود قيامها بوساطة بين السنغال وإيران أفضت إلى استئناف علاقاتهما الدبلوماسية سنة 1990 بعد قطعها 1986. كما أدت دورا في استئناف العلاقات الدبلوماسية بين السنغال والسودان سنة 1999 إثر تجميدها بسبب خلافات بين الطرفين.

And part of this effort was her mediation or reconciliation between Senegal and Iran, which led to the resumption of their diplomatic relations in 1990 after they were curtailed in 1986. She as well played a major role in the mediation of the diplomatic relations between Senegal and Sudan in 1999. After it was frozen due to the differences between the two.

الأوسمة والجوائز

اختيرت مريم انياس في يونيو/حزيران 2007 ضمن 300 شخصية عالمية للمشاركة في حوار مسيحي/يهودي/إسلامي نظمته جامعة كامبردج البريطانية تحت عنوان: "الإسلام والمسلمون في عالم اليوم"

Honors & Awards

Sayyadah Mariam was chosen or handpicked to be among 300 global icons or prominent personalities to get involve in Christian/Jewish/Muslim dialogue in July of 2007, which was organized by the University of Cambridge in Great Britain under the theme: "ISLAM & MUSLIMS IN TODAY's WORLD".

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SAYYDAH MARIAM IBRAHIM NIASS AL-KAOLACKI'S INTERVIEW WITH A JOURNALIST

ALLAH SARKI....THE PICTURE OF BAYE AND NANA MARIAM BELOW WAS WHEN SHE CAME WITH HIM TO ACCRA, GHANA BACK THE DAYS...MAY ALLAH CONTNUE TO SHOWER THEM WITH HIS ABUNDANCE ETERNAL MERCY....!!!

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ON THE OCCASION OF HER BIRTHDAY, OUR BELOVED MOM SAYYDAH MARIAM IBRAHIM NIASS AL-KAOLACKI IN AN INTERVIEW WITH  A JOURNALIST REVEALED HOW SHE WAS NAMED MARIAM, AS WELL AS THE UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP SHE HAD HAD WITH SHEIKH AND HER YOUNGER BROTHER PAPA LAMIN!

عيد ميلاد سعيد ياسيدة الشيخة مريم بنت الشيخ إبراهيم انياس( خادمة القرآن الكريم )  

Happy birthday to Sayyadah Sheikha Mariyam Daughter of Maulana Sheikh Ibrahim Niass 

(Servant of the Qur'an)

# يحكى أن تاريخ ولادة الشيخة مريم انياس ، كانت الشيخ الإسلام الحاج إبراهيم انياس يقوم بتفسير القرآن الكريم .

كان قد أنهى التفسير سورة 18 الكهف قبل أن يبدأ سورة 19 مريم (مريم والدة عيسى عليه السلام) ، وأعلن له ولادة طفله.

# The story of the birth of Sayyadah Sheikhat Mariam Niass was narrated as, when Sheikhul Islam Ibrahim Niass was delivering tafsir or Quranic exegesis. So it happened that he just completed the tafsir of suratul Kahfi (the Cave 18) before he started the tafsir of suratu Mariam (Merry 19, Mariam mother of Issah Alail Salam), and the news about the birth of his baby was revealed to him.

سأل الشيخ إبراهيم انياس  عن جنس الطفل ، فقالوا له إنها فتاة.

قال إنني كنت أتوقع أن يكون لي ولد ، لكنها ستعيش ويكون لها مكانها بين الرجال ، وتتنافس معهم على المعرفة والاحترام والتقوى. وهكذا حمل الطفل الاسم الأول لمريم. نفس الاسم الأول لوالدة عيسى عليه السلام.

Sheikh Ibrahim Niass asked about the gender of the baby and they said she is a girl.

He said: However, I was hoping to have a boy, but she will grow up and have an outstanding position among men. And she will compete among them in knowledge, honor and piety. So this is how the baby had the name Mariam, same name of the mother of Issah Alail Salam.

روت الشيخة مريم بنت الشيخ إبراهيم انياس - حفظها الله ورعاها - علاقاته مع والدها في هذه الشروط في مقابلة.

Sheikhat Mariam the daughter of Sheikh Ibrahim Niass narrated her relationship with her father in an interview:

لقد قضيت الكثير من الأوقات الجيدة إلى جانب الشيخ إبراهيم انياس ولا أملك سوى ذكريات غير عادية معه.

كأب ، أحبني كثيرًا وكان دائمًا يحظى باحترام خاص بالنسبة لي.

I have spent more time being closer to Sheikh Ibrahim Niass and I could not remember but only some uncommon instances with him. Like a father, he loved me so much and extended special respect to me.

