My blog is going backward!! I have to go back in time a little and show you some of the shots I got from the camera of Dawud, a Norwegian brother who visited Tuemret after Ramadan 2007.
Above, you can see brother Mokhtar holding a tablet, or lawh,used widely in West Africa to memorise texts, may it be Quran, grammar or jurisprudence, everything in Mauritania is memorized!
In Tuemret running water is available alhamdulillah. Some students have a tap installed next to their tents. And some don't; thus transporting water in jerikan becomes part of one's daily life. Day of duty for brothers Ibrahim and Sayiduna.
This is an overview of the "centre" of Tuemeret. You can see the new mosque in the middle, with its minaret. On its right, the house of Shaykh Hademine, the senior teacher and imam of the mosque (May God give him long life and make us benefit from his teachings). On the left of the mosque, in front of that white building (library of Murabit al Hajj), you have a blue tent. This is where our honnourable shaykh Murabit al Hajj bin Salek bin Fahfu lives. He is a living wali according to people who had the chance to study with him. Yet, look where he lives! In the middle of the desert under a tent!
That person (May Allah extend his life and give him good health) has renounced this world and has taught, so I heard, over 30.000 people! All his life was dedicated to teaching and anticipation to meet his Lord; yet today, his earthly provision comes to him almost on a daily basis, through donnations of his numerous Mauritanian visitors. Even the prime minister of Mauritania - visited the place this year.
Most of the students in Tuemret are kids... Mauritania is a tribal country. Thus when a student comes to a school -mahdhara- he joins the people from his own tribe, study, sleep and eat with them.
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