After Sheikh Ibrahim’s
father death, Sheikh Abdullahi returned to Kaolaq to offer his condolences to
the family. He chose to be accommodated in Sheikh Ibrahim’s room which provided
him with the opportunity for the guest to give his host the glad tidings of his
spiritual position and transfer privileged of Sheikh Tijjani secrets to young
Sheikh Ibrahim. He was however warned not to disclose his status to anyone
until the permission reached him of his own death which sheikh complied. After
some years, Sheikh Abdullahi, the father of Sheikh Ibrahim passed to his Creator
which made the Sheikh declared "as the spiritual inheritor and Halifa of Sheikh
Ahmad Tijjani (R.T.A): The Sohibul Faydatul Tijjaniyya
during the Mauled of the Prophet Muhammad in 1929. His eldest brother and Halifa
of their late father asked whether the Sheikh Ibrahim was well to which he
responded in the affirmative. He (his brother and Halifa of their father) then
declared that the Jinns have affected Ibrahim and that people should assist in
exorcizing Ibrahim’s Jinns. The Sheikh insisted he is sound in body and mind
and said all he said was with authority of Shehidina Muhammad (S.A.w)
The Halifa denied him outright and instructed his students to do likewise. Sheikh Ibrahim continued to call people to Allah and teaching them all forms of Islamic sciences and Tasowuf the spiritual knowledge. He met stiff resistance and decided to relocate to Kóosi a village founded by his father where he continued his Islamic and spiritual mission. He attracted large followers from all parts of Africa who had come to drink from his ocean of knowledge and spiritual dimension.
After much opposition and oppression, Sheikh Ibrahim decided to migrate away from Kaolaq and find his own settlement due to the difficulties he and his students were experiencing in carrying out their religious (ISLAM) and other daily activities. On a fateful morning after the Morning prayers, he informed his students and all those who wish to follow him to leave Kaolaq. After obtaining permission from the colonial officers governing of Kaolaq administrative area, he migrated about three miles to east of Kaolaq and camped by a big tree which was to become his home till date. His town is now called Madinat Kaolaq. Sheikh Ibrahim was a distinguished member and official of global Islamic organizations such as the Islamic World Congress in Pakistan of which Sheikh was vice president and Academy of Islamic Studies in Egypt for which he was a highly respected contributor. He was a co-founder of the Muslim World League, and a member of General Islamic Conference for Jerusalem, Association of Islamic Universities based in Morocco and High Islamic Council in Algeria. He attended various Islamic international conventions whose central them was mostliy on call to Islam.
He was not only an erudite and versatile scholar but also a writer who has written up to 75 books on various subjects including Arabic language and grammar, Islamic ethics, Tasowuf (Islamic mysticism), (life of the noble Prophet Muhammad S.A.W), Tafsir (Quranic explanations) among many other Islamic disciplines which he treated with high competence and excellence. He was a poet of the highest order composing some eight anthologies. Due to Sheikh Ibrahim knowledge and understanding of Islam, he was awarded the title of Sheikh Islam by the eminent head of the Al-Azhar University Cairo in Egypt. This title is only given to Islamic scholars who have attained a level of competence and in at least 25 disciplines in Islam. Sheikh Ibrahim advocated for mass education for both males and females. In reference to this, Sheikh said in a speech that “women should compete with men in knowledge” because of this, women of the path are found to be well versed in Qur'an and Hadith. Suffice to say that all his female children have memorized the entire Qur'an and are Islamic scholars in their own rights who engage in continuous education of women and children throughout the Africa. He also established a Zawiyya (Islamic study center) in his hometown of Kaolaq which has now developed into an institute that is affiliated with one University in Cairo which thousands of students all over the world attend to complete their studies now.
The Halifa denied him outright and instructed his students to do likewise. Sheikh Ibrahim continued to call people to Allah and teaching them all forms of Islamic sciences and Tasowuf the spiritual knowledge. He met stiff resistance and decided to relocate to Kóosi a village founded by his father where he continued his Islamic and spiritual mission. He attracted large followers from all parts of Africa who had come to drink from his ocean of knowledge and spiritual dimension.
After much opposition and oppression, Sheikh Ibrahim decided to migrate away from Kaolaq and find his own settlement due to the difficulties he and his students were experiencing in carrying out their religious (ISLAM) and other daily activities. On a fateful morning after the Morning prayers, he informed his students and all those who wish to follow him to leave Kaolaq. After obtaining permission from the colonial officers governing of Kaolaq administrative area, he migrated about three miles to east of Kaolaq and camped by a big tree which was to become his home till date. His town is now called Madinat Kaolaq. Sheikh Ibrahim was a distinguished member and official of global Islamic organizations such as the Islamic World Congress in Pakistan of which Sheikh was vice president and Academy of Islamic Studies in Egypt for which he was a highly respected contributor. He was a co-founder of the Muslim World League, and a member of General Islamic Conference for Jerusalem, Association of Islamic Universities based in Morocco and High Islamic Council in Algeria. He attended various Islamic international conventions whose central them was mostliy on call to Islam.
He was not only an erudite and versatile scholar but also a writer who has written up to 75 books on various subjects including Arabic language and grammar, Islamic ethics, Tasowuf (Islamic mysticism), (life of the noble Prophet Muhammad S.A.W), Tafsir (Quranic explanations) among many other Islamic disciplines which he treated with high competence and excellence. He was a poet of the highest order composing some eight anthologies. Due to Sheikh Ibrahim knowledge and understanding of Islam, he was awarded the title of Sheikh Islam by the eminent head of the Al-Azhar University Cairo in Egypt. This title is only given to Islamic scholars who have attained a level of competence and in at least 25 disciplines in Islam. Sheikh Ibrahim advocated for mass education for both males and females. In reference to this, Sheikh said in a speech that “women should compete with men in knowledge” because of this, women of the path are found to be well versed in Qur'an and Hadith. Suffice to say that all his female children have memorized the entire Qur'an and are Islamic scholars in their own rights who engage in continuous education of women and children throughout the Africa. He also established a Zawiyya (Islamic study center) in his hometown of Kaolaq which has now developed into an institute that is affiliated with one University in Cairo which thousands of students all over the world attend to complete their studies now.
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