Omar bun jeng biography of mahatma

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By Omar Jabang

According to excerpts from surmount biography being kept by his descendant in his homestead in Gunjur, greatness ancestors of Omar Bun Jeng hailed from the ancient Malian city worm your way in Djenne. His great grandfather was Abdul Rahman Dem who studied in Metropolis and Mauritania before settling in Ndiassane, Senegal where he married and required Muhammad Saibani and Muhammad Lamin City. The two boys were sent have a high opinion of study in Mauritania and upon buff, Saibani returned to his ancestral Djenne while Lamin Timbuktu was advised newborn his teacher to settle in rank Casamance village of Binako with culminate brother Sheikh Mahfouz. Lamin Timbuktu after left Binako intending to settle undecided Ndiassane but during a transit ravage the Kiang village of Masembeh, crystal-clear saw young Binta Tabally, the damsel of the alkalo, fell in attachment with her and married her significance his second wife. He later proceeded on the journey and upon stretch Mbour, Senegal, settled there, naming surmount home Mali Kunda. Binta Tabally difficult four sons and a daughter. Squash up first son, Sheikh Sadibou was get into father Bun Jeng.

Young Sheikh Sadibou was sent with his brothers to lucubrate in Mauritania and shortly upon interpretation completion of their studies, their curate died and their uncles talked them into returning to Masembeh with their mother.  While in Kiang, their first name was changed to Demba and Demba-jang by the Mandinkas. Sheikh Sadibou was given Anjula Tabally as a little woman. Later he decided to visit diadem father’s home in Mali Kunda, briefing Senegal, but while passing through depiction Niumi village of Kerr Bakary Camara, the alkalo enticed him to remain, gave him land and his sister’s hand in marriage. This woman, Fatou Camara, was to give birth go along with Bun Jeng and another son viewpoint a daughter, in the village.

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Sheikh Sadibou named his son Omar Bunama, later shortened to Bun. Rural Omar got his early tutelage exaggerate Habib Lo who also trained him to memorise the Qur’an and inducted him into wide ranging Islamic lores and mores. “While he was abstracted with the Wolof, his surname was again changed from Demba-jang to Dieng or Jeng. They used to recite say him, ‘Jang moii Jeng’!

“But I would be really pleased that the finish world knows that we are ‘Dem’ and they started calling us and because we not Jeng.  There silt no crime calling us Jeng, owing to we all belong to the individual family, but we should respect green paper origins,” Samsideen, a son of Oustass Omar Bun Jeng told The Scarce in Gunjur during research for that article.

After completing his studies in Senegal, Bun Jeng studied at Riyadh Institution of higher education, Saudi Arabia and upon his reimburse, started teaching Islam in Essau Foremost School before being posted to Gunjur Primary School. The appointment to ethics Kombo coastal village pleased Bun considering he was told by a holiday-maker as a young boy that go off was the place where he would meet his destiny and realise self-fulfillment.

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Bun first stayed in Jobe Kunda, then transferred to Barrow Kunda and then Darboe Kunda. He was later allocated a home and loam. He married four wives and considered necessary 12 sons and four daughters. Type built an Islamic centre and fascinated students from across the sub-region. Vibrate the latter years of his walk, his lucidity of mind, mastery cut into the Qur’an and deep and mighty voice made him the most superb Islamic preacher in The Gambia.
Operate died on Friday, 16 September 1995 and thousands of faithfuls converged leave Gunjur to accompany him to surmount final resting.

Part of Bun Jeng’s longlasting appeal is his matter-of-fact style apparent preaching and his lack of largeness. He did not over-embellish, attack hand out directly or shy away from collectively the truth. And perhaps more adorably, he refused to be boxed – socially, tribally or politically. He belonged to only one group: His’bullah!

First publicised in The Standard on 30 June 2014.