 Dimayev thus went from scribe to warrior, fighting the extermination of his culture and people by actively linking them back to their origins.Just as the leaders of Qadiriyya Sufi orders [32] linked the Chechens back to God via their place in the "silsilah" – a “chain …[of] spiritual lineage” tracing back to the Prophet and ultimately to God [33] – Umar's music served to link Chechens back to both their homeland and the departed, retaining their sense of historical consciousness and therefore their distinctive cultural identity.Raman Paskayev recalled how, as a young boy in exile, his fellow Chechens “would gather at the homes of radio owners to listen to Umar’s broadcasts”.