Tazawoudou Sikhar, Provisions for the Youth : Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba

By introducing most of his works on Religious Sciences, the author, in this case CHEIKH AHMADOU BAMBA, announces himself in these terms: '' Ahmad, the spiritual indigent, son of Ahmad ... '' or ' 'Ahmad, descendant of Habiballah of the MBacke family ...' 'or even' 'MOUHAMMAD, son of his spiritual master MOUHAMMAD ...' '
From his real name MOUHAMMAD ben MOUHAMMAD ben Habiballah, CHEIKH AHMADOU BAMBA came to us from the Grace of GOD in the month of Muharram in the year 1272.h, that is to say the year 1855, in Mbacke, a locality located in the Baol region of Senegal. kingdoms.
Founded by his grandfather, the village bears the name of the MBacke family, whose well-known piety earned them a particular religious influence, respect and veneration for the FACE of GOD.
Men of high culture and a strict orthodoxy in assimilating Islamic cultural values, they made the village of MBacke an academic center and a spiritual capital.
The father of CHEIKH, MOUHAMMAD MBacke, called Momar Anta Saly, was an eminent jurisconsult, a devotee who taught the Koran and the Religious Sciences; her mother, MARIAMA BOUSSO, thanks to her piety, her virtue and her scruple, had the privilege of answering in the name of "Jaratu-l-Lah" (neighbor of GOD) in the midst of her family.
His parents very early on discovered in him an innate perfection which was reflected in attitudes and habits of piety, good moral conduct, devotion, loneliness, meditation and behavior abhorrent fun, indecency and the sin.
Wherever he went during his studies, after having perfectly assimilated the QURAN, whether for the acquisition of Religious or Instrumental Sciences such as Grammar, Prosody, Rhetoric, etc., he was unanimously recognized as an intellectual perfection which does not could only result from a light coming from GOD ...