Imam Shamyl was born in 1796 to a noble family from the Avar people of southern Daghestan. . The difficult spiritual discipline required of him as a young scholar seemed to come naturally, and by his early twenties he was renowned for all the virtues which the Caucasus respected: courage in battle, a mastery of the Arabic language, Tafsir and Fiqh, and a spiritual nobility which left a profound impression on all who met him.
Jazakallah
Jazakallah
