Editing Layene (section)

==Beliefs and practices==
Layene beliefs and practices include the normal five pillars of [[Islam]], with some additional obligations recommended by Seydina Limamou Laye. For instance, prior to each of the five daily prayers, they wash not only their feet but up to their knees as well, and practice ''zikr'' before and after each prayer. 

They hold a weekly ceremony called the ''chants religieux'' that begins shortly before midnight on Saturday and continues until the dawn prayer on Sunday. The ''chants religieux'' consist of energetic sermons and loud [[Dhikr|zikr]] (Wolof: ''sikkar'').

Many in the Layene community will arrange for their newborn daughters to be married at the time of their naming ceremonies, often to a young son of a friend. These marriages are binding, but when the children reach adulthood they are able to choose whether to continue in the marriage, or divorce (without stigma) and marry another community member or another person she chooses and loves.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Riley|first=Emily|title=Terànga and the Art of Hospitality: Engendering the Nation, Politics, and Religion in Dakar, Senegal|publisher=Doctoral Dissertation|year=2016|location=Michigan State University|pages=164}}</ref> Newborn boys are circumcised on the day of their baptism (i.e. on the seventh day after birth). Many women choose to pray in the mosque for Friday prayer.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Thomas|first=Douglas|title=Sufism, Mahdism and Nationalism: Limamou Laye and the Layennes of Senegal.|publisher=Continuum|year=2012|location=New York|pages=114}}</ref> There is a place for women to pray inside any Layene mosque, and children are also encouraged to pray in the mosque.

People in the community wear white during events. In addition, it is customary to take the symbolic last name "Laye" - derived from Allah - in order to flatten social hierarchies and support the teaching that all humans are equal in the eyes of God.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Thomas|first=Douglas|title=Sufism, Mahdism and Nationalism: Limamou Laye and the Layennes of Senegal.|publisher=Continuum|year=2012|location=New York|pages=127}}</ref>