Omar Al Mokhtar (Lion of the Desert)

Shaikh " Umar al-Mukhtar" was born of righteous parents in 1862 (or as it has been said in 1858). his father Mukhtar Bin Umar was from the tribe of al-Manfat and he was born in al-Batnan in the al-jabal al-Akhdar region. He was bought up in a house that was full of dignity and generosity, surrounded by the high-Mindedness of the true Muslims and their sublime character, which they inherited from the teachings of the sannusi movement , based upon the book of Allah and the sunnah of His Messenger.