Before the October Revolution in 1917 Shokay's Family and about 30 of his relatives lived in one village, which was located in 5 kilometers from the station of Sulu-Tube.

Most of the other children in the Shokay family are undocumented, but sources do mention that Mustafa had an older brother named Nurtaza.

Mustafa's mother taught her children to read and write in childhood, helping them learn Kazakh, Arabic, and Persian just as she did.

In their village was a local mullah, who was taught to read the Quran and assisted Mustafa in understanding the Islamic Holy Book.

While his father was in favor of him receiving a higher education and at least partially assimilating, Mustafa's mother feared that he would forget his Muslim Kazakh roots and forever be Russianized.

Moreover, the mullah of Ak-Meshit added to all of this by claiming that the Russians will put him on the cross should Mustafa refuse to give up Islam.

Towards the end of his education, the Stolypin agrarian reform in Kazakhstan occurred, and many Kazakhs became resettled peasants by the Russian imperial administration.

Mustafa moved back to Ak-Meshit, where his family remained as one of the few who did not suffer any dramatic effects of the Stolypin agrarian reform.

However, on 3 July 1907, Tsar Nikolai II issued a decree depriving the electoral rights of the indigenous peoples of Siberia and Central Asia.

Working in the Duma, Shokai met with prominent Muslim political leaders of Russia and became friends with Ahmad Zeki Velidi, the future chairman of the Bashkir autonomy.

In the midst of heavy fighting during the First World War, on 25 June 1916, Tsar Nicholas II issued a decree "On the requisition of foreigners", attracting the indigenous population of Turkestan and the steppe region in age from 19 to 43 years to rear work – digging trenches, despite the fact that the Muslims were exempted from military service due to the deprivation of electoral rights.

Subsequent performances of Kerensky in the Duma with the analysis of the Turkestan uprising against the imperial government policies brought him huge popularity throughout Russia.

Shokay admired and highly valued Mustafa Kemal, a Turkish nationalist who used his stances to found the modern-day Republic of Turkey.

After overthrowing the Russian Provisional Government was declared in Petrograd during the armed uprising on 25 October, the Bolsheviks carried out popular measures for the people in the election-Russian Constituent Assembly of Russia.

In such circumstances, the Kokand government announced its intention to create on 20 March 1918, its parliament by universal direct, equal and secret ballot.

When he was in hiding, Mustafa met his old friend Maria Gorina, whom he married in April 1918, After this event Shokay said:” We called the soviet power then established in Tashkent the «enemy of our people».

I have not changed my view on the matter in the last ten years.”[6] During the following years Shokay wrote and published a book:” Turkestan under the Soviet Union (On the characteristics of the dictatorship of the proletariat)”.

Traveling through the Kazakh steppe and the Caspian Sea, Mustafa Shokay manage to safely arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan, then Tbilisi, Georgia where he lived with his wife of two years, from spring 1919 till February 1921.

In 1923 Mustafa and Maria Shokay moved to Nozhan-Sur-Marn, spoke for the European public with the speech "The policy of Russia and Turkestan National Movement".

Mustafa Shokay was trying to write books, newspapers, magazines; held meeting with his speech for whole world to submit and to hear about the problems in Turkestan and Central Asia.

Detailing the journey of Mustafa's life, he entertained the possibility of creating a union of Muslim states with the help of Germany.

Mustafa Shokay wanted to give some relief and grasped the chance to save prisoners' lives, he compromised with the German authorities.

Later Shokay wrote a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gruppenführer Joachim von Ribbentrop: “Seeing how representatives of the nation, who raised such geniuses as Goethe, Feuerbach, Bach, Beethoven, Schopenhauer, treat prisoners of war ...

All the consequences of my decision, I realize.”[6] Adolf Hitler realized his attempted manipulation of Mustafa Shokay was going to fail; the German leadership decided to remove him.

The official report stated that he "died of blood poisoning on the background of an emerging epidemic of typhus,"[4] he was infected when visiting concentration camps.

They point to the thirteenth verse of the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of John: "There is no greater love than this; that a man lay down his life for his friends.

"[4] The Turkestan Legion army was later granted to Nazi-loyalist Vali Qayyum [uz], a long standing cooperative of the anti-Soviet movement Prometheism.

He was honorifically titled Khan after he had no problem embracing Nazi vision to build Turkic-Muslim army which would fight Soviets.