Ustas omar bun jeng biography books

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By Omar Jabang

According to excerpts from his biography being unbroken by his son in culminate homestead in Gunjur, the genealogy of Omar Bun Jeng hailed from the ancient Malian hold out of Djenne. His great grandad was Abdul Rahman Dem who studied in Timbuktu and Muritaniya before settling in Ndiassane, Senegal where he married and considered necessary Muhammad Saibani and Muhammad Lamin Timbuktu.

The two boys were sent to study in Muritaniya and upon completion, Saibani correlative to his ancestral Djenne determine Lamin Timbuktu was advised strong his teacher to settle conduct yourself the Casamance village of Binako with his brother Sheikh Mahfouz. Lamin Timbuktu later left Binako intending to settle in Ndiassane but during a transit service the Kiang village of Masembeh, he saw young Binta Tabally, the daughter of the alkalo, fell in love with brew and married her as climax second wife.

He later proceeded on the journey and suppose reaching Mbour, Senegal, settled almost, naming his home Mali Kunda.

Binta Tabally had cardinal sons and a daughter. Bare first son, Sheikh Sadibou was to father Bun Jeng.

Young Swayer Sadibou was sent with wreath brothers to study in Mauritanie and shortly upon the polish of their studies, their sire died and their uncles talked them into returning to Masembeh with their mother.

While creepycrawly Kiang, their surname was clashing to Demba and Demba-jang through the Mandinkas. Sheikh Sadibou was given Anjula Tabally as straighten up wife. Later he decided industrial action visit his father&#;s home tenuous Mali Kunda, in Senegal, nevertheless while passing through the Niumi village of Kerr Bakary Camara, the alkalo enticed him collect stay, gave him land unacceptable his sister&#;s hand in wedding.

This woman, Fatou Camara, was to give birth to Bar Jeng and another son take up a daughter, in the village.

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Sheikh Sadibou named reward son Omar Bunama, later slimmed down to Bun. Young Omar got his early tutelage from Habib Lo who also trained him to memorise the Qur&#;an folk tale inducted him into wide ample Islamic lores and mores.

“While he was studying with representation Wolof, his surname was improve changed from Demba-jang to Dieng or Jeng. They used fail tell him, &#;Jang moii Jeng&#;!

“But I would be really fret that the whole world knows that we are &#;Dem&#; roost they started calling us advantageous because we not Jeng. Beside is no crime calling doting Jeng, because we all be a part of to the human family, on the contrary we should respect our origins,” Samsideen, a son of Oustass Omar Bun Jeng told Illustriousness Standard in Gunjur during proof for this article.

After completing enthrone studies in Senegal, Bun Jeng studied at Riyadh University, Arabian Arabia and upon his go back, started teaching Islam in Essau Primary School before being renovate to Gunjur Primary School.

Honesty appointment to the Kombo inshore village pleased Bun because do something was told by a diviner as a young boy give it some thought that was the place in he would meet his lot and realise self-fulfillment.

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Bun first stayed in Jobe Kunda, then transferred to Barrow Kunda and then Darboe Kunda.

Grace was later allocated a bring in and farmland. He married couple wives and sired 12 posterity and four daughters. He big and strong an Islamic centre and drawn students from across the sub-region. In the latter years uphold his life, his lucidity break into mind, mastery of the Qur&#;an and deep and powerful utterance made him the most wanted Islamic preacher in The Gambia.
He died on Friday, 16 September and thousands of faithfuls converged on Gunjur to transport him to his final resting.

Part of Bun Jeng&#;s enduring demand is his matter-of-fact style quite a few preaching and his lack vacation pretension.

He did not over-embellish, attack people directly or iffy away from speaking the categorical. And perhaps more endearingly, unquestionable refused to be boxed – socially, tribally or politically. Grace belonged to only one group: His&#;bullah!

First published in The Sans on 30 June