في الواقع ، عندما كان عمري 5 سنوات فقط ، قال الشيخ إبراهيم انياس إنه يريد أن يتولى شخصيًا مسؤولية تعليم القرآن.

In fact, when I became only five years of age, 

Sheikh Ibrahim Niass said he wants to have a person to take the responsibility of my Quranic studies.

في وقت الحج الأول إلى مكة ، قرر والدي أن يسلمني إلى شخص آخر ، حيث كان الوصول إلى مكة في تلك الأوقات محنة صعبة ، حتى أن الحجاج ماتوا أثناء الرحلة.

ثم أوكلني الشيخ إبراهيم انياس  إلى موريتاني يدعى أحمد ولد رباني ليعلمني القرآن.

So during his first hajj or pilgrimage to Makkah, Sheikh decided to leave me in the hands of another person, as the route and terrain to Makkah during those days was so difficult a task, to an extent that pilgrims would die in the course of the trip.

So Sheikh assigned a Muritanian teacher called Ahmad Wulud Rabbani to teach me the Qur'an.

واصلت معه حتى عاد والدي من مكة.

بعد ذلك ، جئت لأتقن القرآن بالكامل ، بينما علمني الشيخ إبراهيم انياس جنبًا إلى جنب مع بعض أسرار الكتاب المقدس.

ثم جاء دور أحمد ثيام ليضمن الجزء الباطني.

So I continued with him until my father returned from Makkah.

After that, I returned back to him to be able to master the Qur'an completely. And Sheikh taught me the Qur'an along with some divine secret of the sacred Book. 

Then came the role of Ahmad Cham to imbibe in me the esoterical (batiniyah) aspect of it.

عندما جئت لإتقان القرآن بالكامل ، كان والدي سعيدًا جدًا لأنه أعطاني صندوقين من الذهب.

So when I finally came to revise the entire Qur'an (by memory in front of him), my father was excited and he even donated to me two boxes of golden (jewelry).

دللني والدي كثيرًا لدرجة أنه كثيرًا ما اصطحبني معه في رحلاته.

My father pampered me so much that, more often (than not), he would take me with him on his trips (outside the country). 

إلى جانب تعلمي للقرآن ، كان والدي دائمًا يراقب روحانيتي ، وفي سن الخامسة عشر أخذت ورد الطريقة التجانية وهي إحدى نقاط الانطلاق لتعليم الشيخ أحمد تيجان و الشيخ إبراهيم انياس .

In terms of my Quranic studies, my father was monitoring my spirit (to see how motivated I was). So at 15 years of age, I accepted the (wird) litany of the sufi path of tijjaniyah, which is one of the starting points for the teachings of Sheikh Ahmadal Tijjani and Sheikh Ibrahim Niass.

وقبل أن أتزوج ، تأكد والدي من أنني قمت بتربية ، أي البحث عن الله وأسراره التي لا تعد ولا تحصى ".

And before I got married, my father made sure that I passed through the stages of "tarbiyah", spiritual tutelage, which is a quest for the divine knowledge of Allah and his mysteries which are countless.

في سن السادسة عشرة ، افتتحت أول ظهرة لها وبدأت بتعليم القرآن.

And at 16 years of age, she opened her own center and started teaching the Qur'an.

وقال شقيقها فضيلة الشيخ محمد الأمين الشيخ إبراهيم انياس( بابا ) :

" لقد فقدت والدتي في وقت مبكر جدًا وأسراني الشيخ إبراهيم انياس  لأختي ، وهي أمي ، لقد علمتني القرآن . كل ما تفعله الأم لطفلها ، فعلته لي ، عندما كان من المفترض أن أتزوج ، اختارت زوجتي ".

And her younger brother his eminence Sheikh Muhammadul Amin Ibrahim Niass (Baba) said:

"I had lost my mother at a very tender age and Sheikh left me under the care of my sister, and she (became) my mother (by action). She taught me the Qur'an. And whatever a mother would do to her child she did to me. Even when it became necessary for me to get married, she chose my wive for me."

سُمِّيتْ بخادمة القرآن ، جملتان تحددان شخصية الشيخة مريم بنت الشيخ إبراهيم انياس :

She was named khadimatul Qur'an or servant of the Qur'an, two sentences that indicate the personality of Sheikhat Mariam, daughter of Sheikh Ibrahim Niass:

قالت أنها تحب القرآن وتعاليمه كثيرا ، وتستمد كل سعادتها من تعليم القرآن للأطفال.

She said she loves the Qur'an a lot. Besides, she drives all her happiness by teaching children the Qur'an.

عيد ميلاد سعيد لهذه السيدة العظيمة 🤩

We wish eminently Sayyadah happy birthdayl 

عمرا مديدا بالصحة الدائمة بفضل الله  !!!

