Sheikh Shamil Biography

Born in the end of G. in his youth studied with Alim Said al-Kharakan, who was the Ocean of Knowledge was friends with a brave man, a marten of Gazi-Muhammad. Together with him, he went to the province of Kura in the village of Verkhny Yarag to receive the Nakshubandi tari-taric from Sheikh Muhammad Afandi, who was a follower of Sheikh Has-Muhammad al-Shirvani, a follower of Ismail al-Kurdumiri, a follower of Khalid-Shah al-Bagdadi.

After that, al-Yaragi gave them both permission [to mentoring], and they returned to the Himras. Two young brave men did not show up to the eyes of people for some time and began to zeal in worship and acquisition of knowledge, then they began to preach among people and conduct a struggle with customs that inherited from their ancestors, contradicting the Qur'an and the Sunnah, and not corresponding to common benefits, such as the drinking of wines, which was common at that time, the commission of base deeds.

They also fought against the darkness, from which neither light nor instruction comes, until they bowed the hearts of people to themselves and they liked them. And the brave and brave Gazi-Muhammad entered to imamism, gathered troops to help religion and appointed the brave man Shamil himself as an assistant. Shamil never disobeyed his commandments and Gazi-Muhammad promised to give him command of the army in the attack on Untsukul and Huns.

And Shamil in that battle showed heroism and abilities. Then the soldiers of Russia completely surrounded the Imam Gazi-Muhammad and its followers and supporters in the Hims pass. Gazi-Muhammad fell martyr with a martyr, and Imam Shamil received many wounds and, pretending to be dead, fell between the dead. When he got dark slowly, he began to move towards the nearest grove, and from there to Untsukul.

After that, the wounds healed and he recovered and caught up with the second Imam Gamzat and took part in the murder of the Amiri Avar. After the death of Imam Hamzat-Bek, influential people gathered from all the villages of the accident in the area of ​​Galada and appointed Shamil an imam and the general leader in order to drive the Russians from Dagestan, revive the religion of Islam, disseminate Islamic knowledge, establish justice and equality.

And he took the hero on his shoulders all the affairs of his people, established the court, leaders, gathered and put the army in order, and strengthened it as it corresponds to the time and place, united their union and canceled all the false rites that existed from Sharia at that time. First of all, he began to fight with the lords who were friends with the Russians and who followed him.

He destroyed and eradicated them, and the Avaristan was cleansed with this. After that, the jihad spread and they attacked the Russians and forced them to escape from the majority of the mountains of Dagestan after they were populated there in the mountains, making them a refuge, and having built the towers of which cannot be achieved there. When the Russian Empire felt a threat emanating from Shamil, they set their troops from all sides and surrounded them with the state of Shamil.

It got to the point that Shamil at the end had to take refuge in Ahul-Mo-th-Tally-n-Nakir in Arabic. In this battle, supporters of Shamil showed such a courage from which the heroes were amazed. The siege continued for a long time, while Shamil and a certain number of his supporters and his son, secretly left the mountain to Chechnya. There [in Chechnya] his support and power intensified.

After the position of Shamil was strengthened, the Russian Empire began to be afraid of his influence, which developed, they prepared Vorontsov, supplying him with weapons and a large army, and sent him to Vedeno to find Shamil by surprise. There, Shamil met him with his army, [who] as frowning lions, defeated the Russian troops. The number of people killed in this battle from the Russians reached a person.

These victories became an impetus for the successes and movement of Shamil. Shamil continued to defend his homeland with solid determination, which was not amazed and incomprehensible to weakness, for 25 years. And this is an argument that does not need another argument confirming his ability to manage the war and the ability in the political industry, and you should be enough for the argument about its ability and the ability of its gun, warehouses, his weapons, factories for the manufacture of gunpowder, coal mines and gray -grade mines, etc.

He had an organized army, the number of which reached near the armed military. He had a plant for the manufacture of guns, which was built for him by one of the graduates of the madrassas of Dagestan cities. He also had an extremely perfect treasury, also factories for the manufacture of gunpowder, a factory for the manufacture of powder weapons. Shamil’s superiority and ability indicates that he gathered from the mountain peoples, with different languages ​​and character, an organized army, and with this army resisted for 25 years against the Russian kingdom without weakening.

The Western world was amazed at him, discussed him on the pages of newspapers and in political forums. But due to the fact that they were disliked of the successes with which Allah awarded him, some of his leaders and his supporters leaned towards weakening and cowardice, experienced anger and laziness in their hearts.After Shamil for 10 years with his family was in Russia under her subordination, he went to Hajj and died in Medina in the year in the month of Zul-Caida, according to the Gregorian calendar of the year, and was buried at the Baku cemetery, may Allah have mercy on him.

This was also mentioned by the young writer Muhammad Sayyid al-Avar. Shamil’s story is extensive and known and does not need to clarify and addition. People wrote separate books about this and translated into other languages. He was praised by many people from among scientists and noble persons, he was considered Sheikh-ul-Islam, the imam of religion and the husband of religion, and that all his battles are true, corresponding to just Sharia.

He said, al-Allyama Hassan ad-dimony al-Shafii, a teacher in the venerable Mecca, in his letter, which he made up about the image of Imam Shamil Afandi, the following words: “In general, what Imam Shamil is on is correct and true in following him without a doubt, and he who contradicts this is a slanderer, a deceiver and a stubborn”. This small letter of the aforementioned author sent Imam Shamil when he was alive and took part in the battle that took place in the Chokh fortress in the year.