By Lamin Njie
A member of the Secken sect Yunusa Ceesay has told the TRRC Serign Ndigal stopped praying after a revelation from God.
Serign Ndigal was a top cleric in Kerr Mot Ali in Upper Saloum, whose version of Islam includes not performing the five daily prayers.
The cleric had a followership base of at least 5000 in The Gambia and Senegal.
Yunusa Ceesay who was a student of the scholar appeared before the TRRC on Wednesday and told the probe Serign Ndigal whose real name was Mahamadou Habibullah Secka, was a true man of God who was instructed by God in 2002 to stop praying.
Mr Ceesay said: “Ndigal was following the Sarihatul Mutahhar (the version of Islam that involves praying), that was the way all of us were following. When it was time for prayers, by the time nine minutes have added to the prayers time, that would have found that all of us have prayed. Anyone who knew us knew no one could match us when it comes to praying.
“But after the living room, is the bedroom. It then pleased God [and] we ventured into another way of Islam. The people we were with were confused because we entered a place that they were yet to understand. That was what brought about the misunderstanding. We stayed calm knowing that we knew what they didn’t know, that one day everything will become clearer. So it was in 2002 that Ndigal stopped praying as in the Allahu Akbar prayer.”