More years to come in constant health with the divine virtue of Allah !!!

# أخبار الفيضة التجانية ، تهنئكِ بِعيد ميلادكِ سعيد #

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LETTER OF SHEIKH IBRAHIM NYASS TO AN ARABIC MAGAZINE

A LETTER OF SHEIKH IBRAHIM NIASS TO AN ARABIC MAGAZINE ON THE OCCASION OFTHE  WORLD ARABIC LANGUAGE DAY IN 1969.....!!!

بمناسبة الْيَوْم العالمي للغة العربية، يقول: الشيخ إبراهيم نياس في إحدى رسائله

On the Occasion of the World Arabic Language Day, Sheikh Ibrahim Niass wrote in one of his epistles: 

.....وأنا أرى بكل صراحة أن اللغة العربية على عظمتها ورغم خصائصها التي لا تنكر، ما كانت لتخرج من جزيرتها لولا هذا الحدث الضخم الذي تمّ بفضل الله منذ أربعة عشر قرنا.. وهو نزول القرآن الكريم بلسان عربي مبين، ذلك الكتاب العزيز الذي سارتْ العربية في موْكبه حيثُما اتّجه فأصبحتْ بسببه لغة عالمية يُعنى بها ويقدسها جميع المسلمين في المشارق والمغارب.

.....And frankly speaking, I think the greatness and exclusivity of the Arabic language which is undeniable, it would not have emerged out of its root (Saudi Arabia), had it not been the significance event which had occurred with the divine virtue of Allah since fourteen centuries ago...which is the revelation of the holy Qur'an with the clear and concise Arabic tongue...That noble book which Arabic became its conveyor wherever it would head towards. Hence it became a global language which is being revered by Muslims from the western and eastern (parts of the world). 

وأذكر أني قد قمت سنة 1963 برحلة من سنغال بغرب إفريقيا إلى الصين بأقصى الشرق، فما حللت ببلد إلا وجدت فيه من يكلمني بعربية فصيحةٍ بليغةٍ ويُحييني بتحية الإسلام.

And I remember in 1963 I embarked on a trip from Senegal in west Africa to China in the far east, I would never make a stopover in a country without finding a person speaking eloquent and fluent Arabic to me and great me with the Islamic greetings.

لاجرم أنه لولا هذا القرآن الكريم لبقيت العربية لغة إقليميةً محصورةً، وإذا كُتب لأدبها أن ينمو ويتطور فسوف يكون على مستوى أدب جارتها الفارسية... فاللغة الفارسية لغة أدب وفنًّ وفلسفة منذ قديم، ولكنها ظلّت لغة إقليمية قلّ من يعرفها من غير أبنائها.

Inarguably, had it not been this Qur'an, the Arabic language would have remained a regionally limited and confined language. So when it is written for it's literary sense for it to grow and develop, it would still remain on the literary level of its neighbor the Persian language (Farisi)...For the Persian language is a language of literature, art and philosophy for a long time. It however remains a regional language, where only few know it apart from it's own people.

وأما لغة الضاد فقد انطلقت من أسْر الاقليمية كما قلت، منذ أن جعلها الله جلّتْ قدرته لغة التنزيل ولسان الوحي وأساس الإسلام وترجمان عباداته ورباط الروح. فهي- والحال هذه - لغة تستمدُّ شرفها وتستقي روافدها أساسا من الإسلام ولا تضمن لنفسها بقاء ولا خلودا إلا بهذا الإسلام. وهذه حقيقة لا تحتاج إلى برهان اللهم إلا إذا احتاج النهار إلى دليل.

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However, as for the "duad" (Arabic) language, it has moved from being a regional language as I said, since Allah Almighty made it the language of the revelation, the tongue of revelation, the origin of Islam and the interpreter of his servants and the bond of the spirit. It is a language which draws its honor and tributaries away from Islam. And it has no guarantee of its own existence forever except with this (religion of) Islam. And this is a reality that doesn't need any evidence, unless the sun needs any proof (to establish its reality of appearance). 

من رسالة لشيخ الإسلام وسعادة الأنام إلى مكتب تنسيق التعريب في العالم العربي نقلته مجلة " آثار " عن مجلة " اللسان العربي " بتاريخ يناير 1969.

A letter of Sheikh Ibrahim to the office of coordination of arabization (policy) in the Arabic world, which culled by "Archives" magazine from "The Tongue of Arab" magazine, in January 1969.

من كتاب ماذا عن الشيخ إبراهيم لمؤلفه الشيخ محمد الشيخ عبد الله ص 231 و 232

From the book: What (Do you know) About Sheikh Ibrahim Niass...

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