Maulana rumi history in urdu

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By Omar Jabang

According to excerpts from his biography being kept by his son in his homestead in Gunjur, the ancestors of Omar Bun Jeng hailed from the ancient Malian city of Djenne.

His great grandfather was Abdul Rahman Dem who studied in Timbuktu and Mauritania before settling in Ndiassane, Senegal where he married and sired Muhammad Saibani and Muhammad Lamin Timbuktu. The two boys were sent to study in Mauritania and upon completion, Saibani returned to his ancestral Djenne while Lamin Timbuktu was advised by his teacher to settle in the Casamance village of Binako with his brother Sheikh Mahfouz.

Lamin Timbuktu later left Binako intending to settle in Ndiassane but during a transit through the Kiang village of Masembeh, he saw young Binta Tabally, the daughter of the alkalo, fell in love with her and married her as his second wife.

He later proceeded on the journey and upon reaching Mbour, Senegal, settled there, naming his hom