Visiting Mauritania & meeting Shaykh Murabit Al-Hajj (HA)

Visiting Mauritania & meeting Shaykh Murabit Al-Hajj (HA)

Shaykh (Mufti) Abdur-Rahman Ibn Yusuf Mangera (HA)

1. Eleventh largest country in the Maghreb region of western North Africa , and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, by Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest.
2. The population is nearly 3.9 million who are almost 100% Muslims and almost all of them are Sunni. In Fiqh the Madhab of Imam Malik (RA) is followed.
3. Gained independence from France on the 28^th of November 1960
4. Spoken languages are Zenaga Berber & French

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