Respected By Mourides
Bamba's followers call him a "renewer" (mujaddid in Arabic) of Islam, citing a hadith that implies that God will send renewers of the faith every 100 years (the members of all the Senegalese brotherhoods claim that their founders were such renewers).
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“Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.”
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